Website hosting for Students

[Stevecee]

Hi

 

A tutor has asked for recommendations for a free web builder/host so that his group can build a simple website (not to be published externally).

 

Any suggestions?

 

Steve

[Mako]

Edit: I think I missed the point of your post. You're looking for a web design package, not necessarily a hosting package. As a "simple" website can just be opened in the browser without any kind of host. There's a few WYSIWYG editors out there, maybe someone has experience with one or two.

 

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Original post:

 

We're about to move to a VM-based Computer Science solution.

 

However, once upon a time back in Windows 7, I installed XAMPP on a machine here. I shared a root folder with students in a manner similar to how their home drives are set up and created a logon script that would create a folder in their username within the htdocs. They'd then get a separate mapped drive to that folder where they could put their website files. Due to CREATOR OWNER permissions they couldn't modify anyone else's files, but could browse their friends' websites:

 

If they browsed to http://friendlyservername/username then they could view their site. Set up a static DNS entry to give your server a friendly name.

 

VLAN it off and set things in place so it's isolated if you're worried about them running javascript code or something.

Edited November 8, 2022 by Mako

[TwistedHelixis]

If you want simple drag n drop type of thing then Google sites :-)

[EssentialRug]

Hi

 

A tutor has asked for recommendations for a free web builder/host so that his group can build a simple website (not to be published externally).

 

Any suggestions?

 

Steve

 

Google Sites?

[mavhc]

Level 0, learning how websites work: Google Sites

Level 1, learning how html works: Raw html

Level 2, something you'd use in real life: multisite wordpress

[jslate1980]

We used this https://www.blueonyx.it hosted on a internal vm. Edited November 8, 2022 by jslate1980

[Alex0x7F]

+1 for Google Sites. Using it here for teaching UKS2 ICT projects.

 

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