1 Assembling an Educational Website Setup Text Saving and Viewing

2 Assembling an Website Educational Initial Setup  Log onto computer (Mac) in ITC001 (turn on if necessary)  Connect to server: public_html  In finder, select GO and then Connect to Server  Type smb://homex/~username where x is the first letter of your username  An icon should appear on the desktop and the word public_html should appear in the Finder window when you open the Finder (leftmost icon in the dock)

3 Assembling an Website Educational Initial Setup (continued)  Start a new folder for this project  Click on public_html icon, then select New Folder under File  Name the new folder “myweb” (the computer should default so that you can immediately type “myweb”); you will put all webpage documents in this folder

4 Assembling an Website Educational Image First … Start another new folder Click on public_html icon and then on your myweb folder - Select New Folder under File >>> before you put them on your website >> before you put them on your website <<<

5 Assembling an Website Educational Initial Setup (continued)  Open DreamWeaver   Open a browser (Safari or Firefox recommended)

6 Assembling an Website Educational DreamWeaver setup With Dreamweaver open, New click on New under File, Blank Page then Blank Page HTML HTML (middle and Create finally Create (bottom right)

7 Assembling an Website Educational DreamWeaver setup In the upper left of the Dreamweaver screen click on “Split”

8 Assembling an Website Educational Introduction to HTML Basic tool : tags, e.g. ; Basic to each document (DW does this for you, and more) Title of the Webpage ----this is where you will enter most of your code---

9 Assembling an Website Educational Introduction to HTML Basic tool : tags, e.g. ; Basic to each document (DW does this for you, and more)

10 Assembling an Website Educational Introduction to Fundamentals of Webpage Design for ED421 T ext (think MS Word, it’s straight forward) I mages (pictures and don’t forget Photoshop) L inks (connections to other pages) T ables (layout design)

11 Assembling an Website Educational Text In DW, on the lower half of the split screen type some text, such as, “This is the Title of my First Webpage”

12 Assembling an Website Educational Text Save this document: Under File, click on Save As; click on the little blue square with little triangle at the right of the name box to see the full window and list of all folders Type in a name for your webpage Click on public_html and then ED421 (the folder you created above) and then click on Save

13 Assembling an Website Educational Text Save the document: Note the recommended rules for naming webpages) use only small letters Rule #1: Always use only small letters (to avoid confusion remembering if you used capitals or small letters) use Rule #2: Do not use special characters or spaces (they look ugly and confusing in the URL address for your users).htm or.html Rule #3: End the webpage name with.htm or.html (always use the same ending for consistency) short names Rule #4: Use short names (this is a recommendation) Example: first.html

14 Assembling an Website Educational Text View the document: Viewing your Webpages 1. Click on a browser (Safari or Firefox) to open it 2. Under File in the Menu, select Open File 3. Find your webpage (should be in public_html, in folder myweb), select your webpage 4. Click on Open (or double click on the webpage name)

15 Assembling an Website Educational Text View the document: Viewing your Webpages Ah ha!

16 Assembling an Website Educational Text View the document: Viewing your Webpages To view your webpage from other computers or your home computer: Open your browser Type (where username is your username, like jjones; myweb is the name of the folder you created earlier; and first.html is the name of your webpage you just saved)

17 Assembling an Website Educational Text Repeat this process with new document File>>New>>HTML>>none>Create Type some text Save and name; like second.html

18 Assembling an Educational Website Links

19 Assembling an Website Educational Links Links for Text or Images are very similar Highlight Text

20 Assembling an Website Educational Links Note the Link box in the Properties There several options at this point: Directly type in the complete URL of another webpage, eg. Directly type in the name of another document you have or will have in your myweb, eg. second.html Use the little blue folder icon to the right of the text box to browse for another one of your documents Point to the document name in the right column

21 Assembling an Website Educational Links Note the Link box in the Properties in both cases Highlight Text There several options at this point: Directly type in the complete URL of another webpage, eg.

