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September 15, 2002
Plan It. Design It. Build It. Put Your Web Site To Work (cont'd)
Blue Wrench: For Building a Dynamic Web Site
Educators in your school may be using one or more of the free form-based Web page services on the Net. The ease of adding, editing, and deleting content using such an online form enables them to maintain up-to-date and dynamic classroom and school Web pages. The only complaint is that the pages do not look like they belong to your school.
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1. The teacher click the blue wrench image in teh lower right corner,
2. enters the teacher password,
3. then edits the content of the page using the web form. |
 | Blue Wrench is an open-source project offered by my organization, The Landmark Project. It offers PHP scripts (see "PHP: New Kid on the Block.") that can be pasted directly into a school's existing Web pages to produce the same sort of form-based editing that is available through TeacherWeb or MySchoolOnline, but will also include banners, main menus, and copyright information related to your school.
If you'd like to integrate PHP into your Web site without losing the "personality" of your school or classroom, check out this free Internet tool.
To edit a classroom page, the teacher merely clicks the blue wrench at the bottom of the page and enters the page password; as a result, an identical version of the page appears, except that all content that is editable is displayed in a Web form. The teacher adds, changes, or deletes text, clicks Submit, and then clicks back out to the public view of the page to see the new version.
The Blue Wrench Web site includes all of the scripts and documentation for inserting the scripts into existing Web pages. It also includes system requirements for the Web server and some of the philosophy behind the project. Each aspect of the project includes a separate discussion board that participants can use to suggest alterations and improvements in the scripts.
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