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that you have written and edited your web pages, you can add more
interactive features and additional resources to your website. Most
of these resources can promote communication between students, teachers,
and parents. There are two ways that you can add interactive features
to your site.
1. Developing Interactive Resources on Another
Server
There are web sites that offer you tools for creating interactive
information without you needing to know how to code these into
your web page. Usually you fill out a form and they will create the
message board, mailing list, or other interactive information. All
you need to do is to create a link to the resource on their server
that they designed for you.
- Free Find
- http://www.freefind.com/
Allows you to quickly add a powerful search engine to your Web site with
no hardware or software to install.
- Bravenet
- http://www.bravenet.com/
This web site will help you set up your own mailing lists, guestbooks,
form processors, greeting cards, hit counters, web counters, search engines,
and MORE!
- Calendar.net
- http://www.calendars.net/
This is a free interactive web calendar hosting service, where you and
anyone you choose can post events visible and printable.
- Extreme Counting
- http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/
Check out what they promise to deliver...much more than just counting web
pages!
- Form Site
- http://www.formsite.com/
Use this site to create professional looking and functioning, secure, database-backed
HTML Forms.
- Interaction, Games and Puzzles Web Resources
- http://www.buddyproject.org/jfy/teachers/interaction.asp
These links can help teachers and students design interactive resources
that will encourage visitors to spend time on your site and
return frequently.
- Speak For Itself
- http://www.speaksforitself.com/
This speech plug-in can speak out loud any visual and hidden text or database
information, guide you through interactive applications ... even be able
to turn 'read-me' files into 'hear-me' files.
- Cool Surveys
- http://www.coolsurveys.com/
Create polls for your website using this resource.
- YahooGroups
- http://groups.yahoo.com/
YahooGroups is a free email group service that allows you to easily create
and join email groups. Email groups offer a convenient way to connect
with others who share the same interests and ideas
- Zoomerang
- http://info.zoomerang.com/
Use this resource to create surveys and feedback forms.
2. Developing Interactive Resources on Your
Server
These are web sites that will aid you in adding dynamic resources
on your own web pages. You will need to know something about HTML coding
to add this to your information.
- Translate Your Website into
Different Languages
- http://www.systransoft.com/
You can install this software on your webserver so that visitors can translate
your website into a number of different languages.
- Time and Date
- http://www.timeanddate.com/
This web page will help you add clocks, dates, calendars, and even calculate
how many days are in between two dates.
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