Creating Blogs and Websites. This page is where you can find resources related to my presentations about creating effective blogs and websites to complement instruction. How to create a Blogger blog. How to turn on comment moderation in Blogger. How to add or subtract contributors to your Blogger blog. How to create an Edublogs blog. How to create a Wordpress.com blog. How to create a Posterous blog. The Basics of Creating and Editing a Wikispaces Wiki.More, including a video tutorial, about using Wikispaces. Creating a Google Sites website. Ten Options for Creating Websites. Yola (formerly Synthasite) is the tool that I am currently using to build websites for my department and other departments in my high school. Webs (formerly Free Webs) is another service that I have first-hand experience with in a school setting because my girlfriend (a teacher in another school district) uses it for her classes.
Snap Pages provides a free service as well as a premium service for creating your custom website. Webs - Make a free website, get free hosting. Html-color-codes.png (PNG Image, 905 × 922 pixels) iPage | Web Hosting, Unix Hosting, E-Mail, Web Design. Editors Review | 2013 Top 15 Hosting Providers.
Weebly - Create a free website and a free blog. WEB PAGES. Wordpress Theme Generator - Create your own Wordpress Theme. This online generator creates your own custom unique WordPress Theme. Without any need for HTML, JS, PHP, or CSS knowledge. Change the colors, settings, layout, preview live, click "save" and download your unique Wordpress theme zip-file.
Extract, upload, set, and you are done! Please note: this was developed in 2007 (!) And there is no active support available anymore. Supports {*style:<a href=' 2.1 to Wordpress 3.7 Themes{*style:</a>*}. 8 Simple Tips To Improve Accessibility. Accessibility & the Web | Feature 8 Simple Tips To Improve Accessibility Adding a few simple accessibility features to your school's Web site will transform the experience for those with vision or hearing impairment--and everyone else as well.
By Dian Schaffhauser09/22/11 Few districts these days have the kinds of budgets that enable them to employ Web experts to help schools design and update their sites. Fewer still have Web staffers who understand the basics of making Web sites accessible to people with disabilities. Janet Jendron, program coordinator at the South Carolina Assistive Technology Program, has seen many unintentional design blunders, from bad color schemes to graphics with no description to the overuse of video--all of which can prevent users from getting the information they need from a Web site.
Jendron runs a program to help South Carolina state agencies create Web sites that are accessible and usable for everyone.