Development of Hen’s Coop

Discussion Board (partial) for EDUC 6661 Week 7

For the past several weeks, you have been developing a classroom Web site. This week, you will share the site with your colleagues and engage in constructive discussion about design, layout, and contents. In upcoming courses, you will learn more about effective Web design elements. Consider this first discussion on the topic an opportunity to share your initial experiences, learning (from Week 2), and opinions in a way that benefits all. By the end of this program, it is hoped that you will have created an active and useful Web site that will be accessed by parents, students, and colleagues.

My web site is a constantly changing work in progress. After viewing so many awesome sites, there is so much I would like to add to my site. Sometime the "Constraints of the Classroom" are nothing compared to the constraints on the hours in a day.

Please take a look and I always appreciate comments and ideas on my site.

http://www.geocities.com/henely61/Hens_Coop.html

Rochelle
Date Modified: 10 Jun 06    2:00 PM MST

Melinda,

I don't know if this will help, but when I load images to my Geocities site, I also have trouble.

I have to save the image to my files and then make sure that there are no spaces. I fill them in with _ and the pictures seem to load fine.

Let me know if this helps.

Rochelle
Date Modified: 13 Jun 06    5:08 AM MST

 

Lindsay,

Your pages are clean and easy to read, something that I find essential to a good site. Did you load all the links on each page, if so, they are quite extensive. Good job.

I have had my web page set up through Geocities for about eight years. I really like Frank Laverty's web host and how it has links provided by them. I am almost tempted to change.
Rochelle

 

Rochelle,

Yes, I did program all of the pages and hyperlinks myself. In a previous life, I programmed webpages for a living, and find it easiest to do things by hand rather than to completely depend on templates. However, Microsoft Frontpage (http://www.microsoft.com/frontpage) offers the best of both worlds as it offers templates, but it also offers access to the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code behind each page. Dreamweaver (http://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/) is nice as well but is not as novice friendly.

 

Lindsay,

Your previous life left you very well informed! Your knowledge of the different programs used by people and your helpful comments are amazing.

Rochelle

 

Rochelle,

Thank you. One of the reasons I decided to obtain my degree with this specialization was because I wanted to further integrate my two passions. I enjoyed taking a couple of hours and programming a site that is my own. It is the first time since teaching at the University of Central Florida that I have had the opportunity to do so.
Date Modified: 10 Jun 06    4:12 PM MST

Rochelle,

I utilized the link to the Geocities hosted website you provided in the Student Lounge and viewed your site. One suggestion is to consider using a similar layout throughout all of your pages. I went to several pages and saw the same backgrounds, layouts, etc and that let me know I was on the same page; however, several others did not allow me to return to the homepage, “orphaning” the pages, “that is, hav[ing] no return link to the main site from a subpage” (Kristula, 1997, paragraph 3). Also when moving your site, remember to consider the following as outlined by Dave Kristula (1997, paragraph 6):

Often there comes a time where you may be moving your site. Your URL will probably change with the move unless you have a domain. Because there are probably numerous links pointing to your site around the web, it is considerate (and probably in your best interest) to place a link and notice at your old URL noting the change to redirect visitors trying to get to your site.

You may want to consider purchasing a domain name, which is a URL address – like http://www.degrees4teachers.net. These can be purchased for less than $10 a year. Then no matter where your site is hosted, even if for free, you can direct your domain name to that site and users never lose their way home.

Reference List:

Kristula, Dave (1997). Dave's web site design tutorial - chapter 5. Retrieved June 8, 2006, from Dave's site Web site: http://www.davesite.com/webstation/web-site-design/chap5.shtml
Date Modified: 10 Jun 06    9:21 PM MST
Lindsay,

Thank you for your comments and expertise. I will quickly change my backgounds and see what I think.
Thanks,
Rochelle


Changed to the same layout...simple and neat and added my back links! Thanks again.
Date Modified: 10 Jun 06    1:59 PM MST

Rochelle,

It looks great!
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Rochelle

You have a wonderful site. The opening page has a cute title and graphics. Also, I really liked how you adding word tags when the mouse was moved. I had never heard or see the site you have a link to at the bottom of the page (Rate My Teacher). I clicked on it to see if my school was listed and to find more out about it. My school was not listed, but the high school and elementary school was. It was interesting. How you find out if someone rated you?

Overall, Rochelle, I feel that you have done an excellent job ant beginning your website. Like you, mine is work in progress. However, by the time we finish our master’s we will be pros at this.

Allison
Rochelle,
I really like the name of your site. That is cute! It has been fun getting to know our colleagues in this course. I liked your graphics you included. The only place I could not access was a page for parents. I could get to the page about you and a page for students, but not the page for parents. It might be something you are still working on, I just thought I would let you know just in case. Good job! Good luck as you continue working on your site.
Diane
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 Frank,

I had mentioned to you that I thought your web site links were so appealing that I considered changing my host to schoolnotes. Well, in browsing your site again this weekend, I noticed that the links that I liked were in Educationworld.com. I added this link to my parent and student pages and am very happy that they have so many resources at their fingertips.

Thanks,
Rochelle