On 11 June 2011 21:44, Dino T. <d...@dinot.co.uk> wrote: > Teachers have enough on their plate teaching 2-3 subjects. So on top of > teaching subjects they didnt do a degree, they now by your standards have to > learn HTML etc? Give me a break. >
Few build web pages in raw html nowadays. No-one should be so doing. > > School websites are only done as a means to advertise and make the school > have an online presence. I don't think those are the right reasons for a school to have a website. it should be there to make life easier for teachers, students and parents. If it is not doing that then it is a waste of effort. > They do not in majority hire web designers to do them. Most are templates > altered to school colours or a teacher designed it that volunteered to > create the site using Dreamweaver. That's why so many school websites look > alike. > > Once the website is done its much faster to upload PDF's and point a link > to it than create a layout for what is said on said PDF. Time is money and > considering teachers don't get paid enough and are mistreated as it is, the > last thing they need is to be told to become web designers too. They are > schools, not the W3C or anyone linked with web accessibility so its not > their responcibility to make sure you can view their website ok on your > tablet PC or your Android phone. > On the other hand if to have the data accessible on mobile phone is sufficiently useful to teachers, students or parents then that is a good reason for doing it. Colin
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