Build a personal website with pictures, links, and favorite stuff. 1) Respect teammates 2) Respect equipment 3) No bad things

Build a personal website with pictures, links, and favorite stuff.

1) Respect teammates

2) Respect equipment

3) No bad things

AUDIENCE

Friends, Kids my age and people looking for some good Real Time Strategy games.

GOALS

Share games and things about me

Ugly

Average

Way Cool

You can set up a free Web Server space at:

www.yahoo.tripod.com

Url for Websites built in B-I-Y workshops:

http://biyweb.tripod.com

FTP URL for transferring files from your computer to the tripod web server:

PWD: password

Website Designers Goal

Evolve fromknow-nothing,

nat-brainrookies …

intoIncredibleWebsite

Designers

Reference Websites:http://navigators.com/internet_architecture.htmlhttp://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~au/workshop/int-def.htmhttp://www.profitgate.net/webchart.htmlhttp://www.build-it-yourself.com/project-website/

Website Designers Plan

1. How the Internet works2. Web page vocabulary3. Web page grammar4. Tricks5. Pictures, Audio, Video6. Build-Your-Own-Site

www.Build-It-Yourself.com

Set up your work folders.


documents

Desktop

your nameyourname-lab-book.pptyourname-web-page.html

C: orHard Drive

images

cat.jpgball.gifsong.wavmovie.wmv

Never leave your files on the desktop. Files left on the desktop will get deleted.

You,Client

Internet Components

DomainNameServer

Type a URL like ‘www.build-it-yourself.com’ in theaddress 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.

Your local ISP will then request a Web pagefrom the Internet at the appropriate IP address.

Your localInternetService

Provider

RouteServer

You,Client

Internet Components

DomainNameServer

Routers&

Switches

I N T E R N E T B A C K B O N E

A Route Server will determine the best route from your ISP to the ISP that hosts the Website you want.

Your localInternetServiceProvider

Routers&

SwitchesWebsiteInternetServiceProvider

RouteServer

You,Client

Internet Components

DomainNameServer

Routers&

Switches

I N T E R N E T B A C K B O N E

Your localInternetServiceProvider

Routers&

Switches

WebsiteHost

Server

WebsiteInternetService

Provider

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.


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


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

http://www.hotshot.com/


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)

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 is ?


HTML

What are browsers ?

View / Source Code

html file sections (index.html)

<html>

<head>

< ! - - page description info - - >

</head>

<body>

< ! - - page layout code - - >

</body>

</html>


View Source Code / Save As / Edit


Find a Web page you like.

View ‘Source’

Save as ‘intro-page.html’ in a folder named ‘your name’ in the folder ‘My Documents’

My Documents/john/intro-page.html

Launch a text editor like Notepad or Simple Text. Open the file, ‘intro-page.html’

Create a sub-folder called ‘images’ and save your favorite pictures in this folder.

Edit the tags, text and image names. Then save the html file.

Launch Internet Explorer. File / Open ‘intro-page.html’

Click on ‘Refresh’ after an edit is made and saved.

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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> www.Build-It-Yourself.com


Web Design

Hot Shot Web Designer

Bad HTML code


Web Design

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><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> <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>

Project Planning (Teamwork)

• Share ideas• Build on others’ ideas• 2 heads better than 1 … teamwork

www.build-it-yourself.com Go to ‘Projects’Scroll down to ‘Incredible Web Designers’Click on ‘Intro HTML page’View Source and edit the color and text.


http://www.build-it-yourself.com/


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.

<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> www.Build-It-Yourself.com

Editing Simple Table

Change Image

Change Text

Favorite Web Sites

Build Your Own Toyshttp://www.build-it-yourself.com/

Mechanical Toyshttp://www.cabaret.co.uk/

Mechanismshttp://www.flying-pig.co.uk/mechanisms/


http://www.build-it-yourself.com/

http://www.cabaret.co.uk/

http://www.flying-pig.co.uk/mechanisms/

Deployment (FTP / Backup)

You can set up a free Web Server space at:www.yahoo.tripod.com

http://www.yahoo.tripod.com/

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

http://www.gifworks.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.

Website Map and Navigation

Home Page

FavoriteStuff

Friends FavoriteWeb sites

Hobbies Heroes

File Structure Folders

Web Site

index.html Section 1 Section ‘n’

Sec1 Imagessec-1.html sec-n.html Sec1 Images

File Structure

File Names1) Use long descriptive names like

patrick-home-page.html2) Use lower case text3) Use “-” not “_” or “ “ like hot-shot.html

not hot_shot.html or not hot shot.html

4) Use no special characters in names Ex. !@#$%^&*()+5) Do not use more than 27 characters

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)

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”>

Hannah

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.