Web Design Study

2. What is a Web site?
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a presentation tool;
a way to communicate;
a learning tool;
a teaching tool;
a marketing important
tool;
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3. Step 1
Think!
Before you do anything else, you need to
spend time thinking about the 4w’s.
What is the purpose of the web page/site?
Who is your target audience?
What will bring your audience back?
Where will your audience be using the site?
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4. Step 2:Follow The Rules
To creat a we site you must follow theses rules:
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• What you understand is not what a user will understand; ask
the users to design the site the way they want.
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• Users will not think carefully about the new added features in
the Web site without your directions.
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• Allow the user some choices and the ability to control color
and themes on their accounts.
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5. Step 2:Follow The Rules
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 A nice-looking design must enforce the website functionality
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 Designers need to respect conventions of navigation choices,
navigation placement, colors, and so on.
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• Don’t ignore the differences in the emerging Web medium,
color reproduction, bandwidth limitations, and so on.
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6. Step 3
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7. Step 4
Open Website designing tools like
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web pages.
Save your work often!!!!!!!!
Typically we name the home page in a web site
“iinnddeexx..hhttmmll”
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8. Some Things to Remember
You do not have the layout control in a web editor that
you do in Word or PowerPoint.
Therefore, the web designers used ttaabblleess to control the
layout out of their pages. If you set the borders of the
table to 0 width, you can't see the outline of the tables in
the web browser.
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9. NNoottee::
Naming Web Files:
Use all lower case (it will be easier to communicate the
URL to others if it is all lower case).
DO NOT have spaces in file names (some old browsers
cannot handle spaces. You should rename graphic files if
they have spaces)
Try to keep file names as short as possible (this prevents
errors in typing in URLs)
 URL(Universal Resource Locator)= Site Address
ex: URL of hotmail is : www.hotmail.com
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10. Types of Web Pages
Any web site composed from a set of web pages:
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A dynamic page that will
take user name and
password and check it to
allow login.
A static page with no
interaction that user will
only read and close if.
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11. Web Development Languages & Tools
1. HHTTMMLL/DHTML/XHTML
2. Java
3. Web Design Tools e.g. FFrroonnttppaaggee, Dreamweaver.
3. Scripting Languages e.g. VBScript, Javascript
4. Cascading Style Sheets
5. XML
6. …more!!!
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12. Let’s go to build a website
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•Use pre-designed templates.
• Download lovely icons, backgrounds and images from the internet.
• Use pre-programmed scripts.
Let’s go to use Microsoft FrontPage.
And learn how to build powerful website
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