Free Resources from the Net for (Special) Education

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Do you want to try your hand at authoring web pages? Or, would you like your students to begin learning to create web pages? If so,this free software may be of interest to you. This is filed on the Productivity page.

NVu (downloadable program) NVu is short for “New View”, and it is free open source web authoring software that is intended for “non-technical computer users who want to create an attractive, professional-looking web site without needing to kmow HTML or web coding.” It is known as WYSIWYG for “What you see is what you get.” Ftp uploading and downloading has been built in, so you can use NVu to upload your web pages to a server. NVu has been designed as an alternative to Dreamweaver or FrontPage. Anyone who is familiar with either of those programs will have no difficulty getting started with NVu. More experienced web programmers also have the option of toggling to HTML mode if they wish. The developers claim that web pages created with NVu function reliably in most popular browsers. Detailed tutorials are available, as is an NVu forum. For a helpful review, created using NVu, you can refer to http://www.buzzys.net/nvu.html To download the program, go directly to NVu.

This program runs in Windows, Mac, and Linux.