<font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Things like Dreamweaver add a lot of bloated code. Even at government training at your local library they terach you basic HTML so you can attempt to fix errors. Good luck getting a fast load and SEO results unless you know coding and are doing so by yourself. My source? I got my degree doing Web Design.<br>
<br>An online presence includes giving information about timetables and events. Good luck getting schools to run something like Blackboard that universities use. Even the pros who made Blackboard still built a pretty terrible navigation system for teachers and students to use.<br>
<br>Teachers get timetables etc through fax and email. Having to load up a website to get that information on your phone, whom not all teachers have HTC's, Galaxy's etc is terrible productivity. <br><br>As for parents and students, on top of letters confirming events etc, a PDF is good enough for them. Until I read these emails I've never heard a parent moan about downloading a PDF file. Especially since most browsers load them in. They get on with it.<br>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 11 June 2011 22:02, Colin Law <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clanlaw@googlemail.com">clanlaw@googlemail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><div class="im">On 11 June 2011 21:44, Dino T. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dino@dinot.co.uk" target="_blank">dino@dinot.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Teachers have enough on their plate teaching 2-3 subjects. So on top of teaching subjects they didnt do a degree, they now by your standards have to learn HTML etc? Give me a break.<br>
</font></font></blockquote></div><div><br>Few build web pages in raw html nowadays. No-one should be so doing.<br> </div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex">
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<br>School websites are only done as a means to advertise and make the school have an online presence. </font></font></blockquote></div><div><br>I don't think those are the right reasons for a school to have a website. it should be there to make life easier for teachers, students and parents. If it is not doing that then it is a waste of effort.<br>
</div><div class="im"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex"><font color="#000000"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">They do not in majority hire web designers to do them. Most are templates altered to school colours or a teacher designed it that volunteered to create the site using Dreamweaver. That's why so many school websites look alike.<br>
<br>Once the website is done its much faster to upload PDF's and point a link to it than create a layout for what is said on said PDF. Time is money and considering teachers don't get paid enough and are mistreated as it is, the last thing they need is to be told to become web designers too. They are schools, not the W3C or anyone linked with web accessibility so its not their responcibility to make sure you can view their website ok on your tablet PC or your Android phone.<br>
</font></font></blockquote></div><div><br>On the other hand if to have the data accessible on mobile phone is sufficiently useful to teachers, students or parents then that is a good reason for doing it.<br><br>Colin<br>
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