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Basic Web Design (Beginners)

Basic Web Site Design (Beginners)

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  • What is a website? Why use one? What is (X)HTML? Browser Compatibility, Maintenance, Hyperlinks & Anchors, Structure, Images, Tags, Style, Tracking & Statistics, Publishing, Advertising, What's next? Course Objectives
  • Mark-up a text document with tags to describe how the document should look in a web browser. World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) (Extensible)Hyper-Text Markup Language ([X]HTML)
  • Open Source (Bluefish, Amaya), Free (CoffeeCup Free HTML Editor, HTML-Kit), Commercial (Adobe Dreamweaver CS4) HTML Editors
  • Pre-made website templates and frameworks, including all you need for a professional site. Templates / Frameworks / Content Management System (CMS)
  • Categorise the website (Personal, Informative, Commercial), Domain & Hosting needed? Graphics, Accept User Input? Store User Information? The Planning Stage
  • Differences across Internet Explorer 5-8, Mozilla / Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Opera, Google Chrome, Konqueror Browser Comparison
  • Updating the website, mechanism to reduce amount of changes needed to be duplicated (headers, sections, footers) Continual Maintenance
  • A sample (X)HTML document, with a walk-through explanation Basic (X)HTML Document
  • The opening html tag, the middle bit and the closing html tag Opening and Closing html Tags
  • Contents are non-displaying. Contains Meta-Tags, Programming Scripts, Document Formatting and Language Information The head Tag
  • Set the Page Title The title Tag
  • Contains the content to be displayed and determines how the content will look when displayed The body Tag
  • Mechanism for linking between pages, documents or other websites. Generally contains a Hyper-Link Reference (href) which is a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) Hyperlinks & Anchors
  • Structure: Tables are used to display information in rows and columns Tables
  • Structure: Defines a division or a section. Often used to group block-elements to format them with styles Divisions / Sections (div)
  • Enhance pages, use as hyperlinks or for navigation. All images require a source (src) Images
  • Additional descriptors for a tag. Interpreted by browser to display the element in it's entirety (tag + attribute) Attributes
  • Present information about an HTML document to browsers, search engines, and other applications META Tags
  • Colour is created by mixing values of Red, Green and Blue (RGB) value. Can be set by name (red), using a hexadecimal value (#FF0000) or by rbg value [rgb(255, 0, 0)] (Web) Colours
  • Styles provide tools to determine how each HTML tag will display and provides the ability to create custom styles that can be used anywhere in the document. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) format documents Style / Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
  • Poorly designed graphic and multi-media distract from the sites content but the lack of them can be responsible for a quick exit Graphics & Multimedia
  • Who (location) visited my site? How long did they stay? What page did they exit on? Visitor Tracking & Statistics
  • Transferring the website to a hosting provider - getting it on-line! Publishing & File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
  • Getting visitors to the website, Pay-per-Click (PPC), Google Adwords, Link Exchanges Advertising
  • Advanced Hardware & Peripherals (Examination & Installation), Advanced Web Site Building What's next?
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