22 Assembling an Website Educational Links Note the Link box in the Properties in both cases Highlight Text or click on an Image There several options at this point: type One is to directly type in the name of another document you have or will have in your myweb, eg. second.html

23 Assembling an Website Educational Links Note the Link box in the Properties in both cases Highlight Text or click on an Image There several options at this point: browse Another is to use the little blue folder icon to the right of the text box to browse for another one of your documents

24 Assembling an Website Educational Links Note the Link box in the Properties in both cases Highlight Text or click on an Image There several options at this point: Thirdly you can point directly to the document in the right column

25 Assembling an Website Educational Links You have mastered the technique of linking webpages At this point you may try several things: Go to second.html in Dreamweaver Highlight “Return to questions” Create a link to first.html Save both documents in myweb Open your browser Open webpage first.html Click on your link And again, and again

26 Assembling an Website Educational In Summary Logon to your computer in ITC001 Connect to public_html Create the myweb folder (first time only) Create the images folder (first time only) Open DreamWeaver, create documents Save images in the images folder (soon) Save webpages in myweb Open browser and open webpage, or Open browser and enter URL In Summary Logon to your computer in ITC001 Connect to public_html Create the myweb folder (first time only) Create the images folder (first time only) Open DreamWeaver, create documents Save images in the images folder (soon) Save webpages in myweb Open browser and open webpage, or Open browser and enter URL

27 Assembling an Educational Website Images

28 Assembling an Website Educational Image Second … Find an image From the Internet Search using a search engine like Google Download the actual image, probably to your Desktop, not a thumbnail From your camera Download from your camera to Desktop From the scanner Scan and move image to your Desktop

29 Assembling an Website Educational Image Second … Size and modify image In Photoshop, open the desired image Under Image, select Image size

30 Assembling an Website Educational Image Second … Size and modify image In Photoshop, open the desired image Under Image, select Image size Adjust the size Resolution of 72 is good for webpages A width of 800 is almost the full page, a width of 100 is quite small, a width of about 300 is very workable Click on OK

31 Assembling an Website Educational Image Second … Size and modify image In Photoshop, open the desired image Under Image, select Image size Adjust the size Resolution of 72 is good for webpages A width of 800 is almost the full page, a width of 100 is quite small, a width of about 300 is very workable Click on OK “Save for Web & Devices” under File

32 Assembling an Website Educational Image Second … Size and modify image In Photoshop, open the desired image Under Image, select Image size Adjust the size Resolution of 72 is good for webpages A width of 800 is almost the full page, a width of 100 is quite small, a width of about 300 is very workable Click on OK “Save for Web or Devices” under File Typically choose “jpeg”; click Save Save in your “image” folder which is in the myweb folder which is in the public_html Give the image a good name Save

33 Assembling an Website Educational Images Back in DW, on the lower half of the split screen place your cursor behind your text and press Return, this positions your image

34 Assembling an Website Educational Images Under View, select Image On the next screen, select your public_html folder, then your myweb folder, then your images folder, click on the name of your image, and click on Choose

35 Assembling an Website Educational Images Once your image is on your webpage, you can justify its position left, right and center; you can change the size; and more (see Properties at bottom of page) Note the names of your images in the code portion of the screen and also in the Properties Type in a name or word in Alt (this word will be read by the computer of blind persons) See next slide for visual

36 Assembling an Website Educational Images

37 Assembling an Website Educational Images Save this document: again and frequently Under File, click on Save (or use the key stroke shortcut) View your Webpage Click on a browser Under File in the top Menu, select Open File, and find your webpage document, or Type your address in the URL box, eg.

