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Basic Web Design and HTML Fundamentals
1. Basic of web Design and Basic
Fundamentals of HTML
Devendra Shukla (Senior web designer)
2. Definition of Web Design
Web Design is a skill of creating presentations of content (usually hypertext or hypermedia
that is delivered to an end-user through the World Wide Web, by way of a Web browser or
either Web-enabled software like Internet clients, microblogging and RSS feeders.
4. How We Read Text
Following normal reading habits, the users eye moves from left
to right
5. How We View Screens
Looking at a screen, the users eye scans in a more clockwise
pattern
6. How Will Your Users Read/View?
If a page uses a lot of text, the user will read in a more
traditional, left to right manner.
If a page has more graphical elements, the user is more likely
to take in the whole page.
8. 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?
9. Research WebSites
This is a very important part in the creation of a web site, and
usually very useful.
Spend time looking at other internet sites, particularlly your
competitores
You can get any ideas you can use and improve on
Sites with lots of animation are not always the best.
You must also keep in mind that not everyone has a fast
Internet connection.
10. Principles of good web design
Visitor-centric, clear purpose
Progressive disclosure
Displays quickly
Browser compatible
Intuitive navigation
Spelling, grammar, writing
Attractive design, easy to read
Cultural bias? (Regional? Domestic? International?)
No technical problems (broken links, buggy scripts)
Search Engine Accessible
11. Creating a Web Site
Once you have decided to establish a web site there are three
steps to getting it online.
1 - Get a domain name - This is your personal/private address
on the Web.
2 - Find a web hosting service- Here is where your website will
reside.
Free vs Private Web Hosting
3 - Design, build and upload your website - The process of
website creation.
12. Creating your Web Site
Technologies & Tools
Markup Languages
HTML, DHTML, XML, XSLT, etc....
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Scripting languages
perl,javascript,php, etc....
Web creation and editing software
Notepad, FrontPage, Coldfusion, Flash, Hotmetal, Site
Builder, etc..
13. HTML Fundamentals
What is HTML?
Telling the browser what to do, and what purpose to use.
A series of tags that are integrated into a text document.
Tags are ;
surrounded with angle brackets like this
<B> or <I>.
Most tags come in pairs
exceptions: <P>, <br>, <li> tags …
The first tag turns the action on, and the second turns it off.
Clear text
Ignores white space
Comprised of tags <tag />
Open tags and closed tags
14. HTML Fundamentals
Open tags
<name attributes/>
<hr/>, <br/>
<img src=“url” width=‘100px’ height=’60px’/>
Closed tags
<name attributes> stuff </name>
<b>text to be bolded</b>
<h1>level 1 heading text</h1>
Comments
< ! - - comment text -- >
15. The second tag(off switch) starts with a forward slash.
For example ,<B> text </B>
can embedded, for instance, to do this:
<HEAD><TITLE> Your text </HEAD></TITLE> it won't work.
The correct order is <HEAD><TITLE> Your text
</TITLE></HEAD>
not case sensitivity.
Many tags have attributes.
For example, <P ALIGN=CENTER> centers the paragraph
following it.
Some browsers don't support the some tags and some
attributes.
16. Tags in head
<TITLE>...</TITLE>-- puts text on the browser's title bar.
<META>…</META>-- data (information) about data.
<HEAD>...</HEAD>-- contains information about the
document
17. Tags in Body
Let's talk Text
Heading: <H1> </H1>
Center:<Center> </Center>
Line Break <P> ,<Br>
Phrase Markups: <I></I> ,<B></B>
Create a List
Unordered list : <UL><li>
Ordered list: <OL><li>
Nested
18. Add some Link
Use <A href=filename|URL></a>tags
How to specify Relative pathnames
Kinds of URLs
https://www.facebook.com
https://gopher.myhost.com/
- news://news.nuri.net
- mailto:skrhee@women.or.kr
19. How to make colors changes?
Hexadecimal number :
Color names : <Font color=white>
Changing the Background color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a>
Changing Text color
<BODY BGCOLOR=#19378a TEXT=#ffffff LINK=#ffff66
VLINK=#66ffff>
Spot color
<FONT COLOR=#66ffcc>WENT'99</FONT>
Image Background
<BODY BACKGROUND=bgimg.gif >
20. HTML – Fundamentals
Headings
Renders text as a heading, the rendering depending on the
level of heading selected. Headings should be automatically
spaced from the body text.
<h1>Heading 1 level text</h1>
<h2>Heading 2 level text</h2>
<h3>Heading 3 level text</h3>
<h4>Heading 4 level text</h4>
<h5>Heading 5 level text</h5>
<h6>Heading 6 level text</h6>
21. HTML – Fundamentals
Document Structure
Unordered list
Ordered list
<ul>
<li>apples</li>
<li>bananas</li>
<li>grapes</li>
<li>strawberries</li>
</ul>
<ol type=‘i’ start=‘2’>
<li>apples</li>
<li>bananas</li>
<li>grapes</li>
<li>strawberries</li>
</ol>
27. HTML – Fundamentals
Div
<div attributes> content </div>
attributes
ID=“name”
STYLE = “style parameters re: CSS”
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Div
< DIV ID=“fred”
STYLE = “POSITION:absolute|relative;
VISIBILITY:visible:hidden;
Z-INDEX:number;
WIDTH:width in pixels;
HEIGHT:height in pixels;
TOP:pixels from top of page or block;
LEFT:pixels from left edge of page or block;
PADDING:margin in pixels;
other style attributes; “ >
content
</DIV>