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INTRO TO WEB DEVELOPMENT

Overview

1. Structure of the Internet

2. Web site structure

3. Site planning

4. Web page editors

5. Intro to HTML

6. Intro to CSS

7. Publishing to your PSU web space

8. Further Resources

The internet is a network of server computers and client computers:

Clients: Regular computers

Servers:Where web content is stored

1. Structure of the Internet

Domain NameServer

I need to look at www.pdx.edu. Where

is its server?

Client (regular computer)

The internet is a network of server computers and client computers:

1. Structure of the Internet

PSU Web Server

Over here.

Client (regular computer)

Domain NameServer

The internet is a network of server computers and client computers:

1. Structure of the Internet

Client (regular computer)

Give me www.pdx.edu

PSU Web Server

The internet is a network of server computers and client computers:

1. Structure of the Internet

• Web page: a single document that contains text, images and other media

• Web site: a collection of web pages linked together• Web pages end in .html or .htm.• Every web page has web address, or URL.

2. Web Site Structure

2. Web Site Structure• Everything must be inside the root folder• Give files and folders lowercase names using letters,

numbers and underscores only

2. Web Site Structure

Updating a page:

1. Make the edits to the local files on your computer

2. Upload the edited files to the server, where they replace the older remote versions

Upload process for PSU servers:

index.html

/images

page2.html

/subfolder

index.html

/images

page2.html

/subfolder

website_name

odinID

public_html

FTP/Upload

2. Web Site Structure

3. Site Planning

Consider:• Purpose• Scope• Audience• Design• Complexity

in advance!

4. Web Page Editors

5. Intro to HTML

Essential parts of a web page:

1. Doctype,

2. <html> tags

3. head section

4. body section

5. Intro to HTML• HTML is a markup language, not a programming

language.• Text consists of intermingled regular text and markup. • HTML markup consists of tags:

<i>Italic sentence</i>

written in the HTML code shows up as

Italic sentence

in a browser. Individual tags are also called elements.

5. Intro to HTML

Two types of HTML tags:

Paired tags enclose other content:

Unpaired tags stand alone:

<p>This is a paragraph. The browser will display it as a block of text with a little space above and below it, just like a paragraph in Microsoft Word. </p>

<br /> inserts a forced line break<img /> inserts an image

5. Intro to HTML

Two display options for HTML tags:

Block-level tags display as separate entities:

Inline tags stay within their parent element:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus <p>magna magna,</p> sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus

magna magna,

sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus <em>magna magna,</em> sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus magna magna, sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

5. Intro to HTML

You can use as many tags as you like, but make sure to nest them properly:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus <p><em><strong>magna magna,</strong></em></p> sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus

magna magna,

sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

5. Intro to HTML

More than one space in the code is ignored:

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus <em> magna magna,</em> sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Phasellus magna magna, sagittis non eleifend non, elementum vitae nisi.

5. Intro to HTML

Tags have attributes. Some are optional, some are mandatory.

<p align=“right”> This text will be aligned right instead of the default left. </p>

This text will be aligned right instead of the default left.

<img src=”images/garter_snake.jpg” />

5. Intro to HTML

Specifying Colors on the Web

There are only 147 named colors:blue linen

indianred slategrey

??? ???

5. Intro to HTML

Specifying Colors on the Web

There are only 147 named colors:

For more options, use hex codes:

blue linen

indianred slategrey

??? ???

#0000FF #FAF0E6

#CD5C5C #708090

#5000000 #CC6633

5. Intro to HTML

Specifying Colors on the Web

Note: you may see hex codes with the pattern ‘aabbcc’ abbreviated with a hex triplet, like this:

Original:

Abbreviated:

#0000FF #FAF0E6

#CD5C5C #708090

#5000000 #CC6633

#00F #FAF0E6

#CD5C5C #708090

#500 #CC6633

5. Intro to HTML

Specifying Colors on the Web

Particularly in CSS, colors are often specified using RGB values:

Use whichever color system works best for you.

rgb(0,0,255) rgb(250,240,230)

rgb(205,92,92) rgb(112,128,144)

rgb(85,0,0) rgb(80,40,20)

5. Intro to HTML

Measurements on the Web• Pixels• Ems• Percentages

5. Intro to HTML

Exercise: building a simple web page

6. Intro to CSS• CSS = Cascading Stylesheet = a set of rules that

redefines how HTML tags display themselves by default.

In other words:

HTML tells what to display, CSS tells how to display it.

HTML defines structure, CSS defines style

• You can put the CSS rules in a few places:• Within the HTML page’s head section• As an external file that you link to in the head section• As an inline style

6. Intro to CSS• Including CSS in the head section of your HTML:

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

(CSS rules go here)

</style>

</head>

Use this when you only need the styles for one page (example)

6. Intro to CSS• Linking to a separate CSS file (an “external style sheet”):

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<link rel=“stylesheet” type=“text/css” href=“mystyles.css” /> </head>

This way, you can apply the same set of styles to many web pages. (example)

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

• Anatomy of a CSS rule:

6. Intro to CSS

The selector:the name of the HTML tag this rule will affect. Here: everything on the page unless otherwise specified.

• Anatomy of a CSS rule:

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSS

• Anatomy of a CSS rule:

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSSThe selector:the name of the HTML tag this rule will affect. Here: everything on the page unless otherwise specified.

The property:the characteristic of the HTMLtag you want to change

• Anatomy of a CSS rule:

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSSThe selector:the name of the HTML tag this rule will affect. Here: everything on the page unless otherwise specified.

The property:the characteristic of the HTML tag you want to change

The value:the new value for the property you chose

• Syntax is important!

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSS

• Syntax is important!

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSS

Enclose all the rules for one tag with curly braces

• Syntax is important!

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSS

Enclose all the rules for one tag with curly braces

Put a colon (:) after the name of the property you’re changing

• Syntax is important!

<head>

<title>Practice Page</title>

<style type="text/css">

body { background-color: slategrey;}

</style>

</head>

6. Intro to CSS

Enclose all the rules for one tag with curly braces

Put a colon (:) after the name of the property you’re changing

Put a semicolon (;)after each single rule

• You can add as many rules as you want. Conventional spacing of rules is like this:

• But this is fine too – as long as your syntax is correct, spacing doesn’t matter:

body { background-color: slategrey; color: cornsilk; font-size: 12px;}

6. Intro to CSS

body { background-color: slategrey; color: cornsilk; font-size: 12px; }

6. Intro to CSS

Exercise: adding CSS to a simple web page

Useful Links:• http://www.w3schools.com (the web’s go-to HTML and

CSS reference, with tutorials and “try it yourself” features too)

• http://web.pdx.edu/~willic/resources.html (my web page, with a long list of free tutorials and references)

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