- Module 1: Information and the Internet:
- A brief History of the Internet from Morse signal till now
- Net Stats: CyberAtlas,
Nua Surveys, CyberStats, Global Stats (How many, who, what for? ...)
- Search Engines, Directories and Human Indexes: AltaVista, ArabVista, Yahoo, Go, Ayna, Mamma, Google, Ask Jeeves, Fast Search, Lycos, Open Directory, About.Com and many others
- Mailing/Discussion lists: Mailing Lists - what are they?, liszt (directory and list server), eGroups (directory and list server), MailBase
Example mailing lists: Al-Awda, Palestine_in_my_heart, ArabForum, Free Palestine, LLP, P-Net, ...
- Web Conferencing (virtual communities, web BBSs and forums, instant messaging, chat ...)
- Media on the Internet: Newspapers:
Palestine,
Arab,
International
- Media on the Internet: Radio Stations online
- Helpful tools: English-Arabic Translation (?), Translation to/from ...
- Newsgroups ...
- Module 2: Web Design and Management:
- Dear Sir, [updated Nov. 30], Dear Palestine, [updated Dec. 1], Dear Editor,
- The HTML Pit Stop - beginners and advanced. Also has related links
- HTML Tutorial in Arabic for beginners (does not cover latest version but it is a good start)
- Interactive HTML Tutorial for beginners (annoying ads)
- Design issues: WPTS (learn good design while looking at bad pages)
- Design issues: Article on page size (average 40 Kb for top 50)
- Design Guides: Learn About Hypermedia Design, Composing Good HTML, W3C STyle Guide, IEEE Style Guide
- Design issues - check/validate: Dr. HTML, 123 Webmaster, Website Garage, HTML 3.2 validator and WebLint (check and rate your site)
- MediaMetrix Top 50 websites
- Site Viewer from AnyBrowser.Com
- Planning and design issues
- Promotion, security and WYSIWYG packages
- Examples: statistics and search terms
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- Module 3: Power of Language:
- Module 4: Editing Workshop:
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