Resources: Courses
Courses, Workshops, and Seminars
“Creating Website Indexes,” online workshop of four weekly sessions offered through Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science Continuing Education Program.
“Web
Site Indexing for Freelance Indexers,”“HTML for Indexers,”
and “Indexing Techniques for Web Sites and Intranets”
self-paced online courses offered by Hedden Information Management.
See also course
review article (pdf) republished with permission from Key Words,
The Bulletin of the American Society of Indexers.
“Creating Website Indexes,” half-day ASI conference workshop.
“Writing Indexes for Books and Websites” online course offered through Middlesex Community College, taught by Seth Maislin. This two-month, 30-hour certificate course teaches the basics of indexing, so it is more appropriate for people with a Web background who want to learn about indexing, than for indexers who want to learn about Web indexing.
“Taxonomy and Metadata Conference Call Series” offered by Seth Earley of Earley & Associates. Four weekly 1 1/2-hour conference calls with reference slides, offered every month.
“Basic Online Indexing” (one day) and “Indexing Using RoboHELP HTML Editions” (two days) offered by William Meisheid of Sageline Publishing in Ellicott City, MD. Onsite training possible for four or more students.
“Introduction to Knowledge Base Publishing” and “Creating and using business taxonomies” offered by the Montague Institute, available in Web-based, face-to-face, and on-site formats. Emphasis is learning to create corporate taxonomies, but Web A-Z indexes are also included.
“Web Site Indexing,” revised text of a presentation given by Marilyn Rowland at the Web Indexing Workshop at the June 1999 Annual Conference of the American Society of Indexers.
“Web
Site Indexing with HTML Primer” online course by Broccoli Information
Management. This course is no longer being offered, but contact Broccoli
Information Management if you are interested, for it might be put out
as an e-book.
Although one can create a Web site index with a Web indexing tool and no knowledge of HTML, a basic skill in HTML is highly desirable to tweak or fix an index and to meet client style format requirements.
The basics of HTML can be learned from any of various online tutorials. The following are but a few of the online HTML tutorials available:
- HTML Tutorial on the W3 Schools Web developers' site
- “Getting Started with HTML” by Jukka Korpela
- HTML Cheatsheet on the Webmonkey site
- Web Design Group
For a more comprehensive course in HTML:
“Creating
Web Pages”
offered
online by ed2go,
with enrollment through any one of over 1,250 colleges and secondary school
continuing education programs in the United States, Canada, and Australia.