Transcript Web Development Presentation

The World of Web Development
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
[email protected]
www.cindyroyal.com
www.onthatnote.com
tech.cindyroyal.net
@cindyroyal
Intro
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html
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css
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ftp
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how to get a domain,
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file organization
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javascript, etc.
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Flash
Then, this idea of using data on Web sites came about, and programs
like PHP and ASP allowed programming concepts that allowed the Web
to connect to databases.
Now, there are multiple ways to have a fully featured, archived and
searchable online presence, without having to know every technology.
You can visualize these in phases or categories.
Web Development Categories
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Basic HTML design
Programming emerges
Blog Platforms
Content Management Systems
Web Frameworks
Other
Basic HTML Design
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HTML – early 90s, language of the Web
Became XHTML to add structure, conventions –
early 2000's; now moving to HTML5
Cascading Stylesheets – CSS – 1996; current
implementation CSS3
Javascript (1995), Flash (1996), AJAX, JQuery
All client-side languages – activity occurs at the
client (user) level
Web Programming
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Server-side
ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby,
Databases – MySQL
Powerful functionality, server-side includes,
post data to forms, populate sites with data
Gave rise to Content
Management Systems
Blog Platforms
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Started as platform for online journaling; Web sites for
people who didn't know html.
Early platforms – Open Diary, LiveJournal late '90s
Blogger -started 1999 by Evan Williams (also Twitter) and
Meg Hourihan; purchased by Google 2003
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Movable Type – 2001; Six Apart
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Wordpress – 2003; can host yourself or on their site
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Now Tumblr, Posterous, Pinterest
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Content Management Systems
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Wordpress has often been modified as CMS
Drupal
Joomla
Web Frameworks
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Set up frameworks for Web programming
languages
Easy way to provide for common methods and
actions; connection to database
Ruby on Rails – written in Rails
Django - Python
CakePHP
Data Visualization is the Future
Open Source Tools
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Google – Charts and Fusion Tables
Scraperwiki
Impure, Yahoo Pipes
ManyEyes
Protovis
Tableau Public
Timeflow
Challenges Ahead
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Lots to learn
Different ways to tell stories
Programming
Focus
Innovate!