(My apologies to any of you who read both this forum and the Highrise forum as this is posted in both)

Hey all -

You guys are the smartest people that I know so I’m going to throw this out there and perhaps ask those of you up on the Basecamp forum too.

I work in educational technology and I just started writing a technology blog (like the world needs another one – NOT) at the insistence of the Overlords at my day gig.

I will be talking about 37s too but one of the things that I’m doing right now is trying to answer some specific questions from teachers.

I got a question yesterday about how a teacher can make a really, REALLY easy website (they don’t have a lot of time and some of them are not super technical) for their classroom. They want it to be either really cheap or free. (I would assume they would be OK with ad supported because nothing is really free, everyone needs some kind of revenue stream) I would like to make them a list of less than 10 that I would feel confident about.

I’m personally a huge fan of Squarespace (http://www.squarespace.com) but I think that might be a little much for them.

So my question is: What are your ideas? I can talk about Google Sites. But I know that there are lots of other things out there. I’m thinking that Backpack might make an interesting classroom website. No reason it can’t right?

What do you guys think?

Thanks,

Cindy
http://www.extrageek.com

Well…

I personally pay about $65 a year to have someone host my space and web address. That’s the extent of the charge.

I use a free FTP client to handle file transfers called FTPSurfer.

I use Wordpress (totally free) to run a very nice looking blog on this website.

I had a message forum that I used to run that was PHPBB2 (totally free), but I took it down because of spam bots and my own ignorance in being able to implement anti-spam bot measures.

I’m thinking about using the free version of basecamp as a message forum. I prefer to have things on my own hosted server under my own paid terms, so I’m a little leary of going this route.

Once I paid for the webhosting and address, my provider’s FAQ section was really helpful in getting things set up. I am not a IT guy or web guru (functionally web-tarded), and I’ve got a really slick looking site that I did all the work on.

Wordpress is immensely easy to set up, use and administrate. I strongly recommend it.