REGISTERING AND PROMOTING YOUR WEBSITE

This name should appear on your first page (the homepage) and should be incorporated into your website's "title." You don't need to include the words Homepage or Website. 

Podunk Middle School
Grandpa's Workshop
MCSD Instructional Technology Center

The title of each webpage appears on the titlebar of the user's browser.  To add or change the title in FrontPage, rightclick an empty spot on the page and select PAGE PROPERTIES | GENERAL.

Almost every page should include the name of your website in its titlebar because 

• Most search robots use the words in the titles for keywords.
• If someone bookmarks your untitled page, the bookmark will not be descriptive; the title of the bookmark will be a default title of Microsoft or the name of the file.  Somehow, the title index does not tell your user what has been bookmarked!

Instructional Technology Center, Muscogee County School District, Columbus, Georgia

Podunk Middle School, Muscogee County School District, Columbus, Georgia

Your website's address is determined by the rules of the webhosting company unless you buy your own domain. 

http://www.whatever.net/~podunk

http://members.bogus.com/grandpa

http://www.mcsdtechcenter.org

If you give your homepage file a default name, you won't have to include this name in your website address.

If you name your homepage index.htm, your website address is 

www.mcsdga.net/podunk

If you name your homepage school.htm, your website address is

www.mcsdga.net/podunk/school.htm

These words are used in the database search criteria for the information compiled by most of the search "robots" or "spiders."

Enter these keywords into your html code.  This can be done without actually going to your source code.  Rightclick the page and select PAGE PROPERTIES | GENERAL and type the keywords into the keyword box.

You will also type the keywords into some registration forms. 

school, columbus, georgia, muscogee, k12, education, instruction, teach, learn

carpentry, wood, toy, grandparent, child

education, personnel, teacher, benefits

Capital letters and plurals or other forms of these words (schooling, educational, instructional) are unnecessary.

You will have to type categories into some registration forms. NOTE: Different companies have different categories.

k12, schools, education; teaching, technology

personal homepage, children's toys

Search engines will ask for descriptions in different ways, with varying maximum sizes.

Recommendation: Write a basic description of your website. Try to include the words you have specified as keywords.  Count the words.  Below the first version, write a 50-word description. Below that, write a 25-word description.  Then try a 10-word description. Doublecheck your spelling, grammar, and typing.  Save the file in your www folder as description.txt. 

Copy and paste the appropriate size into each registration form as needed.  Also type a description into your html code: rightclick the page, PAGE PROPERTIES | GENERAL.

The website of the Muscogee County School District’s Technology Center provides information about the use of technology for instructional purposes:  a schedule of classes for teachers, administrators, and other staff; technology news and resources (MCSD technology plan, Acceptable Use Policy form for the Internet, Georgia DOE updates; technology conferences); employee email addresses; and over 2500 educational and miscellaneous links, including websites in the Columbus, Georgia, area.  (66 words)

The Instructional Technology Center, Muscogee County School District, Columbus, Georgia, provides resources for technology in the classroom, with over 2500 educational and miscellaneous links.
(24 words)

Instructional technology resources: tips, news, and links  (7 words)