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LESSON 1: OVERVIEW OF Web Design Terminology
WEBPAGE DESIGN Web page - a formatted page within a
website that contains text, graphics, video and multimedia. A web page is a simple document Home Page - first webpage of a website displayable by a browser that is which provides information about the accessible through the internet. website. -access by entering a URL address Splash Page - multimedia, designed to (uniform resource Locator) be attractive and intriguing. -may contain text, graphics and, Web Browsers - Test your website on hyperlinks browsers to ensure it works for most users. Website -collection of web pages Accessing the Web Web Browser • Dial-Up connection -a software application to find websites • DSL in the internet • Cable Internet When was the FIRST WEB PAGE • Wireless Internet CREATED? • Dedicated line -created of CERN by Tim Berners-Lee on August 6, 1991 Kinds of Web Browsers Web designer / web developer -Internet Explorer -responsible for design, layout and -Mozilla Firefox coding of a website. -Safari -Google Chrome PURPOSE OF WEB PAGE DESIGN -Opera (CUHPC) -Netscape -Showcase Creativity -Flock - Usable and Helpful -Persuade users Basic Web Design Principles - Generate a business Career -Balance -Proximity Basic Web Concepts -White spaces Internet - worldwide collection of -Contrast computers interconnected to one -Focus another. -Unity Network - several computers connected -Alignment together for sharing resources World Wide Web -collection of resources and information via the internet. Essential Elements of Web Contents - Accuracy Body Attributes -Readability -description of each html tag -Understandable There are many attributes in the <body> - Concise tag, listed below: -Ethical and legal FOCUS ON BG History of the Internet Background: used to set the background Leonard Kleinrock image. contain the url of the DARPA logo today background. bg color: to specify the color of an image LESSON 2: GETTING STARTED WITH FOCUS ON HYPERLINKS HTML alink: color of the active link What is Hypertext Markup Language text: color of the text in a document. (HTML)? link: specifies the color of visited links - the language to create a web page / HTML documents. - Foundation of website LESSON 3: FORMATTING TEXT The header tag:<hn> - uses predefined Hypertext - document presented on a header text. sizes usually vary from 1-6 . computer. The syntax for header is: Markup Language - for processing <hn> your Heading Text here</hn> definition and presentation of text HTML - set of tags used to create a Guide to header text and sizes webpage. Hn size (in Application order) s HTML tags - keywords (tag names) enclosed by angle brackets <> h1 biggest main title - comes in pairs with a Start tag and and size and section headings End tag h2 second chapters & Basic structure of HTML Document biggest important subheadin g
h3 third sub-sub headings
h4 middle size most
paragraph text (default text size) Enhancing Text: Logical Formatting Logical formatting h5 second less -The appearance of the text is controlled smallest important by the browser being used. Emphasising text for logical formatting h6 smallest avoid using - <em> tags are displayed in italics - <strong> tags are displayed boldface. The address tаg: <address> - indicates the name and the e-mail address of the Carcading tags - you can use two tags designer of the page. to affect the same text area The address is displayed in 12 pt. Putting Quotes - enclose content with Times, Italic, flushed to the left <blockquotes> tag pair Pre formatting text LESSON 4: ENHANCING TEXT - displays text how you exactly typed Two Types of Text Formatting them in your code. Use <pre> tag. • Logical Formatting Text alignment • Physical Formatting -Heading and paragraph tags can be set by using each tags align attribute. Enhancing Text: Physical Formatting Attribute means the modifier to the Physical Formatting- you can have more element. control over how the text will appear. Syntax to align header is <hn align= alignment> HTML Formatting Elements Syntax to align paragraph is. <p align= TAG Description alignment>
<b> bold text
Enhancing Text: Handling Font <em> emphasized text -you can change the properties of the font you want to use by using <font>. <i> italic / alternate The <font> tag has attributes: FACE, voice or mood SIZE and color. <small> small text To change the font style: <strong> important text font face - <font face=fontname> <sub> subscripted text </font> font size - <font size=n></font> <sup> superscript text font color - <font color=ncolor></font>
<del> deleted text
The Face Attribute <mark> highlighted text <font face=fontname> </font> Fontname is the font style that you want - when you move the mouse over a link, to use the mous arrow will turn into a little hand. HTML STYLES -add styles to an element, such as color. HTML LINKS: Target Attributes Font size, etc. Target attribute specifles where to open STYLE ATTRIBUTES the linked document <tagname style = "property: value;"> _Self. Opens the document in the same window/tab as it was clicked LESSON 5: HTML IMAGE _blank. Opens the document in a new tab window. HTML IMAGES SYNTAX _parent-Opens the documents in the - <img> is to embed an image in a web parent frame page. It has 2 required attributes: _top - opens the document in the full src - Specifies the path to the image body of the window Alt - Specifies an alternate text for the image Syntax - The <img> tag is empty and no <a rel="value"> closing tag. Only attributes. Attribute Values: LESSON 6: HTML TABLES noreferrer - Makes the referrer -allow web developers to arrange data unknown. into rows and columns. Table Cells The rel attribute specifies the - each table cell is defined by a <td > tag relationship between the current - td stands for table data document and the linked document. Table rows Only used if the href attribute is present. - each table row is defined by <tr> tag. - tr stands for table row HTML <a> rel Attribute <a rel="nofollow" LESSON 7: HTML HYPERLINKS href="https://www.w3schools.com/">W3 Links allow users to click their way from Schools.co m</a> page to page. The HTML tag <a> defines a hyperlink it Link to an Email Address has the following syntax: Use mailto: inside the href attribute to <a href = "url" link text </a> create a link that opens the user's email HTML LINK HYPERLINKS program. the html links are hyperlinks you can <ahref="mailto:[email protected] click on a link and jump to another ">Send email</a> document ADDITIONAL: LINKS To change the default numbering of a Using Lists - In order for readers to list in HTML, you can use the start easily get an idea of what information attribute in the <ol> tag to indicate what they can see on your page. number or letter the bullet will start. The Ordered Lists - If the information you syntax for this: want to present on a list shows a <ol start=3> defined sequence such as an <li> This item starts with 3. instruction. This is sometimes called <li> List item 2 numbered lists. <li> List item 3 <li> List item 4 The syntax for creating an ordered </ol> list is: <ol type=bullet_type> Aside from start attribute, the number or <li> List item 1 letter of a particular list item can be <li> List item 2 changed and the succeeding lists will be </ol> affected. The syntax to do this is: <li value=n> Where as bullet_type is either: 1 - numeric where n is the list's new line number. a - lowercase letters A - uppercase letters i - lowercase Roman I - uppercase Roman
Unordered Lists - These are presented
with bullets before each list item. Sometimes called bulleted lists.
The syntax for creating an unordered
list is: <ul type=bullet_type> <li> List item 1 <li> List item 2 </ul>