Great Web Design

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Great Web Design
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Outline

• Beginner
• Advanced
• Expert

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Beginner --- Learn html

• HTML HyperText Markup Language
• Tags Normal Text
• Graphics, Images
• Hyperlink connect your document to other
  documents
• HTML commands Sizzling HTML Jalfrezi
• http//www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/

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Beginner --- Get html editors

• Hotdog is a popular shareware program
• Microsoft FrontPage easy-to-use and powerful Web
  site creation
• New versions of the Netscape Navigator
• Dreamwave, Flash,
• Graphics package handle bitmapped graphics
  (e.g., Gimp in Unix System, ImagMap in Windows
  System)

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Beginner --- Get web browsers

• Internet Explorer
• HotJava
• Netscape

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Beginner --- tools for running your site

• Telnet
• Ftp

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Beginner --- Create simple pages

• download faster
• make an immediate impression on the reader
• give a "clean" look makes a nice visual
  presentation
• easier for you to create

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Beginner --- Reuse your graphics images

• speed up and brighten up your pages
• compromise between fast pages and lots of
  graphics

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Beginner --- Have a sense of humor

• The Web is a lot of fun. As a contributing author
  of Web documents, you have to join the party.

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Beginner --- Graphics --- 1

• Use transparent GIF images
• Use GIF animation
• Know the difference between GIF and JPEG
• Both GIF and JPEG files are compressed. GIF uses
  a lossless compression
• scheme which is optimized for images with
  regions of solid color. JPEG uses a lossy
  compression scheme which is optimized for images
  with many mixed colors.
• Get free graphics from the web
• Choose non-dithering colors

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Beginner --- Graphics --- 2

• Change your background color
• ltbody bgcolor"ffffff" text"000000"
  link"000080"gt
• Change your background pattern
• ltbody background"pattern.gif"gt
• Background color is faster than background
  pattern
• Master your graphics tools such as Gimp
• Use dark against light
• Design a logo

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Advanced --- Learn advanced HTML

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
• cool stuff like colors, fonts, background sounds,
  tables, and more.
• http//wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/impact_doc
  s/index.html
• http//www.htmlhelp.com/reference/css/

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Advanced --- Learn advanced HTML

• Use frames
• have a fixed frame with multiple sub-frames of
  dynamic content, and assign a unique URL to each
  frame.
• http//wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/frames.htm
  l

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Advanced

• View other peoples' source
• Promote your site

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Expert --- Use CGI forms and scripts

• Javascript
• Running in client side
• Perl
• Running in server side
• PHP
• Running in server side
• Java
• Java applet runs in client side, Java Servlet
  runs in server side

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Expert --- Add multimedia

• cool sound, video files
• Macromedia Shockwave