Web Design Study Guide

Oswego School District 308Plank Jr. High

Digital Imagery and Web DesignMr. Brown

Web Design Why build a Web Site? Worldwide Daily Internet Use Top Web Sites Worldwide URL’s Web Site Design Basics Dreamweaver

Why Build a Web Site? • __________________ (a.k.a., Portal) and ______________

www.yahoo.com www.espn.com www.bloomberg.com www.wikipedia.org www.mcdonalds.com

• Advertise, ______________, and make money (a.k.a. e-Commerce) www.amazon.com www.ebay.com www.homedepot.com www.ticketmaster.com www.expedia.com www.eastbay.com www.abercrombieandfitch.com

• Provide ______________ and make money www.visa.com www.tcfbank.com

• Promote a product and make money www.sixflags.com www.mlb.com www.sandiegozoo.org www.atlantis.com

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Why Build a Web Site? (cont.) • ______________ and to meet people with like minds (a.k.a. – Blogs)

Note: Most of these are blocked for school computers. www.facebook.com www.sina.com.cn www.linkedin.com www.chicagohoops.com

• Create gaming communities and make money www.shockwave.com www.worldofwarcraft.com

• _______________________ communicate with Taxpayers www.irs.gov www.nasa.gov www.nps.gov

• Schools to share information with Students and Parents www.oswego308.org www.itt.edu www.johnshopkins.edu

• And many more reasons…

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Worldwide Daily Internet Use*

* According to http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

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Top Web Sites Worldwide*

* According to http://www.alexa.com/topsites

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URL’s (_______________________) Also known as “______________” Examples: www.oswego308.org or www.google.com URL’s must be register to a specific owner www.register.com It costs $$$$ (about $30/yr.) Regional Internet Registries (RIR’s) oversee

registration of URL’s within a particular part of the world. There are 5 RIRs in operation:– Asia and Australia region - Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)– Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia region - RIPE Network Coordination

Centre (RIPE NCC)– North America region - American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). In the United

States it’s the responsibility of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers

(ICANN)

– Latin America region - Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry (LACNIC)

– Africa region - African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) Read this page on www.wikipedia.org to better

understand how Internet Domain Naming System works– http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_name_system

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About URL’s (cont.) URL ______________ are intended to have following

meaning:.com Commercial Used by businesses .net Network Used by Service providers initially, now also used by many businesses .org Organization Used by non-profit organizations .edu Education Used by Universities, schools and related bodies.gov Government Used by Government departments and affiliates.info Information Site is designed to provide information rather than sell products or

services.biz Business Used by Businesses, although less common than alternatives above

Often, you will see more letters after the three letter extension. For example www.sina.com.cn– It indicates what country the web site is based– A lack of a country code suggests the United States

Some ______________ are:.au Australia.uk United Kingdom.ca Canada.jp Japan.mx Mexico.cn China.vn Vietnam

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For a complete list see - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

Web Site Design Basics ______________ Your Web Site

– Who is your intended audience– Creating and organizing content (i.e., Text, Animations, Images, Podcasts,

Videos)– Organize Your Web Pages via a ______________ (i.e., hierarchy of your

web site)– Basic ______________– How Frequently Does the Content Change– Generating traffic and finding advertisers

Web Site Essentials– Page Banner (provides a consist look and feel)– ______________ (these show up on the browser tab and help get your web

site found through Google searches)– ______________ where should it be on the page?– ______________ page– ______________ page– About Us page– Contact Us page– Interactivity (Blogs or ability for users to post comments)– ______________ (This is how you make $$$)– ______________ – Language translation– For large web sites:

• Search within• Site Map page

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The Pirate

Traveler

Home Page

index.html

North America

Famous Place

Web Page

northamerica.html

South America

Famous Place

Web Page

southamerica.html

Europe

Famous Place

Web Page

europe.html

Asia

Famous Place

Web Page

asia.html

Africa

Famous Place

Web Page

africa.html

Australia

Famous Place

Web Page

australia.html

Antarctica

Famous Place

Web Page

antarctica.ht

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Web Site Design Basics (cont.) What should the URL or Domain Name

– Has it already been registered by someone else– www.whois.com

______________ – Where will you host it and how much will it cost?– Will it perform and how much storage space will they give you?– Is their service 24 hours a day 7 days a week

HTML (Stands for __________________________)– It’s the ______________ of the Internet– Includes Tags (for example <html>, <body>, <head>, </html>– The tags are read by your Internet Browser

Web Page Development Tools– ______________ – Dreamweaver and Kompzer are examples

Web Site Testing– Preview in ______________ browsers before you “Go Live”– Make sure all the Multi-media content will play– Make sure all ______________– Tests the Interactivity (i.e., Blog/comment posting)

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Web Site Design Basics (cont.)

Internet Browsers ______________ – Internet Explorer– Foxfire– Chrome– Safari– Opera

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* According to http://www.netmarketshare.com

Dreamweaver CS4 Defining Your Site (______________ info) Organizing Contents into ___________ (i.e., Animations, Images, Podcasts, Videos) Use Windows to copy content into your site _________ (Code, Split, or Design)

Properties Panel

Creating Web Pages– Formatting Text and Colors via _____________ helps give your web site a

uniform look

Use ________ to layout content on the web page– Merging cells– Helps give your web site a ______________

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Dreamweaver CS4 (cont.) Inserting and ______________ (Thumbnails, etc.) Inserting and ______________ (Videos and Podcasts)

The Properties Panel allows you to create Hyperlinks– ______________ – On Text and Images (i.e., __________ )

______________ is used to create links from page to page within your web site

Previewing in Browser– Preview in multiple browsers (IE, Chrome, Safari)– Must do this before Publishing!

___________ Web Sites to Remote Locations

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