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Web development
1. The World of Web Development
Cindy Royal, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Texas State University
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
croyal@txstate.edu
www.cindyroyal.com
www.onthatnote.com
tech.cindyroyal.net
@cindyroyal
2. Intro
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html
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css
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ftp
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how to get a domain,
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file organization
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javascript, etc.
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Flash
Then, this idea of using data on Web sites came about, and programs
like PHP and ASP allowed programming concepts that allowed the
Web to connect to databases.
Now, there are multiple ways to have a fully featured, archived and
searchable online presence, without having to know every technology.
You can visualize these in phases or categories.
3. Web Development Categories
Basic HTML design
Programming emerges
Blog Platforms
Content Management Systems
Web Frameworks
Other
4. Basic HTML Design
HTML – early 90s, language of the Web
Became XHTML to add structure, conventions
– early 2000's; now moving to HTML5
Cascading Stylesheets – CSS – 1996; current
implementation CSS3
Javascript (1995), Flash (1996), AJAX, JQuery
All client-side languages – activity occurs at the
client (user) level
5. Web Programming
Server-side
ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby,
Databases – MySQL
Powerful functionality, server-side includes,
post data to forms, populate sites with data
Gave rise to Content
Management Systems
6. Blog Platforms
Started as platform for online journaling; Web sites for
people who didn't know html.
Early platforms – Open Diary, LiveJournal late '90s
Blogger -started 1999 by Evan Williams (also Twitter) and
Meg Hourihan; purchased by Google 2003
Movable Type – 2001; Six Apart
Wordpress – 2003; can host yourself or on their site
Now Tumblr, Posterous, Pinterest
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8. Web Frameworks
Set up frameworks for Web programming
languages
Easy way to provide for common methods and
actions; connection to database
Ruby on Rails – written in Rails
Django - Python
CakePHP