Setting up a webpage

While I appreciate the opportunity to work with Google's website tools, I don't know how well a single set of basic pages might work for a class or group of classes. I tend to think they might best be used by students who want to make promotional or portfolio sites, and they could probably be taught in classes so individual students could develop a finished site as a project with skills to transfer to other subjects or outside of school. In light of all of the exposure we have had to Web 2.0 tools, open-source online apps like Engrade or Coursekit/Lore might serve our respective classes better that constructed web pages as information clearinghouses.