Q: I've been noticing these arrow-shot computers -- what's it mean?

A: I became quite frustrated when I started this last year, because most of the on-line info about web page design was for all-text academic stuff, and there was no tutorials or way to learn. So I adopted the arrow-shot, tomahawked cartoon computer "button" to express my frustration, as I brought some learning resources together here which had helped ease that frustration.

Q: And the slicker one on the right? That's a Mac, isn't it?

A: Yeah, PowerMac. Pure envy, that's what. In less than a year, I've done almost 300 web pages here at this site -- on an old 20 mhz (that's SLOW) 386, with a busted sound board, 8 megs of RAM, and a hard drive nearly full. Yep, I shot that Power Mac twice from sheer envy and desire and basic poverty. It really makes me mad to see big website development grants going to people and orgs who do almost nothing with the money and equipment....So I don't wanna hear from you about how you got no resources, eh? Or for that matter to hear about all the neat stuff you got. Learn how to use what you have, and get on with the job!

Interactive HTML tutorial -- Each lesson takes about 15 minutes; There are 23 lessons, some have several parts. Maricopa School District Center for Electronic Learning. Should be every novice starting point. Among the best-done educational softwares I've seen. Maricopa updated its tutorial Lessons now continue beyond the basic 15 to fancy stuff, including a few things I didn't know such as putting color tags into font tags, (viewable with Netscape only).

Downloading the Maricopa Tutorial--You don't have to (and shouldnt) run all these lessons while on-line. Two packages here, for Windows and for Macs, contain all the files. Windows is ZIPped (336K) (use freebie UnZIP) and Mac is BinHEX-stuffed (will unhex itself if you set your software up right, use freebie Aladdin Ustuff gadget). These are actually just HTML-marked text (and the graphics that go into the final thing you'll create). You load Netscape, any plain ASCII editor, and load the first of these lessons into your browser. Then follow each lesson via Netscape, writing your HTML file in your small editor. You can do this off-line, on another computer than the one(s) that use the modem. But test the links you will create by using Netscape's "open file" once you're logged on. Clicking here brings up instructions, doesn't immediately start the download.



Eyeballing Volcanoes is what you'll create (without my Indian signs on it) by completing the12 15-minute lessons of the Maricopa tutorial. Middle or Highschool teachers in Indian schools could use the completed lesson as an extra-credit school science research project. Let us know how it works with your students! By going through this volcanoes on-line science lesson, you can see what the first 15 lessons of Maricopa's tutorial will lead you step by step to build.

The HTML tutorials below are not so good or comprehensive as Hakatai's They guide you through most of the same skills. Content of material you mark up for pages varies from poetry to business . The Maricopa tutorial is the best introduction; the others are good reviews and supplements, and a couple of them are more-introductory, confidence builders, and starters for younger students too.

Web 66: Eight Minute HTML Primer Well, here's 8 minutes for 8-year-olds, perhaps the best confidence-builder start, won't do for real web pages, won't do for computer teachers. This is what 4th, 5th and 6th graders, who have prepared the web pages and projects on the Hillside elemenetary school server take in the way of first preparing them to learn HTML.

• Hillside Elementary School This server (operated by University of MN College of Education) runs 3rd, and 6th grade web pages and points to a 5th grade page run elsewhere. There's explanatory material.

• Web 66: Cookbook--Starts with info on running a Mac Web server (for schools) but also has good info and pointers for individuals. This is the U of MN College of Ed server--they publish several grade school pages allegedly done 100% by kids, grades 3-6. When I observed this, couple years ago, I saw they had almost as many high-paid friendly experts (from grant $) as kids and teachers. You're probably by yourself th reservation or reserve computer expert, good luck.

Lessons on HTML--The computer teacher for the D'zantiki Heeni Juneau, AK middle school Alaska On-line project, that 200 Native kids work on prepared this HTML tutorial for the kids. There are 3 lessons, the last being how to keep on learning more.

• Alaska Online: -- and here's the kids' school web pages project, so that tutorial's been pretty effective for them! Should work for you, and your students.

Home Page Frequently Asked Questions -- CompuServe couple created a personal homepage and have become experts of sorts to individuals doing that. Q and A, tips, links to resources.

HTML tutorial--On-line tutorial from Clarkson University, by William Dennis Horn of their Technical Communications Department. Tutorial will lead you through HTML codes to Web-format poetry--which is difficult.Emphasis is on marking text, using lists

PC Week's Crash Course-- in Writing Web pages (for their staff).--EZ HTML start-up on-line Tutorial for magazine writers who need to learn HTML to create on-line magazines. LINK IS GONE

WWW Developer Resources From University of Washington, pointers to other resources and some of their own. By Developers, they mean Web page creators, but reference some esoterica for mathematicians, too.

Carlos' FORMS Tutorial 1--Learn to write forms to prepare interactive student materials--none of this will work unless the forms processing programs have been set up on the server, If you can do this or get someone to do it for you, here are the front ends for a whole variety of interesting interactive forms.

Web Reference Library: HTML 3.0 and Netscape 2.0. Excellent, professionally-written library that carries current news of interest to WebPeople, and a manual explaining the forthcoming HTLM 3 standards, and their compatibilities and incompatibilities (weep weep, no more BODY BGCOLOR background colors, no more easy <center> tags) Big emphsasis is on nrdly compliance in your markups with forthcoming HTML standard. Because if you don't, when it goes onto your server, your pages won't work any more!

Netscape Frames -- Clearer explanation than Netscape's of the new scrollable frames you can do (viewable only with 2.0+ Netscape browsers). Hurry up and everybody get Netscape 2, I wanna do this! In fact I'm gonna create a Frames Tutorial page just to do it somewhere.

World-Wide Web Tools -- from PC Week's Labs. Mostly not downloadable software tools, but pointers to HTML manuals, style guides, etc.

OneWorld/SingNet WWW & HTML Developer's JumpStation -- Jump from here to many sites having info for page creators.

Dan Connolly (HTML): Working and Background Materials Reference Guide to HTML by Dan Connolly. Includes upcoming version 3 specifications, with important graphics extensions that are now almost universally in use on the web.

Yale C/AIM WWW Style Manual Discusses what is considered fancy at Yale. Actually that turns out to be a quite useless (doesn't help) discussion of forms processing. Not here will you find the NetScape graphics extensions--background colors, fancy fonts, extra layout commands--that I've been scouting out here and there and experimenting with. This is a style manual for old fogeys, concerned exclusively with HTML-text, and viewable by the obsolete Lynx browser.