Transcript Web Design
Web Design Verse of the Day "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." - Psalm 46:10 Topics • • • • History Business Uses Important Legal Issues HTML Who Built the Internet? • • • • • • Bill Gates? Al Gore? Steve Jobs? IBM? Government? God? United State DOD • Department of Defense – Created ARPANet • Advanced Research Projects Agency Network – Late 1960’s into the 70’s Why the Army? • Benefits – Troop control – Shared intelligence – Shared research The Internet goes to College • 1970’s – 1980’s • Loads of research and development of ARPANet • Major Contributors – UCLA – Duke – Stanford – UC Santa Barbara – Utah Beginnings of Public Use • X.25 – First to allow public access to businesses • Who was the first company to offer e-mail and chatting? – AOL? – Netscape? – CompuServe? – Prodigy? TCP/IP…just a bunch of letters? • Loosely defined internet • Loads of networks – No communication between • Internet Protocol Suite – Allows different networks to ‘talk’ to each other • All computers connected to the Net use this Down to Business • Commerce originally forbidden • Universities did not want the ‘uneducated’ in their party • Internet could not have survived without business • First dial-up service? – World.std.com • I kid you not Why Commerce? • Amazon.com – Proved viability of the web • Why is the internet an option for business? Legality of the Net • Censorship – Free speech vs. Protection • Copyright – Property laws – Digital Millennium Copyright Act Safety • MySpace • Facebook • Blogs – Keep private information private – Add only those you know as friends – No need for everyone to know what you had for lunch Browsers • • • • • Internet Explorer Apple Safari Mosaic Opera Netscape Viewing the Web • Made possible by Tim Berners-Lee – Created HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) – System of code • Berners-Lee never made any money off of this development – Allowed code to be ‘open-source’ World Wide Web Consortium • Chaired by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT • Makes upgrades and changes to HTML • Helps set rules and protocol for internet HTML • Code that dictates how web pages are viewed and accessed • All other web codes are reliant on HTML Ways to code • Text editors – Word – Textpad – Wordpad • Web-based editors – Basically same as text • WYSIWYG – What you see is what you get Why learn code? • Most WYSWYG editors add their own junk • Must be able to make changes on the fly • Easier to make any changes if you know the language WYSWYG Editors • Microsoft FrontPage • Adobe Dreamweaver • Mozilla SeaMonkey