Tools and Tips
 

Front Page Tutorials:

• The Electric Teacher has excellent tutorials for FrontPage. There is a great index so you can just choose a skill or task from the list and find specific instructions.

Fonts for the Web:

• Verdana, Arial, Helvetica 10 pt (Verdana was created to be a web font
• Times New Roman, Comic Sans, others that are standard may work. 

Color Choices for the Web

• Colors for Webmasters: This site shows web safe colors with RGB and HTML codes as well as combinations of colors that work well together.
• VisiBone's Webmaster Color Laboratory:  This site has a QUICK-look color chart with RGB and HTML codes that are web safe colors.
• Easy RGB.com:  If you have an idea for the main color for your site, this website will help you easily find the tones and colors to complement it.
• Hype's Color Specifier: For those who like all their colors grouped together by shade.
  

Clip Art Links:

• Awesome Clip Art for Kids
• Classroom Clip Art.com
• Cool Text:  make all your buttons and banners here for free:)
• Country Clip Art by Lisa
• Grandma George's Fun and Free Graphics
• Graphic Garden Sets
• Patriotic Clip Art
• School Graphics and Alphabet Graphics by Snogirl
• Vikimouse
• Vikimouse Graphics for Kids
• Vikimouse Alphabet Letters

Tools and Scripts:

• Rollover Pop-up Menu: this script from the Dynamic Drive site allows you to create rollover pop-up menus like the ones Lynne Harvey used to create the new Rolling Hills Elementary School Website.
• Site Meter: this site offers a free web counter service if the FrontPage web counter doesn't meet your needs.
• Java File.com: This site has a wonderful array of java scripts to add the following to your pages: calculators, clocks, special cursors, E-mail forms, mouseovers, scrolling text, and ticker tapes. The ads can sometimes be unusual, so may not be the best site for students.
• Dynamic Drive Java Scripts: To add scrolling marquees, count-down calendars, pop-up menus, clocks, and more visit this site.
• Dōjō the Javascript Toolkit: Check out the see-it-in-action tab for examples of amazing web effects and the scripts to do them.

Free and For a Slight Fee:

• Many have asked about the "very cool" Flash buttons Russ Bird and his students at Mesa Verde are using to create webpage navigation. (See Sundance Elementary School's Site for a fun example.) Russ purchased this service for $32.00 a year from Flashbuttons.com. However, the site also offers the option to create buttons for free! The primary difference is that the free navigation bar you create will include a very tiny link back to Flashbuttons.com after the last button on your bar. You can see a sample on their site.
• Becoming a member at the My Treasured Collection site by Sally gives you access to great backgrounds and graphics for your pages. It is only $10.00 a year and you receive email updates whenever new seasonal graphics are added. It is MORE than worth the small fee per year.