2. What is a Web site?
A web site is:
a presentation tool;
a way to communicate;
a learning tool;
a teaching tool;
a marketing tool;
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4. Step 1
Think!
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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5. Step 2:Follow The Rules
To create 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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6. 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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7. 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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8. 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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9. 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
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10. Reasons for increase in career
High Salary
Modern demands
Interest of the new
generation
Growing needs of
the people and
need of modernization
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12. Money for Work
In this career high
salary is provided
Employees, in some
firms, work for more
than 9 hours a day
This is the reason for
the downfall of
software engineers in
the year 2000
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13. Not an Easy Task
Don’t get proper sleep
because of long duration
jobs
Hurts eyes due to long
duration of exposure
Only sitting job which
harms the body
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