For this class, I actually used two different website generators. In the past I made a googlesites webpage, which was okay, but I found it very difficult to learn how to manipulate the various elements and rapidly discovered that I was running out of drive space, something that concerned me. Also, googlesites is sometimes blocked by our school district and that seemed counterproductive to the task. So, I was excited to learn that we would be making a website as part of this course; I hoped I'd finally be motivated to make the website that I had been dreaming about. After getting some recommendations, I started with Wix. I found a template and started to fiddle with it, slowly bringing it in line with my vision, but something just wasn't working. I don't know what it was, maybe there was too much individualization? Maybe I didn't have a clear enough vision? But I found I didn't like the site that I had created. What I wanted was something that I could link to the blog I had created, would allow me to make meaningful resource and assignment pages for my students, and look nice. I wanted to be able to upload dropbox files and have my students be able to access them. I think that might be where things veered off course. I found a dropbox app/widget, but you could only upload 250mg of content. That's not enough for me. So, I decided to go back to a site that I had looked at years ago and one that was popular with lots of teachers. Weebly was what I (obviously) finally settled on. I'm still not sure that this fits my needs 100%, but it seems more intuitive to me. I like the way that there is optimization and customization, but not too much. I get overwhelmed trying to make things perfect. I also like the editor, so far I haven't had any problems with it and I've been tinkering for weeks. Now I just have to unleash it on my students and see how it fares.
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