Web Design Help Sites
(compiled by Kevin Jarrett on the EDTECH list-serv)

HTML Crash Course for Educators
http://www.edwebproject.org/htmlintro.html
Quick introduction and orientation to using html to create web pages.

Mrs. P's Web Design Tutorial & Resources:
http://cfbstaff.cfbisd.edu/paciottib/webdesign/wdhome.html
This outstanding collection of tips and resources was created by Barbara Paciotti, School Library/Media Specialist at Barbara Bush Middle School in Irving, Texas. Clean and complete, it clearly lays out the process from start to finish, highlighting the tools and techniques you need to get a first-class web site up and running. Nice work!

HTML Goodies:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/
Though I find this site somewhat busy design-wise, it's Non-Technical Intro is excellent, and the primers are very good too. The tutorials are organized more like an index, in an attempt to make it easy to find what you are looking for. So start with the Non-Technical Intro, move on to the primers, and get busy!

PageTutor.com:
http://www.pagetutor.com/
Definitely a great site, though it's got popups and advertising, so you'll want to be careful about those (can't knock the site, someone has to pay for the bandwidth). The Bare Bones Guide to HTML is as good as any tutorial I've come across. You'll have to register - and pay - for some of the site's features, but only if they are the ones you feel you need. There is a lot of good, free information on the site.

DRAAC.com:
http://draac.com/
This site is very busy and loaded with ads (integrated, not popups) but does have some cool features. I particularly like the "HTML Test Bed," which can be used to illustrate HTML concepts quickly. Quoting from their About page, "We are a group of young kids that have a passion for changing and fixing our cars so we got together a small group of people that share our interest and have now formed Team-Dynasty=85 hopefully it will grow and become stronger as we go on." Well, OK then! Cars and websites, perfect together!

Wired.com Webmonkey for Kids
http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/kids/lessons/index.html
This site nice step by step tutorial designed expressly for kids.
What's that? You like it too? Don't worry, I won't tell anyone. :-) The
"SitePal" talking banner at the top of the screen is kind of annoying (even though the technology is extremely cool).

Writing HTML: a tutorial for writing web pages
http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/
The Maricopa Center for Learning & Instruction (a Maricopa Community
College) created this free, straightforward, comprehensive guide to help new web developers get started. It's light on graphics, which I like, and gets right to business, which I also like.

NVU - the Free Web Editor:
http://www.nvu.com/
No discussion of website design would be complete without mentioning the actual software you need to build a site. Yes, you can use Windows Notepad and write bare HTML, and while that's a good way to learn the language, serious web developers use serious software. If you don't have the $ for Dreamweaver, NVU is an excellent, completely *FREE* open source solution with many if not all of the features and functionality of Dreamweaver. Heck, it even looks similar! Download it. Install it. Run it. Own it. Free. Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.