Web Projects

Composing for the web and making websites can be very rewarding ways to explore multimodality. There are myriad tools available for you to build a webpage at any skill level. This kind of multimodal project really asks you to think about what hypertext means, and how it works. How does the arrangement of text on the web differ from text on a printed page? What does it mean to compose a text that isn’t linear? What effect does design have on the rhetorical situation of your text? Is your website accessible? These are all questions you should ask when you start your project.

Tutorials

• W3 Schools
  Web development tutorials for HTML, CSS, Javascript, etc.
• Learn WordPress
  Help and resources for WordPress
• Google Sites Help
  Help site from Google for Sites.
• Web Accessibility Initiative
  Make your website accessible to everyone
• Usability Blog
  Make your designs user-friendly
• Usability 101
  From Jacon Nielsen’s group

Resources

• Google Sites
  The platform used for your ePortfolio is great for making other kinds of websites
• Wix
  A simple platform for creating a website. No coding necessary.
• WordPress
  Blogging and CMS platform
• Blogger
  Blog platform from Google; use your Ole Miss Gmail account to login.
• Tumblr
  Image blogging platform
• Canva
  Design portfolio and image blogging platform
• Notepad++
  Free text-editor for working with code.
• Free CSS Templates
  Free CSS/page layout themes for your custom website (for hand-coded websites)
• HTML5 Boilerplate
  Everything you will need to start building your website from scratch
• Twitter Bootstrap
  Boilerplate for building your site from scratch.