[Year 12 IT Apps] Possible web creation program for the prototype website and the online documentation

[laurie Savage]

I'll second that. MS has really done their homework with Expressions Web
2. The earlier version couldn't handle PHP and was rooted in ASP
technology. MS actually listened to developers and rewrote it to produce a
good PHP/XHTML IDE and design environment. 4 stars and looking forward to
its next release!

Laurie

>         Hi Bill,
>  I remember playing around with Google page creator early last year and
> thought it was pretty basic, certainly too basic for ITApps, as students
> are expected to know something (but not necessarily everything) about CSS
> and html. It may be suitable for Years 7-8, but the restriction is that
> the website created can only be hosted on the google servers - so it is
> very limited.
>  I have been having lots of fun with the new Microsoft web designer called
> Expression Web (which has replaced FrontPage)  - an extremely powerful
> and fully fledged web design tool which is provided free to all DEECD
> schools as part of the MS package. Like Dreamweaver it gives the
> opportunity of using a Dynamic Web Template which certainly makes life
> easier if you are creating a large site with many pages (the one I am
> creating at the moment has 55 pages *ugh*) This combined with the
> adaptation of some of the freely available CSS Templates makes building a
> smaller site very quick and easy, and certainly within the capabilities
> of most VCE IT students.
>
>  I will be presenting a Session at the VITTA conference called "FrontPage
> is Dead - Welcome to the Wonders of Expression Web" so come along!!!
>
>  Cheers
>  Ros Meadows
>  Bentleigh SC
>
>  Bill Oldham wrote:           Orientation Day Quiz              Hi
> everyone,       Another tool from Google is page creator. Have a look
> here: http://sites.google.com/          What do you think? Would this be
> suitable for ITA?       Regards, Bill Oldham


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