Visual Epidemic

I have a wish from a student in my Språkkonsult (Language Consultancy) course who wants to learn to build websites. I have been teaching them to use wordpress + tools to create an integrated (albeit fragmented) online web presence. I wonder if building a site, say from Dreamweaver, is a useful skill in a course that only goes three weeks and tries to cover a lot of ground? How useful are sites that are built outside of content management systems? Of course these sites are useful – but to give these students who are not online a lot of the time  a course in website building instead of the cultural and discourse/linguistic aspects of online tools (+ the popular, social media) seems to me to be the wrong way to go.  What do you think? Is there some kind of tool that will let the students build a presence online (it does not have to contain a blog), but that looks nice and contains relevant, professional information?

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