Ichabod Crane Central School District

Web Authoring Resources

Below are some links to resources that may be useful to those participating in our Teacher Website Pilot Program.

Tutorials

W3 Schools HTML Tutorial - Excellent (and fun!) HTML tutorial. We recommend learning the basics of HTML. This tutorial assumes are a total newbie and starts very basic. Give it a try!

W3 Schools CSS Tutorial - Excellent (and fun!) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) tutorial. CSS is what designers use to make their webpages look good. 

WebTeacher - Another tutorial. Covers a lot of ground. 

Top Ten Reasons to Create a Classroom Web Page - For inspiration!

ADA Guidlines

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) "Quick Tips" - From the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), a good place to start with Web Accessibility, with examples.

Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) "Quick Reference" - A more thorough reference. Gives lots of examples.

Software

Amaya - Open source WYSIWYG editor created by the World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium which develops standards, protocols and guidlines for the web. This is the editor that we are currently using at Ichabod Crane. Help with this program can be found in the project's user manual.

FileZilla - Open source FTP client. This is an excellent FTP client that we are using at Ichabod Crane. Help with this program can be found at the project's wiki.

Paint.NET - Open source photo editing software. This is a little like a baby version of Adobe PhotoShop. You can resize images, apply artistic effects, adjust colors, etc. Help with this program can be found at this project's forum. Microsoft's .NET platform is required to install.