Basic Web Development

BASIC WEB CONCEPTS

Web Design Terminology Network is defined as several computers connected together with purpose of sharing resources including data, information and hardware

Internet is a worldwide collection of computers interconnected to one another either wired or wireless including all computers that we use at home, in schools, offices and many other places World Wide Web is a collection of resources and information interconnected via the internet Web page is a formatted page within a web site that may contain text, graphics, video and multimedia. This page can be viewed and explored on the internet by the use of a program called Web Browser Home page is usually the first web page of a web site which usually provides information about the web site, its purpose and contents
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Basic Web Design Principles Balance this concept has to do with symmetrical and asymmetrical arrangements of the text and objects of the web page. Proximity is the placement of elements with logical relationship close to each other. Proper arrangement of related elements would facilitate user interaction and understanding of the web site White spaces are literacy blank spaces which are placed around web page elements which allow readability of important texts and draw attention to images on the web site Contrast is a way to differentiate the elements of a web page. It can be achieved by varying the sizes, character and colors of the elements, to arrange them according to which needs to be emphasized and which ones supports Focus is that element in the web site that you want the attention of the viewer drawn to first. Unity is the sense of agreement and harmony of all the elements of the web site. It is achieved by using the same company logo, font color, font style composition and other elements that it decide to use with consistency and repetition
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Essential Elements of Web Contents

Accuracy ensuring the reliability of the information you publish on the web site
Readability is designing and composing the content of the web pages making them easily accessible and readable Concise is using the least words to convey a message to the internet

Hypertext Markup Language 4 (HTML4)

Hypertext Markup Language is language used for creating web pages Tags are the basic units or building blocks of an HTML file. It is enclosed in angle brackets

Two types of tags: Container tag have the start and end tag a. <p> b. <i> empty tag does not have the start and end tag a. <br> b. <hr>
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Headings - Are container tags which format text using predefined values for size and color - There are 6 heading tags and they are <h1></h1>, <h2></h2>, <h3></h3>, <h4></h4>, <h5></h5> and <h6></h6> each having its own effects on texts

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Paragraph Is a container tag and it is the <p></p>

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Line Breaks - Use <br> tag which creates line break or new line Horizontal Rules - Allow you to underline headlines or complete lines of text - Use <hr>

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LISTS

Ordered Lists
- First type of list and also known as numbered list - Numbered usually starting at 1 (but can be changed using the start attribute) - Use the container tag <ol></ol> and each item is specified by the empty tag <li>

Different types of numbering:

1. 1 for regular numbering (1, 2, 3, 4, etc) 2. a for lowercase alphabet (a, b, c, d, etc) 3. A for uppercase alphabet (A, B, C, D, etc) 4. i for lowercase Roman numeral (i, ii, iii, iv, etc) 5. I for uppercase Roman numeral (I, II, III, IV, etc)

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Cascading Style Sheets

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JavaScript

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Hypertext Markup Language 5 (HTML5)

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