Design Resources

 
 
 
Design Resources (brief overview)

Effi­cient Site / Page / Host options:

• UF “Gator­Link Home­page” (for Plaza and Grove accounts)
   
  • Requires Desk­top design/editing of pages then FTP upload.

  • e.g. Mozilla Sea­Mon­key Com­poser (free; Mozilla = Fire­fox devel­op­ers!)
    Adobe Dreamweaver, iWeb (Mac),
    Share­Point Designer / Front­Page (MS Office) or ExpressionWeb

   

  Basic HTML Site exam­ples (using UF Plaza account):
  • F09 LIT 4334 (Cari Keebaugh)
  • S09 AML 2410 (Cari Kee­baugh)
     

  • UF e-Learning (requires acti­va­tion, using GatorLink)

   
   

• Word­press (blog host / soft­ware)
   
  • Basic (”Five-Minute Ver­sion”) Setup Instruc­tions
             (note: writ­ten for my F09 stu­dents)
     

  • Word­press Sup­port section
    Sup­port Forum
            (both of which search-able with key­words).

   

• Google Sites (Google account required)
  • Blog­ger (Google account)

   

• Wiki via PBWorks
   

• Also avail­able: Free hosts with visual/web edit­ing (”WYSIWYG“) — search

 
 
Design Resources
 

• UF CIRCA Lab “Get­ting Started with HTML”
   

• Web­mon­key (many design instruc­tions, includ­ing HTML tags and color chart)
  • “HTML Cheat­sheet”

   

• Color Scheme Designer
   

• Pixlr (online photo editing)
• Pic­nik (online photo editing)
• 3D Text Maker (e.g. Ban­ners, Icons)
   

• FTP (links)
  • FireFTP (cross-platform, using Firefox)

  • Core FTP (Win)
  • Fetch (Mac)