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WEB BASICS:
WHAT IS THE WEB?
The Non-Designer’s Design Book by Robin Williams
The Internet – History and Stats
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Early versions were created by the US Department
of Defense
1989 – researchers want to share data
 Tim
Berners-Lee
 Technology available to the public domain in 1993
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http://www.internetlivestats.com
What’s on the Internet?
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Search engines
Blogs
Wiki’s
Podcasts
Social Networking Sites
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What have you been involved with?
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Internet Basics
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Home Page – Usually the first page of a website
that acts like a table of contents for the site.
 Some
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sites have Entry Pages
Web Browser – You must have this to view web
pages
 Examples:
Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari
 NOT ALL WEB BROWSERS SHOW PAGES THE SAME
WAY.
Web Browser Usage Stats
Web Addresses and URL’s
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Web Address – all pages have one, just like our
houses have addresses
URL – Uniform Resource Locator: another name for
a web address
Web Addresses and URL’s
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Web Address – all pages have one, just like our
houses have addresses
URL – Uniform Resource Locator: another name for
a web address
http://www.ratz.com/robin/hats.html
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol – tells you the page your are on is on the
World Wide Web. Can also be ftp:// which allows you to use the
Internet to transfer files.
Web Addresses and URL’s
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Web Address – all pages have one, just like our
houses have addresses
URL – Uniform Resource Locator: another name for
a web address
http://www.ratz.com/robin/hats.html
World Wide Web
Web Addresses and URL’s
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Web Address – all pages have one, just like our
houses have addresses
URL – Uniform Resource Locator: another name for
a web address
http://www.ratz.com/robin/hats.html
Domain Name – Who owns this site? Other examples are
yahoo.com,Toyota.com. You buy these!
Web Addresses and URL’s
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Web Address – all pages have one, just like our
houses have addresses
URL – Uniform Resource Locator: another name for
a web address
http://www.ratz.com/robin/hats.html
The path that tells the browser where to find your
Web page, after finding the domain name.
Top Level Domains (e.g.: .com)
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Shows the nature of the web site
Other abbreviations:
 .net
– network organization
 .org – usually non-profits
 .edu – educational (usually post-secondary)
 .gov – government
 .mil – military
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Country Codes – example: www.bbc.co.uk
 Jp
(Japan), ca (Canada), uk (United Kingdom)
 Find any country code in the “Root Zone Database”
HTML: The Language of the Web
HTML
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Hyper Text Markup Language – we will learn this!
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Syntax – the rules of the language
 These
have changed over time
 Current version is 5.0
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HTML rules and standards (syntax) was developed
by the W3C – World Wide Web Consortium
 www.w3.org
HTML Documents
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Consists of 2 things
 Document
Content
 HTML Tags
 Save as filename.html or filename.htm
<Tag Name> Document Content </Tag Name>
 Opening
Tag
 Closing Tag
 One sided vs. two sided
 Tags are NOT case sensitive, but standard is to
capitalize
Publishing and Hosting
Finding a home for your site
Find a host
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If you leave your finished files on your computer, no
one will ever see your site.
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Find a “host” who can store your files on a server.
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Usually, you will FTP your files to your host.
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The space on the server for your files is usually not
free, so expect to spend some money.
Find a domain name
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Many companies can sell you a domain name
Master list is used throughout the world
Usually sales are in yearly increments
What’s available??
 Try
searching the web for it now
 Sometimes name is taken, but not used
 Have to use the WhoIs database to find out who has
registered for the name you want
 www.easywhois.com
 My favorite is: www.NetworkSolutions.com
Partner Activity
With a partner, think of a domain name that you want to try to
“buy” (school appropriate, please!)
1. Write your domain name.
 Look on the web and find two places you might try to use to
buy the domain and host the site from.
2. List these two sites.
3. Answer the following questions:
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a. What does your domain name cost for each place?
b. How much is hosting a small site going to run for each place?
c. Which one would you choose to host your site? Why?
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Print and hand into the basket. Be sure ALL names are on the
paper!