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School Web Publishing

Traditional Web		Read-Write Web			Online Office
	Create a fully featured school web site on the Internet, or... Create an Intranet site to publish student e-portfolios and teacher resources.			Create & publish internet sites, blogs, photos, etc, with no more than a browser installed on your computer.			Create and store documents, spreadsheets & presentations online, with only a browser installed on your computer.

This page provides information about creating customised websites
using software which is installed on your computer.

School Web Sites		School Intranets
Creating a School Internet Site Plan and create a school web site. Includes information about uploading your site to hosting servers.		Creating a School Intranet Site Create a school intranet site to provide an Internet gateway and a showcase for student e-portfolios. Includes examples and templates for school sites and student sites.
Not-so-big Software Packages		Big Software Packages
For beginners... iWeb (Mac) Part of the Apple iLife suite. Very simple to use, and includes many features previously available only in image editors and desktop layout applications. (You will need a .Mac account to use some of the features.) Sandvox (Mac) Another theme-driven package, similar to iWeb. Includes some unique themes and built-in ftp. Fully WYSIWYG. (See also SVDesignMiner to edit SV templates.) RapidWeaver (Mac) Similar to the above two, providing some "under-the-hood" access for those with html experience. Editing is not full WYSIWYG (switch to preview mode reqd). Includes full ftp. Goldfish (Mac/Win) Similar concept to Sandvox/RapidWeaver, but not quite as intuitive. ShutterBug (Mac) Template-driven site-builder originally designed for photographers to display their work.		For experienced publishers... Adobe Dreamweaver (Mac/Win) This is the "leading" industry package. Used by pretty much all web production houses. Adobe Go-Live (Mac/Win) Probably a limited life expectancy now that Adobe owns DreamWeaver. Expression Web (Win) Microsoft's replacement for FrontPage. Microsoft FrontPage (Win) Now a superseded product.
		Some Free Options
		Getting started for no cost: Komposer (Mac/Win/Lin) A web page eeditor based on the Mozilla Nvu project. SeaMonkey (Mac/Win/Lin) Seems to be a replacement for Mozilla , now that Mozilla development is focussing on Firefox and Thunderbird. Nvu (Mac/Win/Lin) A dedicated development of the Mozilla publishing environment. Free. Mozilla Composer (Mac/Win/Lin) Simple to use, and it is free! Trellian WebPage (Win) Comprehensive WYSIWYG editor.
Embed a Widget
Google Calendar Embed a Web 2.0 calendar in your web site. The calendar can be edited by another staff member using a web browser, without the need to edit your main web site. The new entries are reflected automatically in the embedded calender. Picasa Slide Show Include a Web 2.0 photo album or slide show in your web site. Blogger News Embed a Web 2.0 blog site in your web site. The blog can be updated without editing the main site. FeedSweep Feed your news from a blog directly into your web site. The blog can be updated without editing the main site.
Content Management Systems		Other Stuff
Secondary schools, and larger educational organisations, may want to investigate Content Management Systems (CMS). Much of this software is open-source, and provides the options for multiple editors for different sections of the site. Popular CMS packages include: Drupal Joomla CMS Made Simple Website Baker TextPattern See also: WebYep A compact CMS for the very simple creation of end-user-editable web pages. (Commercial) OpensourceCMS for a wide range of alternatives. Drupal v Joomla Comparison and discussion about which CMS package to use.		Browsershot See what your website will look like in a variety of browsers - on Linux, Win and Mac platforms. CAPTCHA Creator Requests that visitors type the letters and numbers of a distorted image before entering information on a form on your website. Getting Started Tutorials - iWeb Links from our iWeb Workshops. Google Analytics Action Add Google Analytics to your iWeb site with Automator. Integrity (Mac) Integrity will follow all of external and internal links in your web site to check for any dead links. Donationware. Link Sleuth (Win) Checks all of the links in your web site to check for any dead links. Donationware. Position is Everything This site provides some info and work-arounds for those frustrating alignment issues in different browsers. Spry Spry is an Adobe JavaScript-based framework designed to feel like an extension of HTML and CSS, so anyone with basic web-production skills can create next-generation web experiences by adding the power of Ajax to their pages. Weird Characters in iWeb Sites Some older web servers (like the NSW DET web server) display characters like Â, â€™ or other strange Latin letters where spaces and punctuation marks should be, in sites created using iWeb. This site describes how to fix this problem. Word Cloud Analysis A word cloud is a visual depiction of frequently used words in your web site. It illustrates keyword density using font size. The more often a word appears on your site, the larger it appears within the word cloud.
		Govt Policy Information
		NSW Govt Policy Links Includes links to policy documents related to Web publishing guidelines, web site disclaimer docs, etc.