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Web Dev 101 for Journalists & Entrepreneurs

Lisa Williams

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But first a few words about having a startup

Having a startup is like having one long existential crisis

Losers.

Never start a company when you can start a

Web Dev Basics for people

who make & run sites

FTP – DNS – The Web Stack – Unix File

Commands – Web Servers – MySQL

PHP/Perl/Python Extending your CMS – CSS

UI PatternsBackup and Recovery

OMGI think I came to the wrong class

One Year of Learning on the Web

January

FTP

February

DNS

DNS matches IP addresses to domain names

March

The Stack

April

UnixFileCommands

May

WebServer

WAMP/MAMP

A web server on your laptop is a great sandbox

June

MySQL

July

Modules/Plugins

August

CSS

September

Basic programmingin the language your site uses

October

Writea SitePlan

Elements of a Site Plan

• Overview• User Stories• Wireframes• Feature List• User roles• Site map

November

Backup& Recovery

December

UI Patterns

http://uipatternfactory.com/ http://ui-patterns.com/

http://welie.com/uipatternshttp://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/

Redesign USAToday.com

Elements “above the fold”

• Banner ad• Logo• Search• Login/Registration• Carousel• Vote to Promote• User Icon• Comments

Thanks!

Lisa Williamslisa@placeblogger.com

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