Creating a Web site is not difficult; after learning the basics of HTML and securing space on a Web server, making a home page is a natural progression. There are abundant books and Web-based resources advising how to create stylish-looking sites. In this regard, there is, perhaps, no document more comprehensive or informative than the World Wide Web Style Guide developed for the Library of Congress, the world's largest Web site.

However, because the Web is rapidly professionalizing, Web sites themselves are becoming a distinct technology, indeed almost a science. A beginner's Web site, by comparison, or one that uses borrowed as opposed to original icons, will lack the credibility that more sophisticated and expensive models have. To have a Web-based assignment or learning tool taken seriously by its users, one must combine pedagogical rigor with technical proficiency.