Web Design Quiz Review Oswego School District 308

Web Design Quiz Review Oswego School District 308 Plank Jr. High Digital Imagery and Web Design Mr. Brown

Web Design n n Why Build a Web Site? Worldwide Internet Use Facts About URL’s Web Site Design Basics Dreamweaver

Why Build a Web Site? • Share information (a. k. a. , Portal) and make money Ø Ø Ø www. yahoo. com www. espn. com www. bloomberg. com www. wikipedia. org www. mcdonalds. com • Sell things and make money (i. e. , e-Commerce) Ø Ø Ø Ø • www. amazon. com www. ebay. com www. homedepot. com www. ticketmaster. com www. expedia. com www. eastbay. com www. abercrombieandfitch. com Provide financial services and make money Ø www. visa. com Ø www. tcfbank. com • Promote a product and make money Ø Ø www. sixflags. com www. mlb. com www. sandiegozoo. org www. atlantis. com

Why Build a Web Site? (cont. ) • Social networking and Blogs to meet people with like minds Ø Ø www. facebook. com www. sina. com. cn www. linkedin. com www. chicagohoops. com • Create gaming communities and make money Ø www. zynga. com Ø www. worldofwarcraft. com • Government Agencies communicate with Taxpayers Ø www. irs. gov Ø www. nasa. gov Ø www. nps. gov • Schools to share information with Students and Parents Ø www. oswego 308. org Ø https: //hac. oswego 308. org/homeaccess/ Ø www. johnshopkins. edu • And many more reasons…

Worldwide Daily Internet Use* * According to http: //www. internetworldstats. com/stats. htm

Worldwide Top Web Sites* * According to http: //www. alexa. com/topsites

URL’s (Uniform Resource Locator) n n n Also known as “Domain Name” Examples: www. oswego 308. org or www. google. com URL’s must be register to a specific owner www. register. com It costs $$$$ (about $30/yr. ) Regional Internet Registries (RIR’s) oversee registration of URL’s within a particular part of the world. There are 5 RIRs in operation: – Asia and Australia region - Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) – Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia region - RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC) – North America region - American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). In the United States it’s the responsibility of Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) – Latin America region - Latin American and Caribbean Internet Address Registry (LACNIC) – Africa region - African Network Information Centre (Afri. NIC) n Read this page on www. wikipedia. org to better understand how Internet Domain Naming System works

About URL’s (cont. ) n URL extentions are intended to have following meaning: . com. net. org. edu. gov. info. biz n Commercial Network Organization Education Government Information Business Used by businesses Used by Service providers initially, now also used by many businesses Used by non-profit organizations Used by Universities, schools and related bodies Used by Government departments and affiliates Site is designed to provide information rather than sell products or services Used by Businesses, although less common than alternatives above Often, you will see more letters after the three letter extension. For example www. sina. com. cn – It indicates what country the web site is based – A lack of a country code suggests the United States n Some country codes are: . au. uk. ca. jp. mx. cn. vn Australia United Kingdom Canada Japan Mexico China Vietnam For a complete list of country codes see http: //en. wikipedia. org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains

Web Site Design Basics n Planning Your Web Site – Who is your intended audience – Creating and organizing content (i. e. , Text, Animations, Images, Podcasts, Videos) – Organize Your Web Pages via a Site Map (i. e. , hierarchy of your web site) – Basic Page Layout – How Frequently Does the Content Change – Generating traffic and finding advertisers n North America Famous Place Web Page South America Famous Place Web Page northamer ica. html southame rica. html Europe Famous Place Web Page europe. ht ml The Pirate Traveler Home Asia Page Famous Place index. html Web Page Africa Famous Place Web Page asia. html africa. html Australia Famous Place Web Page australia. html Web Site Essentials – Page Banner (provides a consist look and feel) – Page Titles (these show up on the browser tab and help get your web site found through Google searches) – Site Navigation Bar(s) where should it be on the page? – Terms of Use page – Privacy Policy page – About Us page – Contact Us page – Interactivity (Blogs or ability for users to post comments) – Advertiser Links (This is how you make $$$) – Social Networking plugins Share: – Language translation – For large web sites • • Search within Site Map Antarctica Famous Place Web Page antarctica. h tml

Web Site Design Basics (cont. ) n What should the URL or Domain Name – Has it already been registered by someone else – Check www. whois. com n Web Site Hosting – Where will you host it and how much will it cost? – Will it perform and how much storage space will they give you? – Is their service 24 hours a day 7 days a week n HTML (Stands for Hypertext Markup Language) – It’s the language of the Internet – Includes Tags (for example <html>, <body>, <head>, </html> – The tags are interpreted by your Internet Browser n Web Page Development Tools – Create HTML – Dreamweaver and Kompzer are examples n Web Site Testing – – Preview in multiple browsers before you “Go Live” Make sure all the Multi-media content will play Make sure all Hyperlinks work Tests the Interactivity (i. e. , Blog/comment posting)

Web Site Design Basics (cont. ) n Internet Browsers interpret HTML – Internet Explorer – Foxfire – Chrome – Safari – Opera * According to http: //www. netmarketshare. com

Dreamweaver CS 4 n n Defining Your Site (Local vs. Remote info) Organizing Contents into Folders (i. e. , Animations, Images, Podcasts, Videos) n n Use Windows to copy content into your site Views (Code, Split, or Design) n Properties Panel n Creating Web Pages – Formatting Text and Colors via Page Properties helps give your web site a uniform look n Use Tables to layout content on the web page – Merging cells – Helps give your web site a uniform look

Dreamweaver CS 4 (cont. ) n n Inserting and resizing Images (Thumbnails, etc. ) Inserting and resizing Media (Videos and Podcasts) n The Properties Panel allows you to create Hyperlinks – Internal vs. External – On Text and Images (i. e. , hotspots) n Site Navigation Bars is used to create links from page to page within your web site n Previewing in Browser – Preview in multiple browsers (IE, Chrome, Safari) – Must do this before Publishing! n Publishing Web Sites to Remote Locations