Writing Portfolio from the Nursing Informatics Learning Center

Editorial Work

Canadian Journal of Nursing Informatics

Editor in Chief of CJNI - an independent, peer - reviewed, online, open, quarterly journal (est. 2006) devoted to the evolution of nursing and health informatics.

Online Journal of Nursing Informatics

Editor in Chief of OJNI - a free, international, peer reviewed publication (est. 1996) that is published three times a year and supports all functional areas of nursing informatics.

Book Chapters

Education for a Digital World

Wrote Chapter entitled: Co-Creation of Content to promote Learning, Activism and Advocacy and designed book cover (2010). Book edited by Sandy Hirtz and Kevin Kelly

Education for a Digital World 2.0

Wrote Chapter 13 entitled: Planning Your Online Course and designed book cover (2008). Book edited by Sandy Hirtz and David Harper.

Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge

Wrote Chapter Three, Computer Science and the Foundation of Knowledge Model for three editions (2009, 2011, 2015). This textbook was edited by Dr. Dee McGonigle and Dr. Kathleen Mastrian.

This minibook is a great introduction to getting fit in a healthy and wholistic way. It includes important information on fitness, nutrition, and stress management, with handy charts to keep track of your progress. (2009).

PhD Work

A Revealing of Nursing Informatics: Exploring the Field...

Site prepared as part of my PhD #2 Comprehensive Exam work at the University of British Columbia, Department of Education, Faculty of Curriculum & Pedagogy Studies.

Nursing through the Lens of Culture: A Multiple Gaze

Site prepared as part of my PhD #1 Comprehensive Exam work at the University of British Columbia, Department of Education, Faculty of Curriculum & Pedagogy Studies.

Cyberart as Psychological Tool

Higher mental functioning such as memory, perception and attention are products of mediated activity. Psychological tools such as art, or specifically, cyberart serve as mediators for this mental activity.

Pathos of Signs/Symbols in Topos Virtualis

The visual is a strong field that demands examination, a place where class, gender, sexual and racial identities are presented and can be debated, distilled and embellished.

The In/Visibility of Nurses in Cyberculture

Within this project, I wish to look at the non/presence of nurses within cyberculture: as interactive participants, web site designers, educators, columnists, and writers within an online environment.

PhD Dissertation Blog

My blog for recording and reflecting on personal, theoretical, methodologial and field notes as I weave my way through this final doctoral process.

MSN Work

The Effect of Soothing Music on Neonatal Behavioral States

This published article was based on my MSN Thesis and quasi-experimental study completed at the University of British Columbia in Fall 1993.

Parental - Infant Reciprocity

This work is from a booklet produced for new parents during clinical course work at a local obstetrical hospital during my MSN studies at the University of British Columbia.

Theory and Informatics Series

Theory applied to informatics: Novice to Expert

This construct theory first proposed by Hubert and Stuart Dreyfus (1980) as the Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition, and later applied and modified to nursing by Patricia Benner (1984) provides a very useful and important theory that clearly applies to nursing informatics.

Theory applied to informatics: Diffusion of Innovation

This theory is often regarded as a valuable change model for guiding technological innovation where the innovation itself is modified and presented in ways that meet the needs across all levels of adopters.

Theory applied to informatics: Lewin Change Management

Kurt Lewin's Theory is a time-tested, easily applied field theory that is often considered the epitome of change models, suitable for personal, group and organizational change. Lewin also initiated social psychology, action research, and organizational development.

Theory applied to informatics: Appreciative Inquiry

AI is a capacity building approach that selectively seeks to locate, highlight, and illuminate the life-giving forces within an organization or community. AI seeks out the best of what is to help ignite the collective imagination of what might be.

Theory applied to informatics: Usability

Since the advent of new technologies, usability must be considered when designing or introducing any technological device: whether wearables, mobiles, laptop, tablet or computer-based or full-fledged organizational systems.

Theory applied to informatics: DIKW Theory

The DIKW theory, short for Data – Information – Knowledge – Wisdom has evolved over the years across a variety of disciplines and is one of the most embraced in nursing informatics and one of the most widely recognized theories in informatics in general.

Theory applied to informatics: The McKinsey 7-S Framework

The framework goes beyond structure and strategy, to find the essence of organizational effectiveness; and is visually presented using a circular configuration with Shared values in the centre, surrounded by the six elements of Structure, Strategy, Skill, System, Style, and Staff.

