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Academic Web Page Creation Guide

Course Web Page Templates and Other Examples

Basic Templates

To help you get started creating course Web pages, the Academic Computing Support (ACS) group has created some simple templates. The following links are to hypothetical course Web pages based on the templates (to return to this page use your browser's Back button):

To obtain these templates, you can either:

Or

To use the templates, open them in a text or HTML editor and modify them as you wish. Starting with these templates gives you a headstart on creating Web pages, but otherwise the process follows what is discussed in the Building and Publishing sections of this guide.

Other Examples

Looking at other Web pages is a good way to get ideas for content and design of your own pages. It can also be a good way to learn how to apply HTML to get the effects you want. If you see a page with elements you would like to use, it is generally acceptable to copy the look of the page. You may also copy the content, but be sure the material is in the public domain or you obtain permission from the copyright holder.

To copy parts of a page:

  1. Open your text or HTML editor with a new or existing document.
  2. Go to the browser; from the View menu select Source or Page Source. This opens a new window with the HTML of the current page.
  3. In the Source window, select what you want to copy. Be sure to include all of the relevant HTML tags and coding.
  4. From the browser's Edit menu, select Copy.
  5. Go to your editor; from the Edit menu select Paste to copy the selection into your document.

To copy the entire page to use as a template:

  1. In the browser, go to the File menu and select Save As.
  2. In the Save As box, type a file name under which to save the page. Simplify the name from the default shown.
  3. From the Format drop-down menu, select Source.

In this guide, the Pedagogical Considerations section has links to several examples of MIT course Web pages which are geared to meeting specific pedagogical goals.

Another place to look at examples of MIT course Web pages is Educational Uses of the WWW at MIT. (Note that this list is not comprehensive. It consists only of pages faculty have requested to be listed; some instructors wish to keep their course materials private.)