Dreamweaver+Galore

=** Project Proposal for new and improved Longmont High School Website **=

My (jmeester) [|delicious account] **See cybercamp08 tag.**
 * This page will fill up with Dreamweaver resources, links, web idea content and design, etc.**


 * What is the [|make-up] of a good school website? Article:** [|The Evolution of Websites.]


 * Web Design Tools:** [|A List Apart: Code, Content, Design, Process], [|Web 2.0 article], [|List of creative design sites]


 * A few examples of school or university websites that I can see working: [|school website #1], [|school website #2], [|school/library website #3], [|University website#4], [|Flickr photo of cool web/blog website #5], [|Flickr phot of cool web/blog website #6 LHS]**

=**[|Website Options?] What are they? Are There additional Options?**=


 * [|Edublogs?]**


 * Benefits: Easy to use, easy to change, district supported?, easily embed other forms of media to blog

Limitations:** **Template choices are limited**, **can I upload pdfs?** **easily?,** **html limitations**

[|St Vrain Virtual Campus]


 * Benefits: District Supported

Limitations:** **Template choices and color schemes are limited, design techniques are limited - would need to hand code html,** dynamic enough?


 * Dreamweaver:** ([|Current LHS website)]


 * Benefits:** **District Supported, web designer has used Dreamweaver, uses templates and css**


 * Limitations: Can be tedious, requires patience and sometimes a high learning curve, web designer is afraid of Dreamweaver**

=What would you like to see on a school website?=


 * Please add to this list:**
 * Student projects?
 * General information
 * Schedules
 * Staff email - contact information?
 * School calendar
 * Sports Schedules
 * Counseling Information
 * Newsletters
 * Academic information
 * HAPPY news about teens doing great things in the community - JAO

= ** Next steps : **   =
 * Apply for Independent Study - Professional Develepment, 1 credit.
 * Create website or portion of website that can be completed during the 1 credit.
 * Share website with LHS community, ask for feedback, incorporate and apply to website.
 * Fine-tune website using feedback and upload site live for all to see.

=Timeline Expectation:=
 * Complete application by June 30, 2008
 * Spend 16 hours working on website prior to August 15, 2008
 * Ask for feedback from LHS community during September and October 2008
 * Upload site live for all to see by November 1, 2008