5 Weeks To a Better Web Site - Free Online Course

Online Course Outline

The course outline for this free online course is listed below. This free online course is offered via email one week at a time to make it easy to follow along with.

There is also a link, on the right, to the forum where you can post the address of the Web site you are working on when reading this free online course and questions you may have about the free online course. This is a great way to have other people, who are also taking this free online course, critique your Web site and you can do the same for them.

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At the end of the free online course you will receive an award to place on your site stating that you have finished this free online course. You can post a link to your new site on the forum and/or send me the homepage address and I will add a link to it on this site so other people can view your masterpiece that you created using this free online course.

5 Weeks to a Better Web Site 101 Free Online Course Outline

• Lesson I: Organizing Your Site
  
  
  • Page Editor (WYSIWYG vs. Text) and
    
    learn HTML with "HTML 101"
    
    
  • Free Home Page Hosting and
    
    How To Sign up With About
    
    
  • Layout: Main Page, Biography Page, Today's Entry, Archives
    
    
  • Assignment 1
    
    
  
  
  
• Lesson II: Main Page
  
  
  • Choosing a Title For Your Diary
    
    
  • Choosing a Design and Layout
    
    
  • Writing a Description of Your Diary
    
    and a Welcome Message
    
    
  • Linking to Entries and
    
    Other Pages On Your Site
    
    
  • Assignment 2
    
    
  
  
  
• Lesson III: Biography Page
  
  
  • Choosing a Design
    
    
  • Tell about you
    
    Don't forget to mention if you are a male or female and what country you are from.
    
    
  • Where to link to and from
    
    Should you link to your entries from here? Should you link to this page from your entries?
    
    
  • Assignment 3
    
    
  
  
  
• Lesson IV: Today's Entry
  
  
  • Choose a Design
    
    
  • Writing Styles
    
    Tell the truth or keep it safe?
    
    
  • Where to link to and from
    
    Should you link to other pages from here? Should you link to your entries from other pages?
    
    
  • Adding Pictures
    
    
  • Assignment 4
    
    
  
  
  
• Lesson V: Archive and Promote
  
  
  • When To Update (daily vs. weekly)
    
    
  • How to update (moving links around)
    
    
  • Promote Your Site
    
    
  • Assignment 5
    
    

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