[plug] School Web Page

[James Elliott]

Thanks Colin and Leon

I have Mozilla on my Linux machine.  The school would have all Windows
computers.  Does Mozilla also come in a Windows version?

Regards,

James Elliott
Ravensthorpe Computers
ABN 34 305 232 710
Tel:   08 9838 1043
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Muller" <colin at twobluedots.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] School Web Page


> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 02:51:35PM +0800, James Elliott wrote:
> > In other words, it is really just page design saving as HTML and using a
few
> > hyperlinks.
> >
> > In the interests of promoting Open Source Software, I was thinking of
taking
> > Open Office 1.0 to the school and using the "Autopilot" feature in the
Open
> > Office HTML Editor. .... what do you think?
>
> If it's just a matter of familiarising them with the sort of thing
> that it's possible to have (and put) on Web pages, that's probably not
> a bad idea.
>
> If you would like them to gain some (even a small) understanding of
> what happens behind the scenes on a Web page, I'd suggest Mozilla's
> Composer. Also WYSIWYG editing, but the buttons are more directly
> related to what Web pages are about, and there's a tab for peeking at
> (and changing if you want) the HTML underneath, as opposed to OOo's
> menu-based toggling between layout and source and its pretend
> word-processor interface.
>
> My personal feeling is that there's a lot to be said for using Mozilla
> and saying "this is the Web, not a word processor document, so we have
> different constraints and different possibilities". In shorter words,
> perhaps, for your audience :-)
>
> Colin
>
>
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