Web Design Lab Book

Website Designers Goal Evolve from know-nothing, nat-brain rookies … into Incredible Website Designers Reference Websites:

Favorite Web Sites Build Your Own Toys Mechanical Toys Mechanisms Pixar

Website Designers Plan 1. How the Internet works 2. Web page vocabulary 3. Web page grammar 4. Programming tricks 5. Pictures, Audio, Video 6. Web site plan and navigation 7. Build-Your-Own-Site

Website Development Tools Gimp: Freeware version of Photoshop. Free Online Tool for editing gif’s (crop and size). Free Online Tool for making animated gifs. Notepad++: Advanced Text Editor Setting up text editor on Mac’s design-textedit-tutorial.ppt

Project Planning (Teamwork) Share ideas Build on others’ ideas 2 heads better than 1 … teamwork Go to ‘Projects.’ Scroll down to ‘Incredible Web Designers.’ Download your lab book template.

You, Client Internet Components Domain Name Server Type a URL like ‘ 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. Your local ISP will then request a Web page from the Internet at the appropriate IP address. Your local Internet Service Provider

Route Server You, Client Internet Components Domain Name Server 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 local Internet Service Provider Routers & Switches Website Internet Service Provider

Route Server You, Client Internet Components Domain Name Server Routers & Switches I N T E R N E T B A C K B O N E Your local Internet Service Provider Routers & Switches Website Host Server Website Internet Service 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 Speed 4/10ths of a second … time to blink your eye. 3/10ths of a second … time to send a signal from Boston to China and back.

Web Design Hot Shot Web Designer

View / Source Code html file sections (index.html)

HTML Source Code Body Section Indent your code so it can be read and edited easily. Hot Shot Web Designer RGB FFFFFF – WHITE FF RED

Bad HTML code Web Design Good HTML code Hot Shot Web Designers Hot Shot Web Designer Hot Shot Web Designers <meta name=“keywords” content= hot shots, smarties, your name> <meta name= “description” content= Best Web designers on the planet!> Hot Shot Web Designer

Web Page Web Design HTML code Hot Shot Web Designer Browser Hot Shot Web Designer

View Source Code / Save As / Edit Find a Web page you like. View ‘Source’ COPY all source code to a text editor (Notepad or Apple Works). Save as ‘name-description.html’ in your folder in the folder ‘My Documents’ My Documents/john/john-turnip-head.html Create a sub-folder called ‘images’ and save your favorite pictures in this folder. To get pictures (JPG’s or GIF’s) from the Web, search Google Images. Right click (or CTRL click on Mac’s) on a picture and save the image to you images folder. Edit the tags, text and image names. Then save the html file. Launch Internet Explorer. File / Open ‘john-turnip-head.html’ Click on ‘Refresh’ after an edit is made and saved

Set up your work folders. documents Desktop your name yourname-lab-book.ppt yourname-web-page.html C: or Hard Drive images cat.jpg ball.gif song.wav movie.wmv Never leave your files on the desktop. Files left on the desktop will get deleted.

File Structure File Names 1)Use long descriptive names like school-date-name-description.html 2)Specify names in hierarchical order (Earth, Country, State, Street) 3)Use only lower case text. 4)Use “-” between words. Do not use “_” or “ “ Good: biy-hot-shot.html Bad:biy_hot_shot.html Bad:biy hot shot.html

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 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. Title How many HTML commands are there? Web Browser (What are 2 popular browsers?) Application that converts HTML to a screen display

Internet Definitions Server A server is a computer that controls information on a network. Domain Name Server Translates a Web address like to an IP address likewww.hotshot.com

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)

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.

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.

Editing A Simple Table row data table data

Team 1: Add text here that describes your research, storylines, goals, and solution. Team 2 Add text here that describes your research, storylines, goals, and solution. Editing Simple Table Change Image Change Text

Hot Shot Web Designer Home | Page 2 Navigation

Audio and Video You can embed sound effects or videos on a page: Record or search for an audio file (.WAV) or a video file (.WMV) Save the WAV or WMV files to your ‘images’ folder and then embed them inside your tags.

Scrolling Title You can embed sound effects or videos on a page: Record or search for an audio file (.WAV) or a video file (.WMV) Save the WAV or WMV files to your ‘images’ folder and then embed them inside your tags.

HTML Questions If you forget the format for an HTML command, search Google. Search Key Examples: - html table border color - html align text A good HTML code syntax reference is:

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. 4.Process images. Gimp: Freeware version of Photoshop. Free Online Tool for editing gif’s (crop and size). Free Online Tool for making animated gifs.

Designing your Web site Audience:Who are you speaking to? (Young, grown up, boys or girls? Interested in entertainment, hobbies, or evaluating your work?) Goals:Sell or Convince (For example, demonstrate that you have mastered HTML and therefore should have a budget to buy some new hardware or software) Share (Share a story, information, or links to cool sites.)

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 Favorite Stuff Friends Favorite Web sites HobbiesHeroes

File Structure Folders Web Site index.html Section 1 Section ‘n’ Sec1 Imagessec-1.htmlsec-n.html Sec1 Images

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. 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.

Deployment (FTP / Backup) A free website account can be created on Google also has a free web server (search for 'google web pages') Or students can use the BIY tripod account: UID: biyweb PWD: password To upload your files: 1) Click on ‘Build a site of your own’ 2) Click on ‘File Manager’ (top menu bar) 3) Click on ‘New Directory’ Create a new folder with your name. 4) Create a new directory in your 'name' folder called 'images' 5) Change 'upload via' to 'single files' Browse to select your html files and then click on upload to get them on the Tripod web server 6) Follow the same procedure to upload your jpg or gif files to the images folder. To view your files: You should see your new website at: You must create your own 'name' folder. Then home-page.html should be the main page file name of your website.

Deployment (FTP / Backup) You can set up a free Web Server space at: URL for Websites built in Build-It-Yourself Workshops FTP URL for transferring files from your computer to the Tripod Web Server ftp.tripod.com UID: biyweb PWD: password

Deployment (FTP / Backup) You can set up a free Web Server space at: URL for Websites built in Build-It-Yourself Workshops FTP URL for transferring files from your computer to the 000Webhost Web Server ftp://biy.herobo.comftp://biy.herobo.com ????? UID: PWD: west0000