First Class?

OrestesOrestes Registered User regular
edited October 2007 in Help / Advice Forum
Last year my schools computer teacher retired due to heart/stress problems (life of a teacher eh?), and my poorly thought out school did not plan anything for our school website.

When I asked my vice-principal about it, he asked me if I wanted to run the school website. I figured "Eh, why not? It's a really nice EC I can write down for upcoming University applications" (which if anyone has any helpful hints, I'd love a PM).

The only thing is, our school just adopted a new problem called First Class. Apparently from reviews I've read, this is a really neat problem, it even does web publishing.

My vice-principal, to make things nice and flush, asked me to use this program, and this program only to create

A) A school webpage
B) A webpage dedicated only for Grads
C) Somehow incorperate a forum.

There are a ton of problems I have found so far.

1) First Class is all point and click, I can't even get to the underlying html so I can muck around like I always do.
2) Same thing, First Class sucks right now.
3) I can't even get permission to upload anything onto the school server, how do I get a forum running (let me guess, the answer is I can't; forums are server side applications right?).

Creating a webpage of "QQQQQQ" then going in, finding the file, and opening it up in a text editor is not possible either, because apparently First Class saves directly to the server.


If anyone has any tips on First Class, or any experience with it, or perhaps a suggestion on what to do, it would be greatly appreciated.

Orestes on

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  • coldbird.coldbird. Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    A forum for a high school?

    Baaaaaaaaaaaaad idea.

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  • OrestesOrestes Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    I told that to my vice-principal

    "Listen bud, we need some way of communicated between a mass a students to set up times for events"

    The worst part is they want me to be the admin.

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  • DrFrylockDrFrylock Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    You need to explain to them that if they want you to set up and run a website, they are going to have to actually let you set up and run a website.

    "Hi, would you be kind and drive this car from A to B?"

    "Sure"

    "Fine. Don't touch the steering wheel, the brake pedal, and especially not the accelerator. Don't get into the car either. In fact, keep a five-foot distance between you and the car at all times."

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  • ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    Hey we had a version of FC. It is great

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  • SniperGuySniperGuy SniperGuyGaming Registered User regular
    edited October 2007
    And yeah, short of getting one of those websites that has their own forum thing they set up for you and let you use and just linking to that, you can't make a forum without access to file uploads.

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