New South Wales
Country Areas Program
Resources for the Classroom Teacher

Web Building Tools
Just a small sample of the sites on the web offering free web building tutorials and resources.

BUILDING WEB SITES etc TUTORIALS
FREE CLIP ART, ANIMATIONS, SPECIAL EFFECTS

Building a Basic Web Page
A simplified version of Claris HomePage 3 built-in help tutorial.

FRONTPAGE TUTORIALS PC

FRONTPAGE 98 & 2000 TUTORIALS
Excellent Tutorial for PC users.

BEGINNERS FRONTPAGE TUTORIAL
easy to follow with lots of screen shots. Great for the first time web builder!

CREATING SCHOOL WEB PAGES WITH FrontPage
simple, easy to follow steps

Dreamweaver Tutorial for those who are thinking about creating a new (or their first?) website.


chami.com - a fantastic site, just FULL of tips, ideas, freebees, tutorials - everything you mkight ever need to build a website and more!

NSW DET - Learning Centre
The DET's help centre for schools wishing to creat webpages. Excellent tutorials and links to almost all you'll need.

Creating Web Pages (Introductory Level) Theme Page

Wired Monkey - caters for Beginners, Builders and Masters.

All Free Clip Art
As well as the graphics this site has simple but useful tutorials on...
Effective Banners, Image Maps, Image Mouse Overs, Marquees, Preloading Graphics

Website Abstraction
some basic stuff here but more for the advanced web builder looking for that "extra" pizazz

How to use HTML Meta Tags
Meta tags can also help you provide keywords and descriptions that some search engines use to find and identify your page.


Tutorialized.com - a site mainly for the more technical especially those involved with web building. Excellent source for high school students. There are currently 3,413 Free Tutorials in 364 categories!


Downloading FREE Music

Need some free, (and copyright free) music to jazz up your webpage or add impact to your digital movie?
freeplaymusic.com offers a large range of FREE music for you to download. You can search the music available in anumber of ways including by style (rock, jazz, country etc) or by feel (romantic, suspense, sad, happy etc). Selected music can be downloaded as an entire piece or just a few seconds (10,15,20). You can listen on site before downloading to you harddrive.

TIP: Mac users - to download the music hold the control (ctrl) key down when clicking on the selection. Windows users use the right mouse button. 


MAC OSX USERS! create a page with thumbnail pictures and links to full sized pictures in less than a minute with iPhoto.

  • Simply open iPhoto and select the photos you wish to display, choose EXPORT from the File Menu and then export to webpage.
    Complete the info required (eg how many columns/rows) and within seconds you will have a page of thumbnail photos plus a link to a page for each photo full sized. You can then edit each page in your usual html builder.
  • PC USERS - do the same using PHOTO STORY a free download from Microsoft (XP only)
 Foto Search Royalty Free Image Library offers over 700 thousand royalty free images in its extensive online archive, including photography, clipart, illustrations, video clips, vector maps, and background clip art imagery.  It offers your users the opportunity to view world-class photography free of charge.  It is the digital, online equivalent of a conventional Art Museum.  Browsing through the library is free, and there are no access charges, registration requirements, or usage limits.

FREE EDUCATIONAL PICTURES
Belgium teacher, Mike de Kievith has a free site where you can download and print +- 1000 educational pictures for primary school.
The URL: http://www.edupics.com


freestuff

Hassle-Free Clip Art
http://www.hasslefreeclipart.com/cart_people/page1.html

Clip Art Connection
Massive resource for all types of clip art and digital imagery.

The Classroom Clip Art
Animated gifs, Pictures, Backgrounds, Dividers, Buttons,Graphics Software

Buttons - great site to find web buttons! FREE

Teacher Files - Educational Clip Art

Barry's Clip Art Server
Here you will find thousands of images, all free for you to download.

Clipart for Students and Teachers
Great source with heaps of indexed links to help you find the clipart you're looking for.

Absolute Background Textures Archive - Now with 3636 seamlessly tiling, attractive background textures for use in web pages, graphical software or on your desktop. Sorted by color and motif. Includes previewing feature with sample text of various colors

TwoNicknames gifs - there are heaps of gifs (animated ones too) on these pages. Easy to navigate!

Microsoft Office Clip Art and Media
This has been around for a long time and somehow escaped being added to our collection. Well here it is...a huge assortment of clip art and media (sounds, clip art, photos, and animation). Use the broad subject area or search by key word. Once you find the media you want, simply copy and paste the clip wherever you want it, or drag it into your Microsoft document. Or, click the thumbnail of the clip and drag it to the place in your document where you want it. If you think you may want to use the clip again, you can download it and add it to Microsoft Clip Gallery or Microsoft Clip Organizer. Tons and tons of clip art on a wide variety of topics make this a winner.


ANIMATIONS

Free Gifs and Animations
Everything needed to build or enhance your website! Including Free Counters, Free Homepages, Free Guestbooks,Meta Tags

Animated Gif Finder - another GREAT FREE site! 1000's of animated gifs.

MediaBuilder - Free Online Image Tools! Use our online tools to instantly make 3D banners and buttons online, and to optimize your images so they will download faster!

2Cool Animations
2Cool Animations animated gifs archive has one of the largest collections of animated gifs on the internet. More than 20,000 Animations, Clipart and Backgrounds.

Best Animations
Best Animations is a collection of free animated gifs found on the web.Except where indicated with an asterisk all animated gifs are believed to be free to use


A simple search using Google or any other search engine will locate many more sites for you to explore.

HAVE FUN

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