Some Basic Ideas about creating an academic website.
 

1. Legibility is of prime importance. Choose your color scheme carefully.
 

2. If your web site has more than one page, use a consistent background theme
 

3. Include a way to contact yourself e-mail buttons
 

4. Type using a word processor and proofread before cutting and pasting to the website.
 

5. Elements of cutting and pasting. Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V Ctrl-X
 

6. Locating graphics
 

Images: Using an image index like Google http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en
 

Editing Graphics... what you can do and can't do within himestead.
 

Incorporating your bookmarks. http://public.murl.com/m_swanson
 

7. Getting Fancy
 

Free Stuff:  http://www.thefreesite.com/

Washington Post.  (1997).  Watergate 25.
       Retrieved October 1, 1998 from the World Wide Web:
       http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/front.htm
 

8. Documenting your paper
 

http://library.wlu.edu/Documentation/apaweb.html

9.  A New Search Engine  http://www.teoma.com/

10.  Teaching Internet Skills  http://www.virtualchase.com/researchskills/