38 Assembling an Website Educational Images View this document: Ah ha!

39 Assembling an Website Educational Images Congratulations! You have the basic tools for designing a webpage. Now we will improve the way things look using CSS and Tables

40 Assembling an Educational Website CSS Cascading Style Sheets

41 Assembling an Website Educational CSS CSS is a way of describing how things look, such as text color, size and position; borders and margins; backgrounds and lists The options are innumerable – we’re going to use only a few at first Start to think of patterns that repeat throughout the webpage or website, such as heading text types, paragraph text, image margins, backgrounds of small sections of the page

42 Assembling an Website Educational CSS In the top Menu select Format (we will do this twice: once to create and once to apply) Select CCS Styles, then New

43 Assembling an Website Educational CSS In the next window there are three things to do 1 -We’ll leave Class as it is 2 – We’ll give our “style” a name 3 – We’ll leave the “this document only” as it is

44 Assembling an Website Educational CSS In the next window we will choose the features of our style, such as font family, size, color, weight, etc And click on OK

45 Assembling an Website Educational CSS Back on your webpage in Dreamweaver, highlight text or object to which you want to apply the style Again, go to Format in the Menu Choose CSS Styles Choose the name your gave to your style

46 Assembling an Educational Website Tables

47 Assembling an Website Educational Tables Before we use Tables we will explore their possibilities Think of Tables like a page divided into squares and rectangles; bricks, if you will; or similar to an Excel spreadsheet With your browser (Firefox or Safari) and critically view several websites: cnn.com, google.com, wou.edu/saxowsky/tech/eden/amind/ed421/index.ht ml, or others

48 Assembling an Website Educational Tables Notice CNN.com is somewhat complex but definable Google.com is essentially a non-table or a single cell table My webpage has two rows and two columns; this is a great place to start. I recommend this table!

49 Assembling an Website Educational Tables We’re getting close to designing the website, so in your mind, or on a scratch sheet, you can start to visualize your webpage. Let’s practice a table first! In DW, under File, create a New webpage, choose HTML (middle of the page) and click on Create (lower right) Click on the icon in the upper left to “split” the screen. Click your mouse in the lower half of the screen. Your table will be created where you click your mouse.

50 Assembling an Website Educational Tables Click on Insert and then choose Table Choose the number of rows and columns 800 is a good width (experiment!) Nothing in Border implies invisible Padding is like matting in the cell Spacing is the distance between cells

51 Assembling an Website Educational Tables The Table appears! Click in any cell and insert Text and Images as we have done in the past. Click on the central vertical line and drag it to adjust widths

52 Assembling an Website Educational Tables Click in any cell and insert Text and Images as we have in the past

53 Assembling an Website Educational Tables If you wish to modify the table, click on table under your webpage and make adjustments in the Properties! You can change background colors or add a background image here also. Put the image in your “images” folder first.

54 Assembling an Website Educational Tables and beyond One more thing: Under Modify in the menu of DW you can choose Page Properties. Here you can, and should, name your page. Here you can also change the color of all text and background.

55 Assembling an Educational Website Assignment and Strategies

56 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment Create a website! Create an educational website: Use the website to teach a lesson Use the website to outline a coursework or program Use the website to explain your class to parents/public Technical minimums: Homepage, plus Three additional pages (at least) Links from all pages back to homepage At least two links to other websites At least two images

57 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (strategies) Plan ahead!!! Design the homepage Plan the names* of the five additional pages Use the website to outline a coursework or program Use the website to explain your class to parents/public

58 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (strategies) Plan ahead!!! Design one (of the five) additional page(s) very well in detail including all links and colors (expect the images and text content to vary with each page) Save this page five times naming them the five *names

59 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (strategies) Design one (of the five) additional page(s) very well in detail including all links and colors (expect the images and text content to vary with each page) Save this page five times naming them the five *names

60 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (strategies) Return to each page and enter the appropriate content of text and images Save this page when revisions are made

61 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (strategies) Your public_html may, actually should, look something like this:

62 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (strategies) Your webpages should look something like this at minimum

63 Assembling an Website Educational Assignment (Congratulations) You have met the minimum requirements and now you can go back and decorate, add fancy buttons and other interesting and intriguing features.