Theory applied to informatics: Prosci ADKAR Model

The focus of this model is on the individual person, since all successful change occurs at the personal level where people involved in the change move through stages of acceptance and action. These stages include: Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability and Reinforcement.

Social Media and Software Series

Pinterest – A Positively Perfect Web Curation Tool!

Pinterest allows you to create limitless boards on any topic you wish to explore, and it manages all of your boards in one collection under your user name. Over time, you can amalgamate rich collections of websites, videos, images, and other online tools related to your selected topic.

Informatics Trends to watch in 2020

Technology and informatics-related processes and activities continue to evolve with each passing year. As we move into 2020, a few trends in this evolution come to mind – ones that could serve healthcare and nursing well. Here are my predicted top trends for 2020.

Adobe Spark for User-Friendly Web Creations

Adobe has recently launched an amazing web-based software called Adobe Spark. This software is free to use, user-friendly, and produces three types of finished products that look amazing and are easily shared with others.

VoiceThread: Enhancing Virtual Interaction for Dialogue...

Software like VoiceThread can be used in nursing courses to promote multi-sensory ways to respond and reflect on course content (including audio, video, and text). A VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia tool where viewers navigate through the slides and leave comments.

Mahara: a Versatile Open-source ePortfolio

Mahara is packaged as a free stand-alone personal learning system ePortfolio that can be installed and managed from any web site that has the latest editions of php and mysql databases.

Twitter and Nurses: Tips for Tweeting

Twitter is considered one of the most popular social media platforms and offers an unusual micro-blogging approach to sharing with friends, colleagues, and other followers.

Blogs are important Web 2.0 Tools!

Learn how you can apply these easy to use tools to establish a personal link with your visitors, boost your traffic in the process and provide unique content for your site.

Wikis are Web 2.0 Whiz Tools!

A wiki is a special type of web site that allows users to create, organize, edit and shape content in a collaborative way and are great for adding interactive document and content to a site!

Folksonomies boost Web 2.0 Functionality

Folksonomies are inventive and useful tools that can help nursing faculty, leaders, specialists, and clinicians present conceptual models of links, documents and other electronic resources.

Linked In: Like a Virtual Rolodex and More!

LinkedIn connects professionals and promotes networking. It is probably the most valuable social media platform for any nurse informatician, researcher, educator, administrator, and practitioner.

Nursing Leadership Series

How does Informatics support Primary Health Care?

The PHC landscape is a perfect arena for informatics and technology integration. Classic requirements such as access, interoperability, user-friendly interfaces, and inclusion of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) via computers, mobile devices, wearable devices, remote monitoring equipment, and other forms of technology can improve the way we apply informatics to PHC.

Trends in Remote Patient Monitoring

One trend that is emerging from using technology in healthcare is the ability to care for clients virtually in the comfort of their own homes. Remote patient monitoring (RPM) is one offshoot of these developments which can meaningfully serve clients, especially those living with chronic health conditions. An important aspect of successful RPM is that it is ongoing for the long-term where clients feel supported, connected, and motivated.

Highlights of the Shared Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap

Interoperability is a critical goal of virtually all healthcare systems, a literal cornerstone of coordinated client care and effective electronic health records. This spring, Canada Health Infoway introduced a new 100-page document, a Shared Pan-Canadian Interoperability Roadmap (2023) that provides concrete guidance and direction to improve interoperability across this nation.

Reducing the Environmental Impacts of using Technologies

The continual evolution of digital technologies has transformed the way we work, live, and play. Many positive results have been realized by digitization, however there are also some serious issues that contribute to environmental risks.Issues of redundancy, unsustainability, e-waste, and use of rare resources are important aspects of technology’s environmental impact.

Shifting into Recovery – How Informatics can help

A key outcome of the COVID-19 pandemic has been swift digitization of basic and advanced structures and processes across businesses, institutions, and organizations including health and education. It is widely assumed that this responsive infrastructure will continue to prevail in some capacity during the pandemic recovery and post-recovery phases.

Using Virtual Resources to Predict Heat Wave Outcomes...

The health risks of extreme heat are well documented but not well known to the general public. Healthcare professionals at all levels from public health to acute care can be instrumental in shifting the public misperceptions about heat and health risks, and in linking people to tools that can help them self-manage their susceptibility to these risks.

