PUBLISHING TO THE WORLD WIDE WEB Mrs. Wilson Dreamweaver Web Design Rocky Point High School

Publishing Your Web Site Publishing allows the site to be accessed on the World Wide Web A published website will be viewed on more than one monitor size “Uploading” means to post files to a web server FTP is a common method of publishing to a web server FTP is an acronym for File Transfer Protocol

Publishing Your Site Sites that have been saved and edited on a local disk are referred to as remote sites Once a website is published, it needs attention on a regular basis—updating a site is ongoing and time-consuming A website with spelling or grammar errors seems less credible and is a poor reflection of the developer—YOU! The main function of a web host is to provide space on the WWW for a fee

Things to Consider A website should only be tested in one target browser Firefox Opera Netscape Internet Explorer Broken links affect the navigation structure of the website Every website image should have Alt text

Download Time This is the time it takes to load the web page document into a user’s browser You can see this time in Dreamweaver on the bottom right side of your screen

Download Time Things that affect download time: Size of images—The larger the image, the longer it takes the page to load. You can compress an image using PaintShopPro Types of scripts that you choose to run Dynamic drive has MANY scripts, but always take the time to check the number of seconds a page takes to download You should aim for 30 seconds or less for a download time

Weight of a Page on the Web The weight of the page is the web page document’s estimated download time and the file size

Font Size and Color Combinations The best size for a font on the WWW is 14 points The best color combination is BLACK TEXT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND

Document Links— The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly! Document-relative hyperlink to a web page document that no longer exists is called a BROKEN LINK Broken links affect the navigation structure of the website A page that has no links to it in the entire site is called an ORPHANED LINK

Alignment Left Centered Right Justified Left, center, right, and justified text should be used appropriately when creating a web site Left Centered Right Justified