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Designing Webpages
Firstname Lastname
Resources
• Development tools
• Development tutorials
• Graphics
• Hosting services and online storefronts
• Other tools
• Business help
First things first…
• Who is your audience?
• Demographics
• Equipement
• What do they want from your
site?
• Degree of enteractivity
• What do you want your site to
do?
• Purpose
Making it happen
• Languages
• HTML, XHTML, XML, CSS, DHTML
• JAVA, SQL, Scripts
• Tools
• Plain Text Editor
• Notepad or BBEdit
• GUI Editor
• Dreamweaver, KompoZer, Expression Web
• FrontPage, Nvu
• Templates
Graphics
 Types
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JPG – photographs, lots of colors, compressed
GIF – line drawings, blocks of color
PNG – newer type, compresses well
BMP – large but extremely clear
 How to modify graphics
 Specialized software
○ Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, Corel Painter, Adobe Illustrator