The Rise of Telehealth: COVID-19 and beyond

Telehealth and other digital technologies are becoming cornerstones of Canada’s, the US and global healthcare system’s move to value-based, client-centred, collaborative care. Telehealth is one kind of virtual care that is beginning to make a real difference in client-centred care and in supporting health literacy.

Keeping IT Safe: Cybersecurity for All

October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), “a collaborative effort between government and industry to raise awareness about the importance of cybersecurity and to ensure that all Americans have the resources they need to be safer and more secure online” (National Initiative for Cybersecurity Careers and Studies (NICCS), 2019, p. 1).

Summer Sun Safety: There’s an app for that!

Summer activity health promotion and prevention campaigns have traditionally been done by word of mouth, health literature (pamphlets, flyers, posters, and so on) or via mass media including billboards, television, radio, and more recently, the internet and mobile devices.

#ThinkDigitalHealth – The Message for Nurses

As one of the many health care organizations participating in Digital Health Week in Canada, OJNI, as part of HIMSS invites you to celebrate digital health, which is transforming care and empowering people all over the planet.

Key Principles of 21st Century Change Management

The 21st century is an age of perpetual or continuous change, a fact that can daunt the most progressive leader. I have narrowed effective change down to six distinct principles – principles that all leaders should keep in mind as they manage change within their organizations.

Informatics in the time of COVID-19

2020 has proven to be an unprecedented year in modern history, and it has barely begun! The emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic has caused major impacts on global society, including huge challenges for health care and informatics.

Nursing and Cyber Security Awareness

One important aspect of cyber security awareness is the development of digital literacy. Nurses need to learn to assess their clients’ digital literacy when recommending online resources and mobile device apps, or engaging with clients online via eHealth or through telehealth and EHR platforms.

Exploring the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap

For decades, nursing and health informatics experts have predicted that a primary goal of health technology is to achieve seamless interoperability across all spectrums of the health care system from acute care to community based prevention and health promotion initiatives.

Why Every Nurse needs Nursing informatics Courses

In this day and age, most experts emphasize the need for every nurse whether employed in the practice or education setting, to develop a minimum of a “user” level in computer literacy and informatics theory. To that end, national initiatives have released recommended nursing informatics competencies that every nurse is expected to develop.

The Year of Global Understanding: How Informatics Fits

Global understanding is an important trait for all people living in the 21st century. Nurses can act as role models to help individuals, families, and communities develop their own global understanding. If nurses can learn to capitalize on the potential of technology and informatics, their ability to affect change and solutions will skyrocket.

Why all Nurses Can/Should be Authors

In my mind, nurses need to learn to develop their writing ability and write for two distinct audiences: other nurses and health professionals and the general public. All nurses have robust training and experience in both verbal and written communication. However, few think of themselves as writers.

eHealth and Canadian nurses: Just getting acquainted

The phenomenal growth of eHealth cannot generally be credited to the health care system or health care professionals. Rather, individuals driven by the need and urge to become informed health consumers and participants have catalyzed this new style of networking

Informatics & Primary HC: Reflections on the Biennium

Informatics plays a fundamental role in the promotion of primary health care, through a variety of technologies and processes including electronic health records (EHR), telehealth, eHealth, Mobile health and applications (mHealth), and personal health records (PHR).

Empowering Canadian Nursing's Voice in Environmental Health

The Canadian Nurses for Health and the Environment is currently preparing curriculum resources and learning activities that can be used by schools of nursing to integrate environmental and ecoliteracy content and theory into nursing curriculum.

Share mHealth apps to promote Summer Fun Safety

The lazy, long days of summer are here once again, a time when many people engage in fun outdoor activities. Here are some mobile app recommendations that nurses can share to support summer fun safety and reinforce health promotion and prevention guidance in the contexts of sun, beach and water, food, hiking and outdoor adventures, first aid and poison control safety.

Strategic Management Explored - Business in the 21st Century

In the changing world economy, strategic management processes and principles have to adapt to forces never experienced before in history. With the advent of the information age and globalization, the tactics and strategies necessary for success have become more complicated, sophisticated, and even radical.

The Psychology of Leadership

The observation of the psychological makeup of leaders has taken place within organizations and groups of all kinds for several decades. Different models of psychological attributes and characteristics have evolved just as the practice of leadership has evolved.

