The Savvy Technologist

Easy Web page creation with Nvu

I just discovered Nvu and I think we’ll include it on the student laptops in our one-to-one computing project next fall. Nvu is the latest incarnation of the old Netscape/Mozilla Composer which, like the Firefox browser, has been split out of Mozilla into a standalone application.

Most of the people who use graphical tools to create Web pages in our schools use Dreamweaver, but there’s no way I want to buy that for each of the 650 laptops. Nvu might be just the ticket for students who want to learn to create Web pages. The tool promotes CSS and other Web design best practices and seems to go well beyond basic Web development. Maybe they’ll all be blogging someday, but until then Nvu will have to do.