Web Authoring and Publishing

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• Web Authoring and Publishing

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• Some key features of Publisher for web authoring
• A wide selection of design templates with
  built-in internal hyperlinks quick, easy to use
  
• Alternatively, from a blank template, design
  objects can be inserted
• Other Office applications (Word, PowerPoint,
  Excel) can be easily integrated into the
  Publisher web pages through object linking
• Pages can be regularly previewed in a browser
  during authoring to check web layout and
  functionality
• Web pages can be turned into DTP documents with a
  common style (and vice versa, especially in
  Publisher 2002)

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• Some important considerations
• Try to appreciate that there are more limitations
  to the layout of text and graphics in a web page
  than there are in a DTP document
• This also limits DTP-web transformation
• Work within tables and frames and do not overlap
  text and images
• Consider your target audience and avoid excessive
  image or multimedia content where home or low
  bandwidth access is essential
• Use the Design Checker and Web Page Preview to
  optimise layout and file size and ensure
  functioning of links and media content
• Inform your ISP or web site host if your site
  includes a form this needs a processing script
  on the server

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• Adding moving images and functionality to your
  web pages
• Do a web search for Animated GIFs (or click
  this link for GifsNow)
• These are the simplest form of animation and can
  be downloaded and inserted to make your web site
  lively (although take care to retain some dignity
  if this is part of your school site!).
• When you become more accomplished you can also
  search for Javascripts and Java Applets for
  functioning website components and special
  effects , although more skill is needed to insert
  these into your site

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• Activities in TTTF Module 6
• Exploring school web sites - see Module 3
• Planning web sites - especially essential for
  pupil work and a useful collaborative group
  exercise
• Creating web sites - follow these steps very
  carefully remembering to Save and use Web Page
  Preview regularly.
• Consider the pros and cons of Publisher for
  creating web pages