Web Publishing in about an Hour
Web Publishing in about an hour.
There are a lot of web publishing programs on the market requiring various degrees of computer skills. The one thing these programs forget is the magic word “easy.” Most beginners, if not all beginners want to create a Web site that is easy to do but looks professional when it is finished. Few programs fit that requirement. I have taught and learned various web programs that are free to expensive professional including Netscape Composer, Hot Metal, Hot Dog, MS Publisher 2000, Corel Web, FrontPage 2000, Dreamweaver, Webtricity, Fusion, and Allaire’s Cold Fusion and Home Web.
From a teacher’s viewpoint the easiest web program for students of any age to learn is MS Publisher 2000. I have been a user of this program since it was version 4.0 and then version 97 and finally version 2000. What makes MS Publisher easy is the Web Wizard that allows you to select templates that you can see before you get started. Five steps later you have created a web site of from one to five pages with a response form included, a URL site page, sound activated and navigation buttons to link all the pages.
A perfect example of how great MS Publisher can be is how I got a job as a Full Professor at New York University School of Education. The job was titled Technology Coordinator and Coordinator or communications and was funded by a two year grant by AT&T for $500,000., hence a faculty position as a Full Professor at New York University which usually takes five years to get tenure and 10 plus years to make full professor. Anyway, after two intense interviews for the job I was asked by one of the members of the interview panel if I knew anything about creating a Web Site. I confirmed that and suggested I could create a five-page web site with sound and animation in about an hour. The people on the panel were astonished. The shock value worked great. When the interview was over I drove home 45 minutes and went directly to my computer and opened
There are a lot of web publishing programs on the market requiring various degrees of computer skills. The one thing these programs forget is the magic word “easy.” Most beginners, if not all beginners want to create a Web site that is easy to do but looks professional when it is finished. Few programs fit that requirement. I have taught and learned various web programs that are free to expensive professional including Netscape Composer, Hot Metal, Hot Dog, MS Publisher 2000, Corel Web, FrontPage 2000, Dreamweaver, Webtricity, Fusion, and Allaire’s Cold Fusion and Home Web.
From a teacher’s viewpoint the easiest web program for students of any age to learn is MS Publisher 2000. I have been a user of this program since it was version 4.0 and then version 97 and finally version 2000. What makes MS Publisher easy is the Web Wizard that allows you to select templates that you can see before you get started. Five steps later you have created a web site of from one to five pages with a response form included, a URL site page, sound activated and navigation buttons to link all the pages.
A perfect example of how great MS Publisher can be is how I got a job as a Full Professor at New York University School of Education. The job was titled Technology Coordinator and Coordinator or communications and was funded by a two year grant by AT&T for $500,000., hence a faculty position as a Full Professor at New York University which usually takes five years to get tenure and 10 plus years to make full professor. Anyway, after two intense interviews for the job I was asked by one of the members of the interview panel if I knew anything about creating a Web Site. I confirmed that and suggested I could create a five-page web site with sound and animation in about an hour. The people on the panel were astonished. The shock value worked great. When the interview was over I drove home 45 minutes and went directly to my computer and opened