Leadership and Work: Life Relations and Issues

Since the beginning of the last century, the nature of work has changed significantly from production to information, knowledge and service. Yet work is fundamentally still structured based on many of the same assumptions used at the beginning of the industrial revolution.

Organizational Management and Generation X

The business world is a constantly changing one, a phenomenon that has become startlingly apparent within the past two decades. To compound these staggering changes, a new generation of worker has come of age, the age group that known as Generation X.

Leadership and Change Management: Navigating the Frontier

Adaptation to change has become a common agenda for organizations of all types - health care, business, social, governmental, educational, and cultural. The later decades of the twentieth century will go down in history as an era of perpetual change.

Virtual Nursing Practice and Culture: Shaping Our Place

The virtual environment is evolving into a context for professional collaboration, content exchange, mentorship and creative endeavors. Cyberspace is becoming an accessible place for the building of intellectual assets, where knowledge can be effectively identified, distributed and shared with peers

Harnessing the Wave of Co-Creation

Co-creation has developed into a buzz-word for corporate and organizational management over the past decade. Essentially, co-creation is interpreted as the process of close involvement of end-users (clients, customers) in the development of services and products, a process that includes the consumer as a vital part of the development process

Nursing Education Series

Support for Nursing Education during COVID-19

The COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 has impacted nursing in many ways, including nursing education. Innovative ways to deliver practice, lab and theory within nursing programs has been championed by faculty and encouraged by licensing and accreditation organizations.

The Promise of PebblePad for Dynamic Learning

The creation of an ePortfolio for nursing takes some thought and planning. PebblePad offers software capabilities that reinforce the importance of ePortfolios in the educational e-scape through its versatile “Learning Journey Platform” interface.

Collaborative Qualitative Research as a Learning Tool

This paper outlines the process used when I organized a research project assignment that all nursing students in my qualitative research class could participate in. The focus of the study was the use of technologies in a hybrid program which offers meaning for the students themselves and for the nursing program in general.

Nursing Students’ Usage of Various Technologies

This research study was done by 29 of my students and I as a collaborative assignment in a BSN qualitative research class. The focus is on the use of technologies within a hybrid degree program. Each student worked on one aspect of the research process as part of a team to complete this study within one semester.

Cultivating Learning e-scapes: A Food Forest Analogy

This conceptual paper focuses on the implementation of a diverse technological landscape within a blended post-baccalaureate nursing program (BSN-PB) in Western Canada. The challenge of nurturing nursing students within a blended program demands innovative and engaged activities and assignments.

Informatics in Canadian Nursing Education - it's time!

As an educator who has advocated for the inclusion of nursing informatics in education since the 1990s, I am particularly delighted to see advances in Canadian nursing education. In 2012, the Canadian Association of Schools of Nursing (CASN) and Canada Health Infoway partnered to create a catalyst for this advancement.

Educreations: A Video Whiteboard Platform that adds life

Educreations is an online interactive whiteboard that allows you to easily create a video-based teaching and learning production that can combine recorded audio narrative, drawing and handwriting tools, imported images, animation, and font-based text.

Moodle: a User-Friendly, Open Source CMS

Moodle is an open source Course Management System used by many schools and individual instructors. Time-tested and continually improving, this software offers a malleable online environment for teachers at all levels to shape into a meaningful environment..

The Integration of Nursing Informatics in a BSN Program

The educator created an integrated thread of learning activities for the purpose of teaching nursing informatics concepts and theories and developing literacy in a variety of computer applications to four year BSN students in Western Canada.

Mental Health Aspects of the Thesis Writing Experience in Nursing

The literature shows a need for more studies focused on the experience of successful completion of Master's theses in nursing and in other disciplines. The essential requirement of a Master's thesis is that it literally demonstrate mastery in the student's sub-field..

Readiness for eLearning

Distance education teachers and planners can help their prospective learners prepare for, or at the least assess their own readiness to learn within an online environment. Research supports that this is a critical consideration.

Tips for Successful On-line Learning

There are several advantages to taking on-line courses and programs, including 24/7 access, flexibility, greater fluidity in combining school with work and family, and the potential for interaction and experiences with other students and teachers from all around the globe.

Use ADDIE to Design Online Courses

Every teacher who designs an online course goes through similar planning steps or tasks. Various models have emerged that offer guidance to teachers involved in designing online instruction. The most common, even most popular model is called ADDIE, short for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation.

