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This was my very first post and I received 15 helpful responses within 24 hours. What an amazing supportive community. Thank you everyone. Here is a summary of the many suggestions: - For Mac, use iWeb, very easy to use Try iWeb which comes with iLife 08 (only $79). It's very simple to make a website - just type and drag and drop. There are templates for a welcome page, Blog, photos, movies, you can add widgets, Google Adsense, etc. You will also need a iMac account or you can upload to your personal address. iLife 08 also comes with iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, & Garageband - great for projects. Leopard OSX is out within 4 days - might be a good time to upgrade your Mac getting the new OS and iLife for free! - FrontPag. You can get a free 30 day trial of FrontPage. -Investigate Dreamweaver and GoLive for this purpose. -NVU is multi-platform and open source (free!). It's not too hard to use. -My recommendation, find a simple one that allows you to use imbedded HTML, so that you don't have to learn it. I prefer ones that allow me to create in a word doc and then paste it into the webpage program. There are several that does this. THE FIRST thing to do, contact your TECH dept. You may be locked into a set program. If you are not, then FirstClass is an easy one to use. -With web 2.0, a website is obsolete these days. I would make a site for the library using a wiki or a blog. This way, each teacher could add the content that is relevant to them, so that the site is not only user friendly, but is also updated on a regular basis. Nothing is worse than looking at a website that has outdated material because no one had time to update it. I created one for my school library during my practicum using wikispaces. -I'd recommend KompoZer (http://www.kompozer.net/), which is a very nice freeware program available in Win, Mac, and Linux formats. It is based on another freeware program which was based on the venerable Netscape Composer. I've found it to be pretty easy to use; it's what I turn to when my usual hand-coding fails me. -Netscape Composer. I believe you can download it free, but you have to get an archived copy of one of the older versions of Netscape that has the composer piece to it. Also you could use Nvu, which is also a free download. If you want to spend money, Dreamweaver is very good, but hard to use if you haven't used anything similar before and it can be expensive. You might try one of the online template based web developers. Some I think are free to teachers, but I can't think of any of their names. Perhaps, another LM_Netter will come through with those. -I don't know if this would satisfy the requirements for a web page but you might want to make a blog. These are very easy to do. I use blogger.com. You can see my blog at: http://csslibraryblog.blogspot.com -Using iWeb is great, but you might also want to look at TeacherWeb http://www.teacherweb.com For $27 per year for a single subscription you can do all sorts of things and don't have to have access to your own server so you can update it from anywhere. We have several teachers who are using it. -I originally created my website using Word - save the file as a web page. It was easy because I didn't need to learn a new software program - and it is very flexible. It was difficult because it really didn't look very nice - everything skewed left a little - and getting it uploaded to the internet was difficult. My principal made me switch to Teacher Web - $27 per year cost. It's format is limiting - but they do have a library template. It takes little new knowledge. Changes to the internet are immediate. I finally decided to try Nvu, because it is free. The learning curve is steep for the neophyte but manageable. All the best, Helga -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note: All LM_NET postings are protected by copyright law. You can prevent most e-mail filters from deleting LM_NET postings by adding LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU to your e-mail address book. To change your LM_NET status, e-mail to: listserv@listserv.syr.edu In the message write EITHER: 1) SIGNOFF LM_NET 2) SET LM_NET NOMAIL 3) SET LM_NET MAIL 4) SET LM_NET DIGEST * Allow for confirmation. * LM_NET Help & Information: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ * LM_NET Archive: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/archive/ * EL-Announce with LM_NET Select: http://lm-net.info/ * LM_NET Supporters: http://www.eduref.org/lm_net/ven.html * LM_NET Wiki: http://lmnet.wikispaces.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------