Web authoring tools are designed to help organizations easily create high quality websites. Should your online learning initiative be a self-directed training website (which incidentally was a common trend in the Getting Online research report), then web authoring tools can greatly help with the process of creating your website.
Web authoring tools can help you to create and layout text, add in pictures, graphics, and audio and video and other multi-media features. These tools also help you to upload content to your website.
One popular web authoring tool is Adobe Dreamweaver. For many years, Microsoft's FrontPage was a highly popular web authoring tool; however, FrontPage has been replaced by new Microsoft products such as Expression.
In the Canadian literacy community, we are lucky to have the services of the National Adult Literacy Database (www.nald.ca). NALD creates and hosts websites free of charge for literacy organizations in Canada. Through NALD, Canadian literacy organizations have access to their own in-house web authoring organization!
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