a presentation tool; a way to communicate; a learning tool; a teaching tool; a marketing important tool;
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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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Step 2:Follow The Rules To creat a we site you must follow theses rules:
Rule 1: YOU are NOT the USER.
• What you understand is not what a user will understand; ask the users to design the site the way they want.
Rule 2: USERS are NOT PROFESIONALS
• Users will not think carefully about the new added features in the Web site without your directions.
Rule 3: Give the common user a little control
• Allow the user some choices and the ability to control color and themes on their accounts.
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Step 2:Follow The Rules
Rule 4: Make sure the visual contents of a site relates to
its function. A nice-looking design must enforce the website functionality
Rule 5: Respect GUI and Web interface conventions.
Designers need to respect conventions of navigation choices, navigation placement, colors, and so on.
Rule 6: Know and respect the Web and Internet medium
constraints. • Don’t ignore the differences in the emerging Web medium, color reproduction, bandwidth limitations, and so on.
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Step 3 Go on a Roundup. Locate images, files, animations, etc. that you might use and place them in your www directory. It is important that all files be in the same folder.
If you are going to work at home or some place
other than the university computer lab, create a www directory on the hard drive, USB drive or whatever.
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Step 4 Open Website designing tools like Dreamweaver , FrontPage , SeaMonkey,…and start designing your web pages.
Save your work often!!!!!!!!
Typically we name the home page in a web site “index.html”
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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 tables 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.
You will get very frustrated if
you try to design a web page without tables. Your graphics will not appear where you want them.
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Note: 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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Types of Web Pages Any web site composed from a set of web pages: Some of those pages are static (abstract) pages while other pages are dynamics (proactive) pages.
A dynamic page that will A static page with no
take user name and interaction that user will password and check it to only read and close if. allow login. introduction why examples Web Development Languages & Tools 1. HTML/DHTML/XHTML 2. Java 3. Web Design Tools e.g. Frontpage, Dreamweaver. 3. Scripting Languages e.g. VBScript, Javascript 4. Cascading Style Sheets 5. XML 6. …more!!!
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Let’s go to build a website A good advice “Don’t reinvent the wheel “
•Use pre-designed templates.
• Download lovely icons, backgrounds and images from the internet. • Use pre-programmed scripts.