[Year 12 IPM] Web Editors

Laurie Savage sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au
Thu Mar 2 13:54:37 EST 2006


I used to use the older version. It's much faster than the Java version. 
Is there a link to it on the website? If there is I can definitely 
recommend it, its very configurable.

BTW: I like the author's CareWare concept, very green, very new age, but 
very reasonable!

Laurie

Robert Hind wrote:
> And you can still get the older Arachnophilia, Ver 4.0, that is a 
> Windows app. The Java version is different in operation and also, on 
> some machines, is very slow due to the need to interpret the Java.
> 
> I am an Arachnophilia phan.
> 
> Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
> Ex Traralgon and Ashwood
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Laurie Savage" <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
> To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
> Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:05 PM
> Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Web Editors - was Hover buttons in Frontpage
> 
> 
>> Sure Keith!
>>
>> I guess I like Dreamweaver best. I use its coding editor much more 
>> than its WYSIWYG page since I'm moving to semantic web authoring. My 
>> favourite features in DW are its template creation tools and the Site 
>> Manager.
>>
>> Other (Windows) tools I've tried are:
>>
>> HTML Kit
>> which is very powerful and FREE. My weaker students find it confusing.
>>
>> Notepad
>> is free and works but of course does not support tag highlighting or 
>> editing. There are some cool Notepad replacements which do. I focus on 
>> Notepad for my year 11 students. Since they all have Internet access 
>> I've set them the task of identifying how to create and then upload 
>> pages to their families' web spaces.
>>
>> Arachnophilia
>> has good features, is free and written as a Java application
>>
>> And when I'm working in Linux - good old Emacs with its html-helper mode!
>>
>> I've made a CD for my students with OpenOffice 2, Firefox, 
>> Thunderbird, HTMLKit ad CoreFTP - all legally free.
>>
>> Laurie
>>
>> Keith Richardson wrote:
>>> Hi Laurie - could you please start a thread about the web page editors
>>> you like to use and why?
>>> I am sure that many of us would appreciate hearing from the various
>>> experts and experiences of those of us less experienced in the
>>> vagarities of website creation. U3O2 is staring many of us in the face,
>>> so all help will be most useful!
>>> Ciao, Keith
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:50:30 +1100, "Laurie Savage"
>>> <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> said:
>>>> Understatement! Even though FP sites can look nice and are easy to 
>>>> produce I use Frontpage to illustrate to students how to create bad 
>>>> pages that cost an enormous amount to serve and are written with no 
>>>> regards to standards or conventions. Ever tried to extend and 
>>>> upgrade a site written with FP?
>>>>
>>>> Andrew Shortell wrote:
>>>>> Yes there is a definite glitch in front page
>>>> -- 
>>>> Laurie Savage
>>>> =============================================
>>>> Student Assessment, Reporting and Tracking
>>>> Pascoe Vale Girls College, 03 9306 2544
>>>> Lake Ave, Pascoe Vale, Victoria, 3044
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>> -- 
>> Laurie Savage
>> =============================================
>> Student Assessment, Reporting and Tracking
>> Pascoe Vale Girls College, 03 9306 2544
>> Lake Ave, Pascoe Vale, Victoria, 3044
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-- 
Laurie Savage
=============================================
Student Assessment, Reporting and Tracking
Pascoe Vale Girls College, 03 9306 2544
Lake Ave, Pascoe Vale, Victoria, 3044
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