Setting up a subject home page is not necessarily very difficult, or very time-consuming. Setting up - and maintaining! - one which is at least satisfactory, and perhaps even useful, is likely to be both.

I have set up three subject home pages, and maintain two. These are primarily as repositories of resource materials - email, no interactivity, no chat rooms, very simple.

The documents that make up the pages are either very simple HTML pages, mainly used to provide links; or documents to be downloaded (PowerPoint and/or Word); or HTML versions of the downloaded documents, so they can be read easily within the student's browser. To add documents to the web site involves:

* creating or editing one or more link pages

* creating or editing documents in Word or PowerPoint

* creating Word equivalents of PowerPoint presentations

* translating these documents into HTML

* transferring the file to the server

* checking the results

These activities involve the use of a variety of software, both separately and interactively. The process is usually time-consuming, frequently intricate and often frustrating. It can be intriguing and rewarding.

This presentation will demonstrate the process of producing documents and transferring them to the server.