Website builder ???

[Andy Appleyard]

Hello everyone,

I was wondering if anyone could recommend me a very good ( hopefully ) easy website builder which i could use with young people to create a website for the youth clubs i work in.

We find that a lot of our yp that attend youth club are using technology even at the club through their phones / pda's etc!!!!

Following discussions with them, they are in agreement that it would be a good idea to have a community portal which they can access and update. I have gone down the facebook road but my LA have put a big no no on that at the moment, any advice from anyone regarding this ???

Shame to have all these tools and not use them !!!

Thanks in advance!

Andy

[Tim Davies]

Hey Andy

One route that can by really easy is to use Wordpress, the blogging platform, to create a website.

You can create static pages of content, and use the 'blog' feature to post news updates regularly - and you can use other free tools so that young people can get those news updates to e-mail / mobile phone etc.

The hosted Wordpress.com platform is free - and you can find a one page guide / introduction here.

What would others suggest?

[Gareth Cheesman]

Blogspot is very easy to use and you can easily update it quickly and post new stuff.

I use Blogspot to communicate with my leaders and facebook (plus a www.dbiz.org.uk">website we paid for) for young people.

[Andy Appleyard]

Many thanks for the replies Tim and Gareth,

I was looking at www.moonfruit.com which seemed quite easy and when discussing the issue with the young people it was the one they seemed to like. Any feedback on this one?

I personally do like the wordpress idea as im a fan of the little add ons, especially regarding updates to emails / phones etc.. i just have difficulty with the child protection issues from those above taking a stern stance on such communication methods... whilst i understand its sooooooo ruddy frustrating!