1. Building Websites and weblogs for university Professors Razi herbal medicines research center workshop Presenter: Mehdi Pedram

2. Workshop’s planning An introduction to the structure of websites and Web Pages Blogging systems and how to use them How to build websites with free services Additional points (Uploading the files and uploading services, shortening URLs, …)

3. Introduction to the structure of websites and Web Pages Web addresses or URLs Domains and sub domains Web Hosts What happens when you enter a web address in your browser’s address bar The structure of Web pages and HTML Web page editors

4. Web addresses or URLs URL (Uniform Resource Locator) http :// www.MySite.com /MyDir/ index.html protocol Server(host)Name(address) Address on server file name * http: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

5. Domains and sub domains What is a domain? The hierarchical structure of domain names –Example : lums.ac.ir DNS How to register a domain?

6. Web Hosts (Web servers) What is a web host? Types of web hosting plans –Dedicated servers –Shared hosting –VPS (Virtual private Servers)

7. What happens when you enter a web address in your browser’s address bar Converting the domain name to a network address (IP) Requesting the page from the server Receiving the page from server and trying to show its contents Receiving the page’s components like Images or audio or other files

8. The structure of Web pages and HTML This is the title of the page This is a big header And this is a common paragraph some bold text and some Italic some other text

9. Web page editors Microsoft Web expression (FrontPage) Adobe Dream Weaver Text editors like Microsoft word or even simple editors like notepad! Web based page editors...

10. Blogging systems and how to use them Using your own host and domain Using free blogging services

11. Blogging systems and how to use them Using your own host and domain Using free blogging services

12. Some free Blogging Services Wordpress.com Blogsopt.com Livejournal.com Blogfa.com (our example) Persianblog.com Mihanblog.com Parsiblog.com

13. Building websites with free services (our example : persiangig.com)

14. Additional points File sharing and storage sites (4shared.com, persiandrive.com, rapidshare.com, mediafire.com, …) Image hosting sites (imageshack.us, free- imagehosting.com, photodekho.com, …) Sharing videos and embedding them in your pages (vimeo, youtube, …) How to shorten URLs and make them easier

15. Thank you for your attention Have a nice day