Task Four: Setting up a webpage
You are going to need a website to bring all your files together. By now you should have a blog, a podcasting point and a photo storage site. You need a place to bring all these together, and a website would be an excellent way to do this. So brush up on your web page building skills and think about creative ways to bring all your media files together. You should set up a web page for an example city. You could choose your home (or departure) town and set up a complete web page with links to your blog journal, some audio podcasts and some of your photos. This first site should act as a template for every other city.
Student Activities:
- Choose a web hosting site. Keep in mind that one may come with your home internet access. Make sure that you choose a place that allows for enough disk storage.
- Get used to a good HTML page editor so you are prepared to edit your site from your laptop as you travel.
- If you have files that can’t be hosted on any of the blog, podcasting or photo sites figure a way to add them to your website. Given you have all these files in different places be sure you have a way of keeping track and organizing them all.
- Bringing all these different media together is going to be a big challenge so invest some time in figuring out how it is all done.
- You may even consider using some mapping software as your home page and build other pages that are linked to from the map.
Associated Links:
· Free webhosting - http://www.bravenet.com/
· Free webhosting - http://members.freewebs.com/
· Website building tutorials - http://www.w3schools.com/default.asp
· HTML tutorials - http://www.webmonkey.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/
· Program google maps - http://www.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/