Microsoft SharePoint Designer

Microsoft SharePoint Designer is a software program that provides the user with a convenient and easy-to-use format for designing web pages. It is an HTML editor that can publish sites from either local to remote or remote to local with one click of a button. SharePoint allows users to preview their web pages before publishing in the default internet browser. It is easy to use SharePoint to make a website when you begin with an index page, and split it into a navagation bar, a banner, and the main page. From there, other pages can be created and hyperlinked from the index page. SharePoint allows you to use cascade style sheets, which are pre-determined color schemes. All you need to do to color each page is drag the cascade style sheet to that page, and it will transform your background and text color and font. Sharepoint allows internal hyperlinks, hyperlinks to an already existing file, and hyperlinks to a new page.

Although I really enjoyed learning SharePoint designer because I have never done anything with web pages before, I do not think that a website would be too useful to me in my mathematics classroom. Perhaps I could use it to post links to homework assignment in Word (using Equation Editor), however I plan on giving all of the students hard copies of the assignments anyway. Sometimes schools already have websites and allow each teacher to have a little part of that website for posting information. That being said, it is extremely important to continue to be knowledgable about technology as a teacher. Just in case something comes up where I would need to know all about website design, I am glad that I now have this tool.