Web+Authoring

**U****se these free resources to create your own web site, html programming not required**
Deusto http://www.deusto.com/ A quick tool to create one page, maybe will be good for young students. FormatPixel http://www.formatpixel.com/ Online publishing tool, free for 512K, creates nice linear portfolios FreeWebs http://members.freewebs.com/ Create your own web site Google Page Editor http://pages.google.com/ Create web and publish web pages Infogami http://infogami.com/ Create a free web page iNetword http://www.inetword.com/ totally online web editor, point and click format Jimdo http://www.jimdo.com/ Create a jimdo free page Joomia http://www.joomla.org/ Free Open Source content management system Leafletter http://www.leafletter.com/ Create a mini website Pagebuildr http://pagebuildr.com/ Create accessible web sites as long as you remember to include alt text. Looks easy but looks like MySpace. Roxer http://www.roxer.com/ Click, drag, done web page creation - easy to use and fun. ZAP!! final web pages are not 508 accessible. in Beta version. Sampa http://www.sampa.com/ Create a website and a blog Sitekreator http://sitekreator.com/ Create a web site with various options for designs. All features are free for 14 days and then account has limited options Springnote http://www.springnote.com/en Collaborative notes and web page Snythasite http://www.synthasite.com/home Beta version, web development and hosting Weebly http://www.weebly.com/ Create and publish your web pages. Easy to create, look great but no place to add in Alt Text. Free Web Authoring Tools (from Tia Palmisano-Davis): http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Web_Authoring/free/

__**Blogs and Wikis**__

 * Wikispaces: http://www.wikispaces.com**
 * Edublog http://edublogs.org/**
 * PBWiki: [|http://pbwiki.com]**
 * Class Chatter [|http://www.classchatter.com]**
 * Wikidot [|http://www.wikidot.com]**
 * Class BlogMeister http://classblogmeister.com/**
 * WetPaint [|http://www.wetpaint.com]**
 * Blogger [|http://www.blogger.com]**
 * Imbee http://www.imbee.com/teacher**
 * WordPress [|http://www.wordpress.com]**
 * Haiku [|http://www.haikuls.com]**

More on Wiki and blogs
WikiHow http://wikitravel.org/en/Main_Page WikiTravel http://www.wikihow.com/Main-Page Blog Catalog http://www.blogcatalog.com/ Blog Directory http://www.blogdup.com/ Teachers First [|http://www.teachersfirst.com]

__**Color help:**__
Super Color Chart http://www.zspc.com/color/index-e.html Visibone Master Color Lab [|http://www.visibone.com/colorlab] Pic2Color http://www.pic2color.com/ Color Chart http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/help/reference/colors/ Color scheme generator http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html Bells & Whistles free tools for web sites http://www.bellsnwhistles.com/

**__Free Templates, Photos and Backgrounds:__**
Free CSS Templates http://templates.arcsin.se/ StyleShout Free Templates http://www.styleshout.com/free-templates.php Free CSS Templates http://www.freecsstemplates.org/ Free CSS http://www.free-css-templates.com/

Free Images [|http://www.public-domain-image.com] Free Photos http://www.morguefile.com/ Pics4Learning [|http://www.pics4learning.com/] Flickr Creative Commons Pictures [|www.flickr.com/creativecommons] Stock Exchange - Royalty Free Pictures http://www.sxc.hu

====Mary Anyomi added the following: Robbins, J. N. (2007). Learning web design: beginner's guide to XHTML, style sheets, and web graphics. 3rd. ed. Seloastopol: O'Reilly Inc. Willard, Wendy (2007). HTML: a beginner's guide. 3rd. ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.====