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Contents
Website Construction Tutorial Plan
Introduction
- WYSIWYG editors (such as Dreamweaver) vs. using a text editor
- Broad context of HTML/XHTML/CSS/XML
Software
- Note about available resources at Columbia
- Server space (IAM)
- Recommendations
- Text editors (HTMLkit, SCITE)
- Image editors (GIMP, Photoshop, ImageReady)
- FTP applications (WinSCP, FileZilla)
- Server spaces
- Domain name services
- Redirecting to your site
Quick Overview
TODO image series showing what the website construction process looks like on screen
About the Web
(vocab)
- Brief history of the Internet
- Internet vs. WWW
- Evolution of markup - where it came from, where it is going.
- Vocabulary (interlaced with above)
- Internet
- WWW
- FTP
- Browsers
- Servers
- IP address
- URL
XHTML + CSS
- Justification: content extracted from presentation
- Justification II: HTML vs XHTML
- Basic XHTML/CSS doc formats
- Single page construction
- Basic text editing SCiTE Text Wrangler
- Links
- Lists
- Images
- Tables (with caveat)
- 5. Multiple page construction
- Linking between pages
- Organizing site structure (and files)
- Basic navigation system
Posting to a server, testing
Links
Text Editors
- PC/Linux SCiTE
- OSX Text Wrangler
FTP Programs
- PC Filezilla winSCP
- OSX cyberduck
Homework
- Create Class Portfolio Website AIM Homework Create Class Website AIM Project 1:Create Class Website
- [AIM Assignment 1] - Web site analysis project