Web Editors One of the most exciting aspects of the Internet is the fact that it gives schools the ability to publish material for use to an audience wider than their school, for both teachers and students who can publish and share their work. A Web site can help promote the school within the wider community by publishing information on school activities, policies and events. Below is a review of some web editors available to schools. Software Central also has a wider list of titles available here for those considering creating their own website. Web Site X5 interface takes the form of a wizard style where five steps will take you from some content and an idea to a finished and functional web site. There are no programming skills required and there is 1000 templates available for the beginner to work from. There are online guides, pdfs and video tutorials available on the Website X5 site. Software Central hosts a Project with a number of Sligo schools using Web Site X5. More... Click to enlarge Nvu generates HTML code creation that will work with all of today's most popular browsers. It is also a useful tool that will allow for the learning of HTML code as it is easy to examine how code is created by tabbing between different views. With Nvu, as it is open source project, it will be consistently upgraded. So it is important that you check the web site for updates. Nvu is also suitable to run on any operating system. Click to enlarge However there is a steep learning curve in using Dreamweaver for the beginner. Support for the depth of features are dealt with in the Help files and on online forums. Click to enlarge Expression Web is the new Microsoft replacement to FrontPage. Expression Web's interface, is similar to Dreamwwaver based on palettes flanking the main workspace that shows web pages you're working on. Any web page consists of code that produces the desired layout onscreen, and in Expression Web you can work in Design view, Code view or Split view, which shows both code and layout. This interfaceis the most common found with web editors. Expression Web's drag-and-drop capabilities and excellent code editing features are really useful. The code it generates is more standards compliant than Frontpage. Click here for screen shots of Expression Web As part of the Office suite, it is probably the web editor found most commonly found within schools. It also has a lot of support materials available on the internet from tutorials to user communities. However this is the last version of Frontpage as Microsoft launched two new products to generate web content; Sharepoint Designer and Expression Web. Click to enlarge
WebSite X5
Details Resources Version: Web Site X5 Evolution
WebSite X5 Evolution allows the user to create a web site and does not require any HTML programming skills. It is the ideal tool for both home users and school where its simple interface would allow students to create their own pages within a short space of time.
Developer: Incomedia Category: Web Editor Platform: Win Vista/Xp/2000/98 Minimum specification (recommended)
Pentium 133 Mhz
64 MB RAM
16 bit color display
Audio (optional)
Windows 98, 2000,XP
Nvu
Details Resources Version: Nvu
Nvu is an open source web editor that allows for WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editing of pages, making web creation as easy as typing a letter with your word processor. Developer: Mozilla/Linspire Category: Web Editor Platform: All flavours of Linux, Mac OS X 10.1.5 and Win 2000 and XP Minimum specification (recommended)
233MHz processor or higher (Pentium processor recommended)
Windows XP Service Pack 2 (SP2)
87 MB RAM
Dreamweaver 8
Details Resources Version: Dreamweaver 8
Dreamweaver is a very popular web editor that has allows the creation of high standard web sites. It is very powerful editor that has features that are not found in other editors.
Features of Dreamweaver include the ability to create and edit CSS style sheets, validate the html code to W3C standards and ability to compare files. It is also possible to extend Dreamweaver features through the download of extensions which has added functionality. 
Developer: Adobe(Macromedia) Category: Web Editor Platform: Win Xp/2000 Minimum specification (recommended)
256 MB of RAM
100 MB of free disk space
Expression Web
Details Resources Version: Expression Web 
Developer: Microsoft Category: Web Editor Platform: Win Xp/2000, Vista Minimum specification (recommended)
Windows Vista; Windows XP SP 2
Pentium 700 or faster
512 MB of RAM
1.5 GB of available harddisk space;
1024 � 768 resolution
Internet connection FrontPage 2003
Details Resources Version: FrontPage 2003
Frontpage 2003 is the web editor that comes with the Office 2003 suite of applications. Frontpage allows you to create web pages in a very similar way to creating a Word document. Developer: Microsoft Category: Web Editor Platform: Win Xp/2000 Minimum specification (recommended)
256 MB of RAM
100 MB of free disk space
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