STUDENT NAME:HANNAH SAGE DATE: 15 MARCH 2022
Unit 9 Creating a Website
When you have come up with a plan and a design for a website,
you should be ready to start building it.
Before we start making our websites, let’s think about how websites are made
and what tools we may use to help create ours.
Check out these videos to help explain how the web works and how websites are made:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=laepk9KrAZY&t=249s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8c4JZW73cM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8hXtgY0KCI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sTy8466MoE
STUDENT NAME:HANNAH SAGE DATE: 15 MARCH 2022
History
The first websites were created in the early 1990s. These sites were manually written in HTML.
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 and is still led by Tim Berners-Lee. The
group is made up of member organisations that work together to define and agree on standards for how
the World Wide Web and the technologies that make it should work. These W3C standards are followed by
most web developers so they can be sure the websites they create work as well as possible, and are usable
accessible and efficient.
Website builders are tools that typically allow users to build of websites without manually editing code.
They fall into two categories:
online branded tools provided by web hosting companies. These are typically intended for users to
build their own private websites. The more complex of these may also be described as ‘content
management systems’.
offline software that runs on a computer, creating pages and which can then upload/publish these
pages to the web. These are often considered to be ‘website design software’, rather than ‘website
builders’.
Offline website development software was created to help design web pages: Microsoft released FrontPage
in November 1995. By 1998, Dreamweaver had been established as the industry leader; however, some
have criticized the quality of the code produced by it as being over-complicated and reliant on tables to
structure content.
Software for creating websites without writing code, such as Dreamweaver and others, were criticised for
creating website code that does not meet W3C standards. This has improved over time, but many
professionals still prefer to code websites by typing it themselves using code editing software.
GeoCities was one of the first more modern online site builders that didn't require any technical skills. Five
years after its launch in 1994 Yahoo! purchased it for $3.6 billion. After becoming outdated and no-longer
producing good, compliant websites, it was shut down in April 2000.
Online website builders typically require customers to sign up with a web hosting company. Some
companies provide examples of fully functional websites made with their website builder. The range of
services varies anywhere between creating basic personal web pages or social network content to making
complete business and e-commerce websites, either template based or, on the more flexible platforms,
totally design free.
The main advantage of an online website builder is that it is quick and easy to use, and often does not
require prior experience. Often, a website can be built and be up and running live on the Internet quickly.
Technical support is usually provided, including how-to videos and help files or chat services.
HTML tools are divided into those that allow editing of the source code and those that only have
a WYSIWYG mode.
Offline web builders cater to professional web designers who need to create pages for more than one
client or web host. Modern offline web builders are usually both WYSIWYG and allow direct editing of
source code and cascading style sheets (CSS) styling. They generally require at least a basic understanding
of HTML and CSS. Although they are more flexible than online builders, most professional/branded offline
website builder software can be expensive, however, there are also many open-source/free website
builders.
STUDENT NAME:HANNAH SAGE DATE: 15 MARCH 2022
Here are four different website builders we could use – check them out and see which you like, which you
think you want to use to make a website for this unit.
canva.com
I’d rate CANVA: (how many?)
I like CANVA because:
But I don’t like:
strikingly.com
I’d rate Strikingly:
I like Strikingly because:
But I don’t like:
site123.com
I’d rate Site123:
I like Site123 because:
But I don’t like:
wix.com
I’d rate Wix:
I like Wix because:
But I don’t like:
