HTML editors presentation

October 23, 2007 at 2:35 pm | In Uncategorized | 4 Comments

To be updated once I get Bolu’s materials. In the meantime, feel free to discuss. I’m particularly interested in hearing about people’s experiences working with K-12 students as they create or edit webpages. What tools and techniques have you used? What’s been successful? Spectacularly unsuccessful?

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  1. There is an open source web authoring software NVU (http://nvudev.com/index.php). It is based on the Mozilla Composer code. If we don’t have budget to buy Microsoft Frontpage or Dreamweave this could be an alternative.

    I have no experience working with K-12 students to for webpage design. But if I had the opportunity I would start with whatever is available in the school. If they have Microsoft Word then we can start from there. The point is that design is the main focus, not what tool being used.

    Comment by pchu — October 29, 2007 #

  2. I agree related to the design of HTML as the main focus not the tool being used.
    On the topic of HTML editors, the template driven design of many new tools make the web authoring amazingly easy and actually approachable for school-aged children. The HTML editing is becoming obsolete and instead smart interfaces allow creation of HTML based pages without any real know how of the code.

    Comment by Tim McCann — October 29, 2007 #

  3. The first HTML editor I used was FrontPage back in the late 90’s. It was easy to use and didn’t require knowledge of the code. Today, as Bolu showed, there are many different options. Many server based paqckages even come with their own interface to allow the use of existing templates. Look at these blogger sites for example. They are really creating web pages and web content. Microsoft being Microsoft has even renamed FrontPage to Sharepoint Designer and included it with the server application. The bottom line is there are many different products for a user to choose depending on what they are trying to do and what they already know.

    Comment by Michael — October 29, 2007 #

  4. To continue off of what pchu said, there is a new program that continues with the Composer that was in the old Mozilla all-in-one internet suite. This program is called “SeaMonkey” and is available at http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/. The program is all-in-one because it combines Firefox (Web browsing) and Thunderbird (e-mail client). The composer aspect works well but it is obvious that it comes from a free program.

    Comment by dabrace1984 — October 29, 2007 #


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