[Year 12 IT Apps] Web Authoring Software

Fri Nov 25 14:46:01 EST 2011

Thanks Robert & Michael, 

I missed this while looking at my options.
(although we did do it this year as we used dreamweaver.)

Ok, the paid version of www.yola.com enables custom css scripting.

However, even the basic version creates CSS for the site when you've
designed it.  Does this meet the criteria? the software is producing CSS and
students change the CSS when changing the site's appearance, they simply
can't change the code directly.

I take this to be the same as using Access to create queries.  In access,
you are not writing the SQL query, just the query condition.  Am I
stretching this too far?

Thanks for all your help and advice.

Cheers,

Adric

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On Behalf Of Michael Torsello (Mr)
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 2:13 PM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 IT Apps] Web Authoring Software

Adric

>From the VCAA support materials:
http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_study
.html#2

<http://www.vcaa.vic.edu.au/vcaa/correspondence/bulletins/2010/July/vce_stud
y.html#2> IT Applications: Tools and functions 2011
As published in the VCAA Bulletin, July 10, pp.5-6.

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

This is the minimum expectations at Units 3 / 4. Worth looking at for other
software too.

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On Behalf Of Adric Gardner
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 2:00 PM
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>From what I have seen, they entirely meet all of the Key Skills.

There is no mention of CSS or even html in the study design in any of the
Units.  The closest is:

.        functions of web authoring software used to manipulate data

and 

.         functions, techniques and procedures for efficiently and
effectively manipulating data using web authoring or multimedia authoring
software.

The only mention of style sheets in the entire IT study design document
refers to the problem solving methodology.

Can you let me know if I've missed something please.

Cheers,

Adric

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On Behalf Of Mann, Warrick D
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 11:31 AM
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Hi Adric,

My question on using these tools would be, do they meet the Key Skills
requirements for students? Such as CSS.

Cheers

Warrick

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On Behalf Of Adric Gardner
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 11:01 AM
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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

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On Behalf Of Brett Groves
Sent: Friday, 25 November 2011 9:49 AM
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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 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

1091_LOGO_S_COLOUR (1)

Ashwood College

Vannam Drive

ASHWOOD 3147

Ph: (03) 9807 1333

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