Web Design

Web Design – What’s Involved  The Client – listening and mind reading

Web Design – What’s Involved  The Client – listening and mind reading  Planning Stage – 90% of the work goes here

Web Design – What’s Involved  The Client – listening and mind reading  Planning Stage – 90% of the work goes here  The Actual Design – throwing on the glitter

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Web Design – What’s Involved  The Client – listening and mind reading  Planning Stage – 90% of the work goes here  The Actual Design – throwing on the glitter  Making It Actually Work – making sure the glitter doesn’t fall off

Web Design Education

Things to think about  Can I learn this, or is it a natural talent?

Things to think about  Can I learn this, or is it a natural talent?  Where to expand those thinking muscles

Web & Application Development Behind the scenes with the code…

Microsoft or Open Source  Business needs/requirements VS  Developers Preferences

Things to think about  What does my website do?  What data does my website need to store?  How do I want it to look like?  How do I want to interact with it?  What reporting will I need?

Things to think about  What does my application do?  What data does my application need to store?  How do I want the application to look like?  How do I want to interact with it?  What reporting will I need?

Design Perspective 3 Things  Model Business Logic/ How is it designed  View How does it look  Data (Controller) The data / What specifics are you representing

Platforms  Websites for Business  Applications for Home  CMS, Typo3, WordPress, Drupal  SharePoint  ERPs Dynamics AX, GP, NAV, SL; Epicor  CRM Microsoft CRM, Sugar CRM, Salesforce

Web & Application Development Hosted elsewhere in the Cloud?

Big Movement  Future of Web and Business  Future of Gaming  Future of Design, Video, Photography  Decide for yourself!

Cloud Computing What is Cloud? What can I use it for? What does it mean for me? Does it cost anything to develop?

Amazon Web Services

Azure (Microsoft)

Google App Engine

Open Gov Data Initiative

Web 2.0

Open Web / Web 2.0

Social Media  Facebook, Twitter, G+, LinkedIn, YouTube  Future is SOCIAL  How do you build a better website that leverage social capabilities?

Web Design & Development Content Management Systems (CMS)

Content Management Systems  What are they?

Content Management Systems  What are they?  Why do I need to know about them?

Content Management Systems  What are they?  Why do I need to know about them?  Aren’t they kind of cheating?

Web Design & Development User Experience

 Why can’t my users read my mind?

User Experience  Why can’t my users read my mind?  How to read the users mind

Mobile Development  Apple iPhone  Google Android  Windows 8 Phone  Others RIM Blackberry 10, HP webOS, Nokia Symbian

Game Development  What Game do I love? How many hours?  Is there a SDK or an Engine that I can use to MOD it?  XNA Game Studio (for Visual Studio), Unity 3d, Unreal 3 Engine, Crytek CryEngine 3, Engine, Bethesda’s Creation Engine, Source Engine SDK, iD Tech 5

APPENDIX FOLLOWS  Model Design Visualization Software  Useful Software for Web/Application Dev.  Useful Tutorial Websites  Cloud Services  Mobile Development Software  Game Engine Lists  Acronyms

Model Design Visualisation  MS Visio  MSSQL/MySQL (Table Views)  UML (Unified Modeling Language)  A great way to build a design is the see it visually until it looks right.

Useful Software for Web For Web Development  Xampp (Apache2, MySQL, PHP) (LAMP,MAMP,WAMP)  CMS (Typo3, Wordpress, Drupal)  DreamWeaver, Zend Studio, PHP Dev Studio, JCreator, Eclipse, NetBeans and others  Valuable Languages PHP, Java, C#, VB.net, SQL, CSS, JavaScript

Useful Software For Application Development  NUnit  SVN, GIT, Team Viewer (Version Control)  Notepad++  Visual Studio (Free Ed) (C#, C++,C, VB.NET)  Valuable Languages Java, C#, VB.net, SQL  MySQL or MSSQL

Useful Websites (tutorials)  W3schools   CSSZenGarden   Tizag   DynamicDrive 

Websites (Cloud)  Amazon Web Services  Azure (Microsoft)  Google App Engine  OGDI Project

Mobile Development Software For Mobile App Development  Objective-C, (Apple iDevices) iPhone SDK  Java, C++,C (Android) Android SDK  Windows 8 RT SDK  Custom Tools  Thing to research: Do you want your app to be on one market or both?

Game Engine Sites:  Unity  Games made with:  XNA Game Studio  Games made with:  Unreal 3 Engine  Games made with:  Crytek CryEngine 3  Games made with:  Bethesda’s Creation Engine  Ships with Steam and need a copy of Skyrim  Source Engine SDK (Ships with Steam which is Free)  Games made with:  iD Tech 5 (Not available for Licensing at this time.)  Games made with:

Acronyms  CSS –Cascading Style Sheets  UML – Unified Modeling Language  PHP – PHP Hypertext Preprocessor  CMS – Content Management System  SQL – Structured Query Language  SDK – Software Development Kit  SVN - Subversion