RE: [info-tech] web site
I have Frontpage extensions for Linux installed what are you having troubles with? --John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Donna Bonnstetter Sent: Tue 4/5/2005 2:09 PM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] web site Vicki, I asked our web page instructor write a couple paragraphs about what we do for our web page. Donna Bonnstetter West Bend Mallard We offer a website publishing class similar to Pocahontas. We are currently using Frontpage 2002 because it comes packaged with one of the Microsoft Office Packages. I have Frontpage 2003 and it is somewhat improved over 2002 version but Microsoft chooses to sell it individually for around $100. I'm sure school discounts are significant. Frontpage is easy an program to learn. It is a WYSIWYG program and commands and functions are similar to other Microsoft Programs which many students are familiar with. You need a server with Frontpage Extensions installed to get the full benefits of Frontpage, however. It will work without them. We haven't had any success installing Frontpage Extensions on our LInux server. (Have had a couple professional people try unsuccessfully) We currently buy web space on Northwest Internet Services server so we can use Frontpage Extensions. I still would like to get frontpage extensions installed on our server, so if anyone has any ideas, I would be grateful. Mark Johnson Web Page Instructor West Bend Mallard School --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ - --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by the server02.aea8.k12.ia.us server.] winmail.dat
RE: [info-tech] Web site
At North Kossuth, we design,update,and host our own website on our own server. We use MS Front Page software. Our Web Page Design class usually generates some students who want to keep working on our site. The MS/HS Secretary keeps the site updated with the daily stuff - athletic schedules, student announcements, menu, Board agendas, Board minutes, etc. The Business Ed. teacher also works on more long-term changes - teacher pictures, classes taught by each teacher, etc. I've never learned Front Page, but from everything I am told by the students and staff that know it, the software is easy to learn and use. Brian Ney N. Kossuth -Original Message-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Johnson, VickiSent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:03 AMTo: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.usSubject: [info-tech] Web site I have been trying to learn HTML, ASP for our website. I want something that is more user friendly than ours is. It was set up several years ago and there is one student here that knows the whole thing and I am trying to learn. We are thinking about going out to a website service. Could you give me feed back as to what you do for your website and who your service is with? Thanks Vicki Johnson HS Tech Associate Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Title: Re: [info-tech] Web site I use Pagemill (it came free with most of our G3 macs) -- it is very easy to use and will ftp the new pages to our Windows web server. The only drawback is that it is not very comprehensive. It will let you go to source mode and enter HTML code by hand to get the fancier effects. Bill Day TRV on 3/31/05 11:02 AM, Johnson, Vicki at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been trying to learn HTML, ASP for our website. I want something that is more user friendly than ours is. It was set up several years ago and there is one student here that knows the whole thing and I am trying to learn. We are thinking about going out to a website service. Could you give me feed back as to what you do for your website and who your service is with? Thanks Vicki Johnson HS Tech Associate Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Vicki, We offer a class in website publishing using Front Page. They are responsible for our school website. The students are given assignments and then they save it to an unpublished website. The instructor reviews it and then publishes it to the viewable website. Its not the best website but it accomplishes the dual tasks of being an educational experience and also as the school website. When I look at it and I think it could be a lot better, I hold my tongue for two reasons, number 1, I dont want to do it, and more importantly, we are, after-all, an educational institution. Once in awhile Ill hear a comment about the website from the public about a link not working quite right. I tell them that it is done by students and who are just learning. They understand and are glad to see that students are actually doing the work as part of an educational experience. The easiest thing would be to hire some one else to do it. Our administration and school board chose to have our students responsible for our website, fully aware that it may not be perfect. You may want to visit with your administration and school board about it. As a former educator for 37 years, I would recommend that you take advantage of the educational opportunity if you can. George PS We host our website on our own server. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Vicki Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:03 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] Web site I have been trying to learn HTML, ASP for our website. I want something that is more user friendly than ours is. It was set up several years ago and there is one student here that knows the whole thing and I am trying to learn. We are thinking about going out to a website service. Could you give me feed back as to what you do for your website and who your service is with? Thanks Vicki Johnson HS Tech Associate Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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We do the exact same thing at MNW as George does at Poky except we don't have a class for it yet. Just some kids volunteering most of the time and office workers doing updates. I am going to push it to be maintained by the Publishing class next. They do the yearbook and newspaper and meet daily. Manson Northwest Webster-Home of the Cougars! Brad Kruse (`-''-/).___..--''`-._ Tech. Coord. `6_ 6 ) `-. ( ).`-.__.`) 1601 15th St.(_Y_.)' ._ ) `._ `. ``-..-' Manson, IA 50563_..`--'_..-_/ /--'_.' ,' 712-469-3919 (li),' ((!.