Some basic knowledge is helpful but not necessary. The technical manual is directed towards an introductory understanding of Internet basics. It will, along with the prepared web page templates, allow teachers and students to learn the basics and construct a more than suitable basic web site. You do not need to know anything about HTML to participate in the project. The guides provides examples and easy to understand detail about how HTML is used.
Teachers are more than free to use web authoring software.
There are many available and can be very helpful. Once schools get more familiar with HTML, the Atlas pages can always be dressed up with more content and design features. There is no requirement what so ever to use HTML if you would prefer to use other software to create your web pages. The web page templates that we provide will work very well using this kind of software also. No, the school can use the templates on any basic word processor, even Windows Note pad and Simple text on the Macintosh.