Dynamic Dialogue puts You at the Cutting Edge

Open and clear communication in learning is a key to success in the modern world. Dialogue, a strategy for promoting creative, high quality communication is becoming popular in distance learning. The notion of using dialogue to create meaning and share ideas started back in the time of Socrates.

E-learning : The Ins and Outs

The current advancement of technologically - supported learning is a key area of focus for all sectors of the educational system from kindergarten to post-secondary levels. Exponential advances in computers and technology - based educational applications have influenced education in both subtle and sweeping ways.

Online Discussion Forums in Distance Learning

Web based courses can be designed to facilitate learning and interaction using a number of different applications and tools. One popular and effective example of these tools are online discussion forums. Online forums are one of the oldest methods of web interaction, offshoots of the historical web bulletin boards used for almost as long as the Internet has existed..

Learning Theory in Cyberspace

The discipline of education rests on a myriad of learning theories and concepts. Dozens of learning theories and principles can be considered, but a select few are appropriate for distance learning done in an online environment.

Teachers and Technology

Greeted by some with open arms, technology also raises alarm bells in some educators for a variety of reasons. Some are concerned that teachers will be replaced with computers. Others have an adversion to technology in general

Mothers and Distance Learning

The precious role of motherhood is one of great responsibility and challenge. How is a woman to keep up with the demands of this fast-paced, communication-intensive era and still feel attuned to her family and personal self?

Multiple Intelligences Learning Styles Workbook

Dr. Howard Gardner hypothesizes that people are capable of eight unique ways of information processing. Information processing is the person's preferred intellectual approach to assimilating facts, information, and knowledge

Holistic Health Series

The Holiday Season: Healthy or Hectic?

Holiday Season is here again - full of bustling, planning, spending and preparation. For the majority of people, the festivities are a time of family and friends, gifts and celebrations. . It can also be a time of stress, monetary concern, nostalgia and downright depression.

Basking in Nature's Splendor

People are naturally drawn to the great outdoors. A trip to the beach, the park or the mountains relaxes us, makes us feel good. Experts now tell us that this attraction isn't a chance one. We need to be close to nature, and on a regular basis.

Creating Personal Vision

Too many people dismiss their visionary thoughts as pipedreams, as fantasies. But isn't this a spark of life? To feel motivated, awakened, hopeful and enthusiastic about something? To want to grow, to develop, to manifest and create? Vision quickens our health.

Laugh Till It Doesn't Hurt!

We all know how good a deep rolling belly laugh feels. How much fun it is to play and joke with friends. A good comedy show can be a tonic after a hard day at the office. It's been said that laughter is good for the soul. There's now proof that it is good for the rest of us too.

Keep Your Cool When Stress Hits

Stress is a common feature in our modern lives. People from all walks of life feel stress in numerous ways. The most common reaction to stress is the "fight or flight" response. It's automatic. . Yet, you can learn how to control your reaction to stressful situations.

Emotions and Your Well-being

Emotions are a fact of life for all human beings. Until recently, there seemed to be little we could do about our feelings other than express or hide them. Experts now tell us that feelings play a large role on how our body heals and stays healthy.

Work and Family: Finding the Balance

The demands of work and family take their toll on many of us. When kids are involved, the juggling act gets even tougher. A fine balance is needed to deal with it all. Find ways to keep the scales at an even keel without pushing yourself to the limit.

Mind-Body Performance: Get With The Flow!

Whether you are walking, playing tennis or team sports, applying the capabilities of your mind to your physical movements adds amazing force and focus to your efforts - using mental rehearsal, cross training your brain and body, visualization, imagery, and affirmations.

Female Body Image

Body image is a popular topic for health professionals, psychologists, sociologists, and feminist scholars. Through the ages, the ideal female body image has shifted, depending on the status of women in society.

Making Health Resolutions Permanent

Open Source Series

Nucleus CMS - Instant Writing Space for your Web Site

New Year's resolutions are a custom that people have attempted to practice for many years. It is a positive practice that leads people to envision what they might be if they could just stick to a plan of action (which usually equates to discipline) consistently over the coming year

Zen Cart - Add a Robust Commerce Center to Your Site

Zen Cart is a robust open source shopping cart that you can easily add to your web site that provides a free complete commerce center to your commercial web site. It has everything you could possibly want in a shopping cart, and doesn't require a technician certificate to install.

