Useful links

General

• Making teachers feel contented with online courses
  levabramov.netfirms.com/pages/Turkey.htm
  This article surveys student satisfaction with an online course. LA e-Learning Centre, Teachers Develop Teachers Research Conference, September 2001.
• Finding quality web sites
  www.dartmouth.edu/~webteach/articles/sites.html
  Sarah Horton, Dartmouth College, wrote this helpful article for teachers and Course developers in choosing relevant web resources for learning. Some good strategies and evaluation techniques are listed. 3 January, 2001.
• Constructivist Learning in a Hypertext Environment
  www.accesswave.ca/~hgunn/special/papers/hypertxt/conlearn.html
  Technologies to keep students active, collaborative, intentional, complex, contextual, conversational and reflective.

Developer Resources

• Bookmarklets - free tools for power surfing
  www.bookmarklets.com/tools/categor.html
  Bookmarklets are simple tools that extend the surf and search capabilities of Netscape and Explorer web browsers. Bookmarklets allow you to do things like modify the way you see someone else's webpage, extract data from a webpage, search more quickly and in ways not possible with a search engine and navigate in new ways.
• HTML TIDY
  www.w3.org/People/Raggett/tidy/
  'Dave Raggett's HTML TIDY is a free utility for fixing HTML mistakes automatically. It also works well on the atrociously hard-to-read markup generated by specialized HTML editors and conversion tools. And it can help you identify where you need to pay further attention to making your pages more accessible to people with disabilities.'

Browser issues

• AnyBrowser.com
  www.anybrowser.com/
  Its main aim is to ensure that any browser can view your website. It also has links to other useful tools e.g. link check, HTML validation, screen size tester.

Colour

Using colour on the web is not an exact science. To find out more about colour, visit:

• Pixeur 1.1.0.1
  www.topshareware.com/Pixeur-download-15499.htm
  With Pixeur you can easily view the color, RGB, Hex, and Long value of any color you see on screen.
• Color schemes generator 2
  wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html
  This tool will find a set of color schemes and palettes to create good-looking and well balanced and harmonic web pages.
• Webpage design for designers
  www.wpdfd.com/wpdgraph.htm
  The graphics and palettes page provides a good introduction to colour on the web, graphic formats suitable for the web, compression and colour theory.
• lynda.com
  www.lynda.com/
  lynda.com presented one of the very early web-safe palettes. The site also houses some useful sample video files on how to use some major pieces of software such as Dreamweaver.
• Color Matters
  www.colormatters.com/entercolormatters.html
  Color Matters provides an excellent launchpad to a variety of colour topics.
• Netcue's colour converter
  www.netcue.com/color/RGBcoverter/rgb.htm
  For those people who need to convert decimal colour codes to hexadecimal codes.