Why use HTML in a Professional Learning Community site?
The Site Administration tools used in this system have been created for use as a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) system, meaning that you do not have to know any form of code or web practice to insert data onto these pages – the information will appear as it looks when you type it in the Edit Text box. However, there are a number of schools and offices that use Apple Mac computers. These computers do not show word processor-like formatting controls in the Edit Text box as this is a Windows tool and users are heavily reliant on copying and pasting from word processing packages or similar. Any users of the system, even those that do have the WYSIWYG tools, who gain even a basic knowledge of html, can control the formatting and layout of their pages to a much higher level. The real problem with copying and pasting from other software packages is that pages defaulted to the front home page of the site are affected by foreign tags in the word processing packages and are not displayed