JAlbum - Add a Professional Gallery to Your Site

A unique software, JAlbum is first downloaded to your computer where you add your images off-line, then the program helps you upload the completed gallery to your site through a built-in ftp function.

Moodle: a User-Friendly, Open Source CMS

DotProject - Add an Amazing Project Management Area

DotProject is an easy to use, robust open source project management software that you can use to organize project teams and tasks on your web site.

Drupal adds Community Features to your Web Site!

Drupal is a sophisticated open source content management software that you can use to create dynamic, information rich communities on your web site.

Web Design Tips Series

Designing High Quality Health Sites

Designing a health site is much like designing any other professional site - on the surface. But particular care is necessary to ensure that content is totally reliable and carefully referenced, not to mention 100% accurate.

Designing Small Business Web Sites

When you walk into a store, it is important that you are able to easily find your way around the aisles and locate what you are looking for. The same goes for an online business - you have to make it easy for potential clients to explore the site, and consider what is being offered for sale.

How to Add Video to Your Web Site

It has never been easier to add videos to a web site or blog - the evolution of cell phones, digital cameras, digital video recorders and other portable recorders allow you to easily record digital videos that can be placed on a web site quite easily.

Add Content & Traffic to Your Site with a Blog!

Over the past few years, Blogs have become the rage for many web site owners, from large corporations to personal page sites. Many people use them as an easy way to begin an electronic community about a topic or cause of interest.

Set the Site Mood with Color

Color is a big part of any website's overall message, image, and "feel". A site made with blue shades is going to be perceived differently than one with predominant reds or yellows.

Make Your Sites Air-Tight for Evaluation

We have entered a new wave of website standards and evaluation. Viewers demand that website content, especially on sites that promote self-directed information, is reliable and valid.

Designing Your Site with Traffic in Mind

Several interlocking components of design contribute to high traffic volume. Intuitive navigation, visual appeal, worthwhile content and excellent writing are all characteristics of high volume sites.

Write Great Web Copy!

If you want to offer a well-rounded service to clients, it is imperative that you learn to write well. Obviously, web copy will vary in style, readability level and length depending on the type of site you are working on.

Quality Content: The Life Blood of Your Site!

Great websites have common components. The design, layout, graphics and CONTENT are all carefully created and coordinated. You may have noticed the emphasis on content. Basically, content is presented through one vehicle: writing.

Top-Notch Design: What's Your Metaphor?

Design and layout are intimately linked, but before you figure out how you will arrange everything, figure out the design effect you want. The easiest way to do this is to think of a metaphor.

Design Savvy: It Takes A Practiced Eye!

The skill needed to design sophisticated and tasteful web sites with wide appeal can be developed by practically everyone. A good first step in developing this skill is to observe. Not just look, but thoroughly observe..

Designing for Superb Web Usability

A key factor in a well designed site is a characteristic called usability. Usability simply stated is how usable a site is. It may be attractive yet difficult to navigate. The content may be invaluable but the appearance dull.

Stickiness: Attract and Keep Website Traffic!

There are several activities you can incorporate into your web design to attract traffic. These combined strategies comprise a certain characteristic common to highly visited sites - this is the quality of stickiness

Navigation: The Nerve Center of Your Site

Excellent websites combine well thought-out layout, navigation, graphics and content. Without clear and logical navigation, the most visually appealing site: even those with loads of valuable content, fall short. It is crucial that your visitors can easily get around your site.

Your First Database? Turn Dread to Delight!

YOU TOO can learn to use databases in your web development with skill, know-how and efficiency. You just need to focus and follow the general principles and protocol.

Establishing Concrete Web Presence

The first step in setting up any website involves choosing a domain name. Some websites are added to an existing organizational or company website that already has a domain.

Planning Your Site Structure

The best way to begin to develop your site structure is to make a prototype of the folders and pages that you will include on your site on your computer's hard drive.

Planning Your Site Genre

It is very helpful, especially for the inexperienced web builder to select a particular genre and to stick with it, in order to create a site that reflects the designer's intent.

Planning Your Site Images

Choosing appropriate and legal images can be a fun part of planning your first web site. Here are some tips to help you coordinate your images with the rest of your planned components.

The Internet Self-Help Trail: Prepare for Travel!

The Internet has grown to be a perfect vehicle for self-help information tools. There's a lot out there. So, how do you choose reliable, safe information?