Web Design

Verse of the Day "Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth." - Psalm 46:10

Topics History Business Uses Important Legal Issues HTML

Who Built the Internet? Bill Gates? Al Gore? Steve Jobs? IBM? Government? God?

United State DOD Department of Defense –Created ARPANet Advanced Research Projects Agency Network –Late 1960’s into the 70’s

Why the Army? Benefits –Troop control –Shared intelligence –Shared research

The Internet goes to College 1970’s – 1980’s Loads of research and development of ARPANet Major Contributors –UCLA –Duke –Stanford –UC Santa Barbara –Utah

Beginnings of Public Use X.25 –First to allow public access to businesses Who was the first company to offer and chatting? –AOL? –Netscape? –CompuServe? –Prodigy?

TCP/IP…just a bunch of letters? Loosely defined internet Loads of networks –No communication between Internet Protocol Suite –Allows different networks to ‘talk’ to each other All computers connected to the Net use this

Down to Business Commerce originally forbidden Universities did not want the ‘uneducated’ in their party Internet could not have survived without business First dial-up service? –World.std.com I kid you not

Why Commerce? Amazon.com –Proved viability of the web Why is the internet an option for business?

Legality of the Net Censorship –Free speech vs. Protection Copyright –Property laws –Digital Millennium Copyright Act

Safety MySpace Facebook Blogs –Keep private information private –Add only those you know as friends –No need for everyone to know what you had for lunch

Browsers Internet Explorer Apple Safari Mosaic Opera Netscape

Viewing the Web Made possible by Tim Berners-Lee –Created HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) –System of code Berners-Lee never made any money off of this development –Allowed code to be ‘open-source’

World Wide Web Consortium Chaired by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT Makes upgrades and changes to HTML Helps set rules and protocol for internet

HTML Code that dictates how web pages are viewed and accessed All other web codes are reliant on HTML

Ways to code Text editors –Word –Textpad –Wordpad Web-based editors –Basically same as text WYSIWYG –What you see is what you get

Why learn code? Most WYSWYG editors add their own junk Must be able to make changes on the fly Easier to make any changes if you know the language

WYSWYG Editors Microsoft FrontPage Adobe Dreamweaver Mozilla SeaMonkey