Making An Interactive Online Tutoring Website
Why An Interactive Tutoring Website?
By this stage you've managed to design, and have your first online tutoring website hosted by a reputable web hosting company - congratulations! It may not rival the works of Van Gogh, it may not have all the bells and whistles of a flash website - but you're proud of what you've designed. You've even started to advertise your tutoring services - online and off-line. Soon people start to say good things about your tutoring service - they find out about your services through word of month, while others find out about your services by doing a search on the internet. One-by-one people start to visit your website. Some parents even start to contact you asking if you can help to regularly tutor their kids! As happy as you are about getting more tutoring work, you soon realize that life would be a lot easier if your site had more features. You start thinking about adding a guest book, an emailing list and a stat counter. How do you go about adding more features to make your online tutoring website more interactive? The answer is to use scripts generated by your WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) tool, and server-side scripts.
You can create interactive contents if you understand how to write up dynamic scripts and forms. But for many beginner and intermediate web designers, this is for too complex to learn. The simplest way to add interactive elements to your site is to use the interactive features that come pre-installed on many WYSIWYG tools. Programs such as Yahoo Geocities come with their own stat counters, contact forms and guest books that you can drag and drop into your web pages. Under the hood, the WYSIWYG program automatically translates your actions as a series of HTML, Java scripts, DHTML or some other codes - codes that are necessary to create dynamic websites. Most web contents that are created this way uses scripts that can be directly processed on your visitors web browser.
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