Beginning Web Site Design Stanford University Continuing Studies CS 21

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Beginning Web Site Design Stanford University
Continuing Studies CS 21
Mark Branom markb_at_stanford.edu http//www.stanford
.edu/people/markb/ Course Web Site
http//www.geocities.com/stanfordcs21/
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Week 9 Agenda

• Unfinished business
• Web site hosting
• Setting up a domain name
• Using a WYSIWYG editor...

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Web Site Hosting

• Options
• Internet Service Providers
• Often will give you a certain amount of disk
  space to play with on the web (often 5-10MB)
• Address would be http//www.isp.com/userid/
• Free Web Pages
• We've been using geocities.com
• Others also exist xoom.com, tripod.lycos.com

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Setting up a domain

• Right now, your geocities.com address looks
  something likehttp//www.geocities.com/markbrano
  m/
• If you'd rather have it look something like
  http//www.mycompany.com, you will need to
  register your own domain name with Network
  Solutions.
• http//www.networksolutions.com
• Approx. 70 for 2 years (just domain name
  registration) or 95 for 2 years (registration
  plus pointing your domain name to an existing
  website). Check with Network Solutions for
  up-to-date pricing.

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WYSIWYG Editors

• WYSIWYG stands for "What You See Is What You
  Get". Be very careful about using WYSIWYG
  editors to create webpages often what the
  program creates is not exactly what you want
• That said, I use them on a daily basis. Here are
  two of the bestDreamweaver (http//www.dreamwea
  ver.com)and Adobe GoLive (http//www.adobe.com/p
  roducts/golive/)
• (DEMO -- Dreamweaver and GoLive)

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Learning More...

• Many local colleges and universities offer a
  variety of classes on Web topics. Here are some
  suggestions

Stanford University's Continuing
Studies http//continuingstudies.stanford.edu/ Ca
nada College http//canadacollege.net/ College
of San Mateo http//gocsm.net/ Foothill College
http//www.foothill.fdha.edu/ Institute of
Computer Technology http//www.ict.org
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Learning More (cont.)

• Books and Websites -- check the resources page
  although they can be great resources, books are
  often "outdated" before they're even published.
• Practice! Most web designers learned how to "do"
  HTML by looking at the source codes of others and
  playing around with tags

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Webmonkey's review of WYSIWYG editors...

• http//hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/99/19/index1a.
  htmlmirrored at
• http//www.geocities.com/stanfordcs21/webmonkeyrev
  iew.html