Entry: More Free Web Tools for Teachers Friday, February 06, 2004



Well, today I did some interesting things. First I indexed my Search engine. To do so, I had to search for the engine provider (which is Fluid Dynamics Search Engine, access the help file to learn how to administer the engine, then access the help deeper to learn how to reset the password. Luckily, all was in the right place on my WestHost server, and I was able to update the index. It took almost 2 hours. But adding a search function to a large educational site is worth it, I think.

I am thinking as I write today about how much HTML is Just Enough. I have come to this tentative conclusion:
  1. img tag
  2. link tag
  3. mailto: tag
  4. knowledge of color coding
  5. some basic understanding of the structure of a table
  6. how to use paragraph and break tags
  7. the font tag and what it can contain
  8. the head and the body and what goes in each.

That should do it for most hand-coding.

Then I reactivated my Bulletin Board. This is a free script called WWWBoard from Matt's Script Archive. I remember that I worked on the coding a bit, but need to do so again (I don't like the way the form looks). Not very difficult, though.

I investigated again two free boards, to which I will link you later.

Then I read a post somewhere that sent me to a really nice Gender Gap site called Sites Girls Like, which led me down several paths and eventually to a personal web page by a very smart girl. From whom I learned about My TagBoard, where I made a Chat for a my Free Web Tools workshop. Bingo!! Some knowledge of the above code was helpful, but not necessary. I used Dreamweaver to do a little tweaking.
And then I added a survey/poll to the page, from Sparklit. I like this tool, much better than it was two years ago. For one thing, email addresses and web page URL's are no longer required to get a FREE poll code set.
So, another busy day in support of lowcost online education. Some day I will find the time to learn .php, and get really down and dirty.

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