[K12OSN] Web Site Authoring Suite

[Rob Owens]

I recently tried Mozilla Composer to make a simple website and I found it to be very easy.  I learned how to use it in about 5-10 minutes (I have previously made simple web pages by hand-coding the html).  

Click on "insert image" and it lets you browse to the image you want to insert, then it allows you to make the image a link, and so on.  As for the text, it works pretty much like a word processor in the way it allows you to change fonts, font size, etc.

-Rob


 --- On Mon 11/01, Debbie Schiel < debbie at redeemer.qld.edu.au > wrote:
From: Debbie Schiel [mailto: debbie at redeemer.qld.edu.au]
To: k12osn at redhat.com
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 11:18:16 +1000
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Web Site Authoring Suite

Something that I've introduced to some friends is Netscape Composer.<br><br>It's very basic and easy to use. Set up the publishing (ftp) details for <br>them and all they then have to do is navigate to the page they want to <br>edit and then click 'edit page' in the file menu. This brings up <br>composer and once they've made their changes they click publish.<br>No code seen, very easy for technophobes!<br><br>"Netscape Composer is an easy-to-use tool that makes creating HTML-based <br>documents as easy as writing a memo with a word processor.... Like a <br>word processor, Composer uses fonts, styles, paragraphs, and lists, and <br>includes an integrated spelling checker."<br><br>http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp<br>http://ftp.netscape.com/pub/netscape7/english/7.2/unix/linux/netscape-i686-pc-linux-gnu-installer.tar.gz<br><br>Scott Sherrill wrote:<br>>> Hello all,<br>>>    One of the many hats I wear at my school is that of Webmaster. In <br>>> the past I!
've always hand-coded the site in a text-editor, and that <br>>> works well for me.  But, I'd like to allow my teachers and student <br>>> organizations to create and maintain their own Web pages. Since most <br>>> of them don't have any idea how to code in HTML, I'm looking for <br>>> something that will allow them to easily create and maintain their own <br>>> pages with little or no access to the actual code.  I've looked at <br>>> PHPWebsite, but I can't seem to make it work (I don't know how to get <br>>> the MySQL database working properly).  Can anyone here recommend <br>>> something quick, clean and easy?  Or, alternately can someone with <br>>> experience offer some suggestions as to how to get PHPWebsite to play <br>>> nice?  It looks like a fine solution, but my own ignorance is holding <br>>> me back.  One again I await your great wisdom.<br>>><br>> <br>> <br>> Mark -<br>> <br>> We have been using phpwebsite for a couple months now and have been <br>> happy.   We!
 went with it for the same reason, let folks create and edit !
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ges without knowing any HTML.<br>> <br>>  Where are you getting stuck sql wise?<br>> <br>> These are the steps off the top of my head:<br>> <br>> have mysql installed<br>> create a db for phpwebsite in mysql<br>> create permissions for phpwebsite to talk to it's db<br>> run the command flush privileges<br>> <br>> You also need to have the rpm php-mysql installed.  When you run the <br>> installer for phpwebsite it will ask you for the db you created earlier, <br>> and the account with permissions to create tables.  It's all automated <br>> after that.<br>> <br>> Where'd ya get and I will help the best I can?<br>> <br>> Our site is: http://new.hancock.k12.mi.us if you want to take a look and <br>> I am also using at http://teach.remc1.k12.mi.us (although it's not as <br>> pretty ;-)  a yet to be officially released open source package for <br>> teachers to create their own webpages.<br>> <br>> Our local ISD is looking at mambo as an alternative for their hosting.  <br>> http:!
//mambo.sourceforge.net  I never looked at it, can't comment on how <br>> it compares to phpwebsite but it's another option for you.<br>> <br>> <br>> Scott<br>> <br>> _______________________________________________<br>> K12OSN mailing list<br>> K12OSN at redhat.com<br>> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>> For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>> <br><br>-- <br>http://www.redeemer.qld.edu.au/<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>K12OSN mailing list<br>K12OSN at redhat.com<br>https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn<br>For more info see <http://www.k12os.org><br>

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