BP4: Review of New Tool - LUBITH

I have taught web design at a community college for the last seven years. Needless to say, the technology has rapidly changed since I began. Although we learn the Adobe Suite primarily, in particular DreamWeaver for website layout, it is worth some investigation to look into other web content management systems. Web content management systems allow the designer/creator to utilize authoring, collaboration and administration of dynamic websites. The following is a link to a list of TTW (Through the web) WYSIWIGS (What you see is what you get) of free, flexible, robust website content management platforms.

THROUGH THE WEB WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET

The primary programs I am investigating are Wix, Drupal, WordPress and Joomla. Through this class, I found a new one worth investigating. It is called Lubith.

 Lubith works within WordPress to generate dynamic content with "drag and drop" intuitive interface technologies so that even the unexperienced designer can create websites. You can resize the theme elements by dragging the handlebars with the anchor points. In addition, no code is required.

The site theme generator, Lubith, is easy to navigate through and includes many video tutorials. The most interesting thing is that the videos (see below) contain no verbal narration. I am continually instructing my students about the decline in literacy. We are reading less and less. In fact, since the mid-1980's, the overall American literacy rate has gone from 80,000 words in the average vocabulary to now 10,000 words. This is due to a number of factors, but the one that I like to focus on is the fact that we are now a global community and English may not be the primary language. It is important for my students to be able to learn how to make effective instructional videos in the coursework that they are studying. VIDEO LINK.