[Opensource] Open Source replacement for Frontpage

[Roland Gesthuizen]

True .. another nice open source system for students to try out is
CMSMadeSimple. Smaller than Drupal but perhaps easier to get their
heads around. We use this for our smaller website projects such as the
3in6 project, ICT Week etc.

If you head down this path, there is a great book about PHP and MYSQL
by Kevork that is worth purchasing to publish these websites. Details
are on the VITTA website.

Regards Roland

2008/10/17 Pia Waugh <greebo at pipka.org>:
> Hi all,
>
> <quote who="Stephen Bloomer">
>
>> Our students are currently using MS FrontPage for web design in many
>> areas.  We would like to go away from this and go to something open source
>> so the kids can continue work at home (and to have one less MS product)
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions for a product that is student and teacher
>> friendly?
>
> I always strongly recommend schools show kids some decent content management
> systems (Drupal, Joomla, Wordpress) as they are more useful to creating
> websites than manual hacking (although all kids should play with basic HTML
> :) I'd also suggest some of the awesome Firefox HTML devel plugins to show
> them how to modify and play with CSS for something more gritty.
>
> Frontpage and Dreamweaver are fine for pretty (although dirty-coded) static
> webpages, but that isn't really showing them anything particularly useful
> for modern websites. Get them into AJAX, JScript, wordpress with the sandbox
> theme, making websites with wikis. So many tools are available :)
>
> Cheers,
> Pia
>
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