<div dir="ltr">G'day Benjamin.<div><br></div><div>CMS and online web services certainly seem to be the way most small sites are going nowadays. </div><div>The good ol' days of static HTML pages seem to be in rapid decline.</div><div>I've planned to convert <a href="http://vceit.com">vceit.com</a> to CMS several times, but the thought of converting hundreds of HTML pages gives me the willies, so I have a quiet beer and forget about it.</div><div><br></div><div>But VCAA does <a href="http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_study.html#2">publish their 'Software tools and functions'</a> which includes, for websites:<div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px"><strong>Web authoring software</strong></p><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px"><li>cascading style sheet</li><li>edit and format content</li><li>links (relative and absolute links, internal and external links)</li><li>navigation</li><li>buttons</li><li>screen layout</li><li>tagging (metadata tags, alt tags)</li><li>forms</li><li>incorporate images/sound</li></ul><div><font color="#000000" face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="line-height:19.5px">While near the mark, Google sites don't offer <i>all</i> of those, so I guess the answer would be, "It's a sensible idea, but probably not what VCAA has in mind."</span></font></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 9 September 2014 12:14, Baas, Benjamin B <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:baas.benjamin.b@edumail.vic.gov.au" target="_blank">baas.benjamin.b@edumail.vic.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">Just wanted to get peoples opinions on using Google Sites as a web authoring tool for outcome 1 of Unit 3. Has anyone thought about using it or tied using it for that outcome?<u></u><u></u></p>
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