Building Web Pages

This page is to help the students and teachers of Germantown Academy become web publishers.

It includes tutorials for using Dreamweaver., a very easy to use WYSIWYG web page editor; GifConverter, an image format comverter; GifBuilder 0.5, an easy to use animation builder and Fireworks a vector and bitmap based graphic design application. It also includes some important tips on setting up your web site and places to go to find buttons, lines, backgrounds and animated images for personalizing your pages.

Macromedia Dreamweaver

Macromedia Fireworks

Downloading Images from the Web

Comprehensive Sites for clip art

Clip Art About .com

Pat's Web Graphics

Image - Rama

Icon Bazaar Permission is granted for limited institutional use of up to 20 images from these archives by WWW developers representing not-for-profit organizations, governmental organizations or educational institutions. Copyright notification should be included wherever appropriate. Use of more than 20 images requires written permission from Randy D. Ralph.

Gallery of Gif Animations

BigNoseBird - offers a vast resource of coordinated image sets.

Discovery School's Clip Art Gallery - all types of clip art including animations.

Backgrounds

Free Backgrounds

Clip Art About .com

Pat's Web Graphics

Archive of Textured Backgrounds

Great Backgrounds

Animation

Gallery of Gif Animations

Tools

Media Builder GifWork - to edit graphics when editing software is not available.

Corel's Creative Anywhere Design Center - offers a powerful suite of tools to optimize, crop, rotate and apply text effects to images.

Filamentality - here teachers can create, edit and post pages.


Last updated November, 2007

Send comments or questions to Carol Siwinski , Curricular Technology Specialist for Germantown Academy, at csiwins@germantownacademy.org