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Website Designers Goal
Evolve from
know-nothing,
nat-brain
rookies …
Reference Websites:
http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.html
http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~au/workshop/int-def.htm
http://www.profitgate.net/webchart.html
http://www.build-it-yourself.com/project-website/
into
Incredible
Website
Designers
Website Designers Plan
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6.
How the Internet works
Web page vocabulary
Web page grammar
Tricks
Pictures, Audio, Video
Build-Your-Own-Site
www.Build-It-Yourself.com
Internet Components
Your local
Internet
Service
You, Provider
Client
Type a URL like ‘www.build-it-yourself.com’ in the
address bar of your Web browser.
Your local ISP (or Internet Service Provider)
will convert this URL to an IP (or Internet Protocol)
address by looking it up on a Domain Name Server.
Domain
Name
Server
Your local ISP will then request a Web page
from the Internet at the appropriate IP address.
Internet Components
Routers
&
Your local
Internet Switches
Service
You, Provider
Client
Domain
Name
Server
Routers
&
Switches
Website
Internet
Service
Provider
Route
Server
INTERNET BACKBONE
A Route Server will determine the best route from your ISP to the ISP that hosts
the Website you want.
Internet Components
Routers
&
Your local
Internet Switches
Service
You, Provider
Client
Domain
Name
Server
Routers
&
Switches
Website
Internet
Service Website
Provider Host
Server
Route
Server
INTERNET BACKBONE
When the Website Internet Service Provider gets a Web page request,
it sends back all the information necessary to display that Web page to the
IP address associated with your client computer.
Internet Definitions
Internet
The name given to the collective electronic network of computers and
computer networks which are inter-connected throughout the world.
Like a network of highways.
WorldWideWeb – WWW
The name given to the collection of computers which serve information in
hypertext format to the INTERNET
Like the US Post Office that uses the
network of highways to deliver letters
based on ZIP codes.
Internet Definitions
Server
A server is a computer that controls information on a network.
Domain Name Server
Translates a Web address like www.hotshot.com to an IP address like
231.987.520.52
Internet Definitions
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language
the text markup language used to insert tags which allow a Web browser to
correctly display a hyper-text document.
<font color = “red”> Title </font>
How many HTML commands are there?
Web Browser (What are 2 popular browsers?)
Application that converts HTML to a screen display
HTML
What is HTML ?
• Stands for: Hypertext Markup Language
• Is the document format used on the world wide web
• Is read by web browsers that then display the web page
What are browsers ?
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Internet Definitions
Client
Dial Up / DSL / Cable / T1 transmission speed
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
Domain Name Servers
IP address (Intrnet Protocol)
Routers / Switches
Server
TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
Project Planning (Teamwork)
• Share ideas
• Build on others’ ideas
• 2 heads better than 1 … teamwork
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Go to ‘Projects’
Scroll down to ‘Incredible Web Designers’
Click on ‘Intro HTML page’
View Source and edit the color and text.
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View / Source Code
html file sections (index.html)
<html>
<head>
< ! - - page description info - - >
</head>
<body>
< ! - - page layout code - - >
</body>
</html>
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Web Design
Hot Shot Web Designer
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HTML Source Code Body Section
Indent your code so it can be read and edited easily.
<body bgcolor=“purple”>
< ! - - The Title Section Starts Here - - >
<center>
<font size=“6” color=“red” face=“arial”>
Hot Shot Web Designer
</font>
<img src=“turnip-head.jpg” border=1>
</center>
</body>
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Web Design
Bad HTML code
Good HTML code
<html><head><title> Hot Shot Web
Designers </title><meta
name=“keywords” content=hot shots,
smarties, your name> <meta name=
“description” content=Best Web
designers on the planet!></head>
<body bgcolor=purple><!-- The Title
Section Starts Here --><center>
<font size=6 color=red face=arial>Hot
Shot Web Designer<p></font><img
src="images/head-turnip.jpg" border=1
width="250"
height="367"></center></body></html>
<html>
<head>
<title> Hot Shot Web Designers </title>
<meta name=“keywords” content=
hot shots, smarties, your name>
<meta name= “description” content=
Best Web designers on the planet!>
</head>
<body bgcolor=purple>
<!-- The Title Section Starts Here -->
<center>
<font size=6 color=red face=arial>
Hot Shot Web Designer<p>
</font>
<img src="images/head-turnip.jpg" border=1>
</center>
</body>
</html>
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Editing A Simple Table
Add text here that
describes your research,
storylines, goals, and
solution.
Add text here that
describes your research,
storylines, goals, and
solution.
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Editing Simple Table
<div align="center">
<table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5" width="650">
<tr>
<td width="250" valign="top" align="left">
<img border="0" src="images/placemark.jpg">
</td>
<td width="400" valign="top" align="left">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="gray">
Team 1:<br>
Add text here that describes your research, storylines, goals, and solution.
</font>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="250" valign="top" align="left">
<img border="0" src="images/placemark.jpg">
</td>
<td width="400" valign="top" align="left">
<font face="Times New Roman" size="4" color="gray">
Team 2<br>
Add text here that describes your research, storylines, goals, and solution.
</font>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
<p>
Change Image
Change Text
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Favorite Web Sites
Build Your Own Toys
http://www.build-it-yourself.com/
Mechanical Toys
http://www.cabaret.co.uk/
Mechanisms
http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/mechanisms/
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Deployment (FTP / Backup)
You can set up a free Web Server space at:
www.yahoo.tripod.com
Designing your Web site
Design, code and link 3 pages that would let an alien from
another universe know who you are.
Possible sections include:
1) Goals and accomplishments
2) Hobbies and interests
3) Friends and heroes
4) Favorite quotes and jokes
5) Short story about how you would like your future to
unfold.
Preparing Images
1. Capture JPG’s and GIF’s from Web sites
2. Make your own image in Power Point, Appleworks Paint
3. Download photos from a camera
Process image in:
Photoshop
Paintshop Pro
Free Online Tool for editing gif’s (crop and size):
http://www.gifworks.com
File Structure Folders
Web Site
index.html
Section ‘n’
Section 1
sec-1.html
Sec1 Images
sec-n.html
Sec1 Images
Website Map and Navigation
Home Page
Favorite
Stuff
Hobbies
Friends
Heroes
Favorite
Web sites
File Structure
File Names
1)
patrick-home-page.html Use long descriptive
names like
2) Use lower case text
3) Use “-” not “_” or “ “ like hot-shot.html
not hot_shot.html or
not hot shot.html
4) Use no special letters!
Pictures, Audio and Video
This is how to embed an audio:
<embed src=“burp.wav” autostart=true>
Record or search for an audio file
and then embed it in your page.
Development (Code Tricks)
Design your Web site so that no page, including pictures,
requires more than 100k bytes of download data.
Time to view a page that requires 100K of information
___ Telephone modem download time.
___ Cable download time.
___ DSL download time.
___ Wireless download time.
___ T1 download time.
Development (Code Tricks)
You can add interesting background effects or a
background image. If you do this, make sure your page
information does not get lost in a complex background
picture.
<body background=“sparkle-background.gif”>
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