A WEB DEVELOPMENT SHORT COURSE

OFFERED BY

INSTRUCTIONAL COMPUTING AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI – ST.LOUIS

It is A TEXT FILE full of hints for your internet browser.

○ Those hints are called “TAGS”

○ “TAGS” tell your browser how to make your web page look.

○ Where it should place an image, text, a link to another document, etc.

What is a webpage?

Where the web page is stored?

While you are working on webpage, you can save it on your computer, it does NOT have to be published on the WWW.

If you want your page to be available online, it will have to be uploaded to the remote computer called a “server”

Programs that can be used to create a web document at UMSL computer labs

Notepad NVU ADOBE Dreamweaver MX Hotdog Professional Microsoft Word 2007 Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

Common rules

1. The start page should be called “index.html”2. Following pages may have almost any name

Some restrictions apply: The filename should have a *.html or *.htm extension

Recommendation – File name should not contain spaces and special characters

Let’s create the first web page of your website To create a simple website we can use a

simple tool NOTEPAD

1. Click “Save as” in file menu2. Change the file type from *.txt to “All files”

The best place to save the file is a folder in your “K: drive” called “public_html”.

This folder is open to public. People from all over the world can read files in it but they cannot delete them.

“K drive” is nothing else but a storing space on the remote computer called “admiral.umsl.edu”.

Now let’s save your webpage

The address for your webpage is :http://www.umsl.edu/~Your(SSO)ID

This link is an internet address for your “public_html” folder. According to the rules, the first file is named “index.html”

If you have such file in your “public_html” folder it will show up in your browser window

Now let’s check your web page

Wait……This is not exactly what we wanted, is it?.

There are no line breaks!

How can we fix this?

Here it is ...

HTML stands for the HyperText Markup Language

HyperText – text containing links to other texts

Markup Language – defines hints/Tags for the browser.

Tags are only visible for the browser. The Browser interprets the Tags The result shows up in the Browser

Window.

For example in html we write something like this:

This is a <b> bold </b>

- The browser will show us the result:

This is a bold- If we want a line break at the end of line: This is a <b> bold </b><br> new line

- The browser will show : This is a bold

new line

Let’s make changes to our webpage

And we got what we wanted!

Let’s try to use software suited for building web pages

START>Programs>Web Publishing>Macromedia Dreamweaver

Menus

Properties panel

Toolbars

Dreamweaver has 3 types of views Design view Code View Code And design view (split)

You can switch back and forth between them using these 3 buttons

Step 1 : SAVE YOUR WEBPAGE

With Dreamweaver you can easily modify the page’s properties

Path: from the top menu choose Modify/Page Properties

You can modify text

You can make it bold, Italic Change color

Size Font type

Center text Create a link

Probably the most important part of a website are “links”

A big part of a web page are images

You can preview your web page in a browser at any time

More information on web page development

You can find html reference books in the following computer labs

SSB 103 TJ 316Ward E. Barnes

Of course there is a lot of help online too:http://www.w3schools.comhttp://www.w3.org

Questions?

If any further questions arise, please contact a lab consultant in any of the

following Instructional Computing Labs.

SSB 103 SSB 452

Math TLC (UC 050) Ward E. Barnes Library

Thomas Jefferson Research Commons

QUESTIONS ?

Additional Information http://www.micros.umsl.edu

The Microcomputer Program at the University of Missouri-St. Louis offers day and evening computer courses as part of the Chancellor's Certificate series.

http://mell.umsystem.eduMicrosoft E-Learning Library has tutorials on many MS

Office products available to all UMSL students and staff http://www.umsl.edu/stg

The Online Student Technology Guide has answers to many computing questions.