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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