-' Fax 712-469-3131 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/31/2005 11:31:57 AM Vicki, We offer a class in website publishing using Front Page. They are responsible for our school website. The students are given assignments and then they save it to an unpublished website. The instructor reviews it and then publishes it to the viewable website. It's not the best website but it accomplishes the dual tasks of being an educational experience and also as the school website. When I look at it and I think it could be a lot better, I hold my tongue for two reasons, number 1, I don't want to do it, and more importantly, we are, after-all, an educational institution. Once in awhile I'll hear a comment about the website from the public about a link not working quite right. I tell them that it is done by students and who are just learning. They understand and are glad to see that students are actually doing the work as part of an educational experience. The easiest thing would be to hire some one else to do it. Our administration and school board chose to have our students responsible for our website, fully aware that it may not be perfect. You may want to visit with your administration and school board about it. As a former educator for 37 years, I would recommend that you take advantage of the educational opportunity if you can. George PS We host our website on our own server. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnson, Vicki Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:03 AM To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Subject: [info-tech] Web site I have been trying to learn HTML, ASP for our website. I want something that is more user friendly than ours is. It was set up several years ago and there is one student here that knows the whole thing and I am trying to learn. We are thinking about going out to a website service. Could you give me feed back as to what you do for your website and who your service is with? Thanks Vicki Johnson HS Tech Associate Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
Re: [info-tech] Web site
Title: Re: [info-tech] Web site I have been trying to learn HTML, ASP for our website. I want something that is more user friendly than ours is. It was set up several years ago and there is one student here that knows the whole thing and I am trying to learn. We are thinking about going out to a website service. Could you give me feed back as to what you do for your website and who your service is with? Thanks Vicki Johnson HS Tech Associate Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vicki: I use Newscape Communicator for our website at LuVerne. I took a class and learned how to make the pages. Once it is set up it is just cut and paste. Al Carr, Supt.
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We use a solution from Global Reach in Ames. All page editing is done via and easy to use web interface. The Global Reach solution allows specific people access to add/change/delete pages only in sections they are authorized for. It does not require any HTML knowledge, if you can run a standard word processor you can add web pages. One of the key features is that as a district you specify the "Look and Feel" of the site. All pages will then conform to the image the district wants to present. All page linking is managed by the web software and is capable of automaticaly removing links when specific data is no longer relevant. So assign the "Lunch" section to the school cooks, "Sports" to the Coach, and so forth. Also included are several "Dynamic Modules" that will allow Calendar of Events, Feedback forms, FAQ, and I believe Discussion boards and basic surveys will also be added within the year. Global Reach presented at our March Tech meeting and as soon as I am able I will publish the presentation. The cost is $160/month signing a 2 year contract with Global Reach. Web hosting is E-Rate priority 1 eligible. I expect that most districts will pay $50-$80 per month for the service once they apply for it through e-rate. There are other pricing options available as well. As a user of the program I have been happy with the ease of posting content to the web site. _Scott Fosseen - Systems Engineer -Prairie Lakes AEAhttp://www.aea8.k12.ia.us/en/technology/_Tech support: Okay, now click your left mouse button.Customer (after a short silence): But I only have one mouse._ - Original Message - From: Johnson, Vicki To: info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:02 AM Subject: [info-tech] Web site I have been trying to learn HTML, ASP for our website. I want something that is more user friendly than ours is. It was set up several years ago and there is one student here that knows the whole thing and I am trying to learn. We are thinking about going out to a website service. Could you give me feed back as to what you do for your website and who your service is with? Thanks Vicki Johnson HS Tech Associate Prairie Valley Comm School 1005 Riddle Street Box 49 Gowrie, IA 50543 515-352-5540 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [info-tech] Web site
At Eagle Grove we have students maintain activities and athletics pages through a dual credit course with ICCC (Fundamentals of Web Design) while the main pages are my Responsibility. The student use DreamWeaver and GoLive. I personally use DreamWeaver and a couple of free WYSIWYG editors that run on OS X. If you were in the open source world, there are some free CMS (Content management software) packages available that are similar to what Scott was talking about from Global reach. They have a pretty steep learning curve, but I think that is one area that we are looking into. Also there was just a message sent out from AEA267 http://www.iowapages.org Which is similar to Prairie Lake's solution, not as in depth, but similar. I truly believe that students should be involved as it gives ownership and it is great PR to show your community that you are teaching technology and can show visible proof of such. Once in a while you get a kid who excels and can teach you bundles also. My goal is to learn PHP and design our site on that. -- USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. ~David Letterman -- Lance L. Lennon District Technology Director Eagle grove Community School District 515-448-5143 --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus on the server aea8.k12.ia.us] - Archived messages from this list can be found at: http://www.mail-archive.com/info-tech@aea8.k12.ia.us/ -
