Week 8-Website Design

This week we had an introduction to website design.

We began by finding different online website creators through Web 2.0. I found that I liked them very much, up to a point. Most online website creators are really good for basic layouts, but once I started wanting to do anything even relatively fancy, it became difficult and frustrating. I have a little bit of a background in website design because I took a website design class here at WOU, so I think that was part of my frustration because I know that I can do more with a website than the online creators allow me to do. Granted, I only explored a few, so there may be some creators that would allow me to do more, but that would take some more looking.

After we had looked at the online website creators we began to learn about Dreamweaver. I used Dreamweaver in my website design class, so I am familiar with it, but it was good to have a refresher. Depending on what you do, it can take a very long time to create a website, but I find that Dreamweaver is fairly user friendly.

I think that it will be useful to know how to use Dreamweaver even though, as a teacher, I will probably never have access to Dreamweaver, or the time to create a website using Dreamweaver. I think that the online website creators will be very, very useful as a teacher. Almost every teacher I know has their own website now. I think it is a great way to provide extra resources to students, and to stay in touch with parents.