[Year 12 IPM] Web Editors

[Robert Hind]

And you can still get the older Arachnophilia, Ver 4.0, that is a Windows 
app. The Java version is different in operation and also, on some machines, 
is very slow due to the need to interpret the Java.

I am an Arachnophilia phan.

Robert Hind (Semi-retired)
Ex Traralgon and Ashwood



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurie Savage" <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au>
To: "Year 12 Information Technology Processing and Management 
Teachers'Mailing List" <ipm at edulists.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2006 12:05 PM
Subject: [Year 12 IPM] Web Editors - was Hover buttons in Frontpage


> Sure Keith!
>
> I guess I like Dreamweaver best. I use its coding editor much more than 
> its WYSIWYG page since I'm moving to semantic web authoring. My favourite 
> features in DW are its template creation tools and the Site Manager.
>
> Other (Windows) tools I've tried are:
>
> HTML Kit
> which is very powerful and FREE. My weaker students find it confusing.
>
> Notepad
> is free and works but of course does not support tag highlighting or 
> editing. There are some cool Notepad replacements which do. I focus on 
> Notepad for my year 11 students. Since they all have Internet access I've 
> set them the task of identifying how to create and then upload pages to 
> their families' web spaces.
>
> Arachnophilia
> has good features, is free and written as a Java application
>
> And when I'm working in Linux - good old Emacs with its html-helper mode!
>
> I've made a CD for my students with OpenOffice 2, Firefox, Thunderbird, 
> HTMLKit ad CoreFTP - all legally free.
>
> Laurie
>
> Keith Richardson wrote:
>> Hi Laurie - could you please start a thread about the web page editors
>> you like to use and why?
>> I am sure that many of us would appreciate hearing from the various
>> experts and experiences of those of us less experienced in the
>> vagarities of website creation. U3O2 is staring many of us in the face,
>> so all help will be most useful!
>> Ciao, Keith
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 11:50:30 +1100, "Laurie Savage"
>> <sav at pvgc.vic.edu.au> said:
>>> Understatement! Even though FP sites can look nice and are easy to 
>>> produce I use Frontpage to illustrate to students how to create bad 
>>> pages that cost an enormous amount to serve and are written with no 
>>> regards to standards or conventions. Ever tried to extend and upgrade a 
>>> site written with FP?
>>>
>>> Andrew Shortell wrote:
>>>> Yes there is a definite glitch in front page
>>> -- 
>>> Laurie Savage
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>> Keith Richardson
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>> Head of ICT, Leibler Yavneh College
>> Elsternwick
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> -- 
> Laurie Savage
> =============================================
> Student Assessment, Reporting and Tracking
> Pascoe Vale Girls College, 03 9306 2544
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