[Year 12 IT Apps] Web Authoring Software

Thu Dec 1 14:06:49 EST 2011

Hi Adric,

I'm a bit late coming to this conversation, but I was thinking of using Drupalgarden or Wordpress, I think they might meet the criteria for this outcome. I haven't tried Yola or Weebly. The Study Design describes authoring software being

"A category of software that enables users to create multimedia and web solutions without the need to write programming code. The software generates the code required to run the application created."

And in addition

"Students use web authoring software to create prototype websites for particular online communities, taking into account both technical and non-technical constraints."

The bulletin adds

Web authoring software

• cascading style sheet

• edit and format content

• links (relative and absolute links, internal and external

links)

• navigation

• buttons

• screen layout

• tagging (metadata tags, alt tags)

• forms

• incorporate images/sound

I might be being legalistic, but none of this necessitates a standalone, desktop application ... does it? The one hurdle might be authentication, but I can see ways around that by confining the assessment task to an unseen one or two period task.

Laurie Savage

Pascoe Vale Girls College

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From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] on behalf of Adric Gardner [gardner.adric.a at edumail.vic.gov.au]
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 11:01 AM
To: 'Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List'
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Web Authoring Software

Yes, thanks for that Brett.

I’ve looked at Kompozer (and seamonkey, coffeecup and some others)

I would strongly recommend people take a look at Web Plus (by Serif) from a design perspective
(There is a free starter version available).

However, I come back to my main question.  Would a web based tool such as Weebly or Yola be considered a Web Authoring Tool for the sake of the study design?

Cheers,

Adric

From: itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:itapps-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Brett Groves
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 9:49 AM
To: Year 12 IT Applications Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Web Authoring Software

Weebly is probably the easiest thing around if students were creating, say, an online help site. ie if the focus was the content and not the creation. If you were looking to focus on  actual web design then I use Kompozer, it's FOSS, super easy to use and deceptively powerful with just a little css/html/javascript knowledge. It also contains none of the ExpressionWeb/Dreamweaver extras that I never use anyway

Regards,

Brett Groves

ICT Manager

Croydon Secondary College

On 25/11/11 00:21, Adric Gardner wrote:
Hi Guys,

I’m considering a move away from Dreamweaver next year as I believe it is overly complicated for what they need to achieve.

I’m considering a move to something like www.yola.com<http://www.yola.com> which is an online drag and drop website creation tool.

What I wanted to know is whether other people see this as a ‘Web Authoring Tool’ for study design purposes like I do.

Cheers,

Adric Gardner
Yellow House Leader

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Ashwood College
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