Web Design

Verse of the Day

"Be still, and know that I am God; I will be

exalted among the nations, I will be exalted

in the earth."

- Psalm 46:10

Topics

• History

• Business Uses

• Important Legal Issues

• HTML

Who Built the Internet?

• Bill Gates?

• Al Gore?

• Steve Jobs?

• IBM?

• Government?

• God?

United State DOD

• Department of Defense– Created ARPANet

• Advanced Research Projects Agency Network

– Late 1960’s into the 70’s

Why the Army?

• Benefits– Troop control– Shared intelligence– Shared research

The Internet goes to College

• 1970’s – 1980’s• Loads of research and development of

ARPANet• Major Contributors

– UCLA– Duke– Stanford– UC Santa Barbara– Utah

Beginnings of Public Use

• X.25 – First to allow public access to businesses

• Who was the first company to offer e-mail and chatting?– AOL?– Netscape?– CompuServe?– Prodigy?

TCP/IP…just a bunch of letters?

• Loosely defined internet

• Loads of networks– No communication between

• Internet Protocol Suite– Allows different networks to

‘talk’ to each other

• All computers connected to the Net use this

Down to Business

• Commerce originally forbidden

• Universities did not want the ‘uneducated’ in their party

• Internet could not have survived without business

• First dial-up service?– World.std.com

• I kid you not

Why Commerce?

• Amazon.com– Proved viability of the web

• Why is the internet an option for business?

Legality of the Net

• Censorship– Free speech vs. Protection

• Copyright– Property laws– Digital Millennium Copyright

Act

Safety

• MySpace• Facebook• Blogs

– Keep private information private

– Add only those you know as friends

– No need for everyone to know what you had for lunch

Browsers

• Internet Explorer

• Apple Safari

• Mosaic

• Opera

• Netscape

Viewing the Web

• Made possible by Tim Berners-Lee– Created HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)– System of code

• Berners-Lee never made any

money off of this development– Allowed code to be ‘open-source’

World Wide Web Consortium

• Chaired by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT

• Makes upgrades and changes to HTML

• Helps set rules and protocol for internet

HTML

• Code that dictates how web pages are viewed and accessed

• All other web codes are reliant on HTML

Ways to code

• Text editors– Word– Textpad– Wordpad

• Web-based editors– Basically same as text

• WYSIWYG– What you see is what you get

Why learn code?

• Most WYSWYG editors add their own junk

• Must be able to make changes on the fly

• Easier to make any changes if you know the language

WYSWYG Editors

• Microsoft FrontPage

• Adobe Dreamweaver

• Mozilla SeaMonkey