School
Website Information
Considering a website for your school
or a site for a one teacher?
Topics below:
Websites hosted by LAUSD
Options on software to create a website and post on
LAUSD
Free website creation and hosting for individuals
LAUSD Portal
Commercial websites for schools
Website hosted
by LAUSD
Details: For information on LAUSDnet hosted
websites for your school, see:
New BUL-2424http://notebook.lausd.net/
pls/ptl/docs/PAGE/
CA_LAUSD/FLDR_ORGANIZATIONS/FLDR_INFOTECH/
WEBPOLICY_FINAL12-09%20DEEB%20_4_.PDF
Webpage Guidelines:
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/lausdnet/
makepages.html
Design Guidelines:
http://www.lausd.k12.ca.us/lausd/
lausdnet/design/
Photo and ID Release Forms - now includes
form for persons over 18 years old:
The form is located on the AUP page
http://notebook.lausd.net/portal/page?_
pageid=33,136640&_dad=ptl&_schema=PTL_EP
Write to webmaster @ lausd.net (remove
spaces - there to reduce spam - in address) to get a
form to fill out. Have your principal write this using
his or her LAUSD e-mail identifying you along with your
employee number as the sitemaster for your school.
Options
on software to create a website and
Post on LAUSD
There are many choices. Here a few choices are listed.
Along with website creation software a means of uploading
the site to LAUSD is needed. Fugu
is a popular choice for Apple users.
- Office - Word
-
iWeb
on an late version Apple with Fugu
(a SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol) with LAUSD
website hosting.
LAUSD Web hosting information here.
Sample iWeb school site here.
File transfer tutorial here.
Alternative
websites - probably best for teachers:
Create your own webpage/s:
-
Tumblr http://www.tumblr.com/
hosting provided.
Sample LAUSD Employee made Webpages:
PE Page
http//:www.physicaleducation.tumblr.com
EdTech Page
-
Scholastic http://teacher.scholastic.com/
homepagebuilder/
-
PageFlakes http://www.pageflakes.com/
hosting provided
Sample teacher webpage ...
-
Google Page Creator http://pages.google.com/
(A Google
account is needed.) The e-mail in the account can
be your LAUSD.net account. Google is not a host for
the pages. Use with Fugu
(a SFTP - Secure File Transfer Protocol) with LAUSD
website hosting.
Sample Teacher webpage ...
- DreamWeaver
For software to create your site, DreamWeaver
is the most popular as a commercial software. Training
is found through
http://ctap.lacoe.edu/workshops/
or http://ctap.lacoe.edu/calendar/index.html
There is a three day training at LACOE offered about
twice a year. It is a combination of Photoshop to create
a template and Dreamweaver to create a website. A $25
dollar fee is required. One must attend all three days.
Learning Zone may have classes on webdesign:
LearningZone LAUSD Homepage > Employees > InsideLAUSD
> Learning Zone > Courses > Course Offerings
Macromedia has some online support at:
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/mx/
dreamweaver/video_tutorials.html
You can buy DreamWeaver (get the Studio
MX 2004 suite) from Educational Resources linked from:
http://www.calsave.org/companies/macromedia/
Nice site for Dreamweaver support:
http://www.estlc.com
With Dreamweaver Extension Manager,
add for SHTP permissions.
-
WebTemplates
http://andreasviklund.com/templates/
Have not tried any.
HTML
Assistance
HTML
Tag Tutorial http://www.austen.com/tutorial/
HTML
RGB Color Chart
http://www.austen.com/tutorial/colorchart.gif
Commercial
websites for schools
The information below is an observation for your
information -- not a recommendation. Read the full disclaimer
here.
See a number of schools using the Educational
Networks for hosted websites: http://www.educationalnetworks.net/
There are other commercial school website developers
and hosting sites. If you have suggestions to add let
the Local District 8 ITAF know.
Bannng
HS http://www.banninghs.org/
Carson HS http://www.carsonhs.org/
Narbonne HS http://www.narbonnehigh.org
San Pedro HS http://www.sanpedrohs.org/
Over 40 schools in LAUSD having websites hosted
by Educational Networks. Some are:
http://www.ghchs.com/
http://www.belmonths.org/
http://www.tafthigh.org/
http://www.chatsworthhs.org/
http://www.clevelandhs.org/
http://www.kingms.org/http://www.edisonms.org/
LAUSD
School and Office Portal Information
The
creation of all portal sites (school, office, business
function, etc.) follows the same process. To accommodate,
a meeting needs to be scheduled with a representative/customer
from the interested organization. The outcome of the
meeting will be that an action is taken on the part
of ITD to produce a series of wire frame diagrams that
layout the entire website, map out the main and sub
navigation points and identify the targeted content
topics/areas.
After completing any required modifications, a signoff
is supplied to the customer. Once returned, ITD moves
to the design component of the process. That entails
taking a couple of the wire frames, incorporating the
design elements and supplying the customer with a few
samples to give you the overall look and feel of the
site. Upon completion, an acceptance doc will be provided.
The final stage involves ITD developing the site, and
the customer incorporating the content.
Training is available through the Training group and
can be scheduled accordingly.
Once the site is ready to go live, the final acceptance
document is provided and upon return, the site launch
date will be determined. Feb. 2007 Currently, all portal
sites use the same header and footer for all portal
pages.
Feb.
2007 We are not at a point where we are able to accommodate
different looks for schools vs. offices. So, if a school
wants to be part of the Portal, the design of an office
and school are consistent.
However, we are working towards being able to change
this so that a school can retain their uniqueness/individualism
by being able to customize the site. Among the design
changes being reviewed are to include an extended color
palette for the purpose of incorporating school colors
and being able to change the color combinations in the
sites navigation bar (currently housed on the left side)
along with in the navigation bar orientation.
Reality check:
1. It is not easy to start this on your
own or transfer to the LAUSD server without assistance.
2. Once established, a website is easy to maintain.
3. A few hours a day may be required to support a school
website if you are supporting dozens of groups or teachers.
4. The LAUSD webmaster is not a resource to get assistance
with DreamWeaver.
Prevent Harvesting of E-mails
from a Website
How can I protect my web pages from email address
harvesting?
Several method are covered here. One is using ASCII
text. (KB-ITC)
http://kb.iu.edu/data/alcm.html
Notes:
Adhere to the all privacy and copyright laws and common
sense use with information on webpages.
BUL-999.2 Acceptable Use Policy (04/25/06)
BUL- 1077 Information Protection Policy
M-43
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