Unit 3
Unit 3
UNIT 3
WEB DESIGN
My hobbies
I like music and computers. I can play the Spanish guitar and I love Latin
dancing. I have a mountain bike but my favourite sport is football.
My studies
I study at Politecnica University, Madrid. My favourite subjects are
Maths, Physics, Aeronautics and English. I have studied English for five
years. In the future I would like to be an engineer.
My favoutite city
Zaragoza is a multicultural modern ancient city, with 700,000 inhabitants
and over 2,000 years of history. Muslins, Christians and Jews have lived
together in peace for many centuries. It is famous for its ‘mudejar’ style,
and the charming character of its people.
Frames - rectangular areas that allow the display of different pages in the same
browser window
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - a mechanism for adding styles to web documents.
You could use HTML code to specify the font, text styles and background colour.
Nowadays, however, it is more common to use CSS. This makes it easy to apply
presentation changes across a website.
Graphics, clip art, icons, background templates, wallpaper, and transparent
images - common formats are .ipg (Joint Photographic expert Group), ideal for
pictures with many colours, .gif (Graphics Interchange Format), ideal for pictures
with fewer colours, and .png (Portable Network Graphics), which support 16 million
colours.
Hyperlinks - highlighted text or pictures (buttons, image maps, etc.) that act as links
to other pages. If you want to share information with people, you can use RSS feeds
and provide readers with a link to the feed. RSS allows subscribers to receive
updates of bloqs, news, podcasts, etc. Before going live, you should check that all
the links work.
Audio, video and animation
Many website now incorporate audio files, and if you’re designing a site, you may
like to insert songs, podcasts etc. The most common audio formats are .wav
(Windows wave audio format), .ra (RealAudio file) and .mp3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-
3).
Full-motion video is stored these formats: .avi (audio video interleave), .mov
(QuickTime movie) and .mpg (moving picture experts group).
If you want to inject something special into your web pages. You can use Adobe
Flash to include interactive animations and streaming audio. Additionally, you
can insert Java applets - small programs that enable the creation of interactive
files. Animations are made up of a series of independent picture put together in
sequence to look like moving pictures. To see or hear all these files you must
have the right plug-in, an auxiliary program that expands the capabilities of your
web browser.
Task 3 Read the text again and then match the sentence beginnings (1-6)
with the correct endings (a-f).
1. Instructions in HTML
2. Cascading Style Sheets are the way
3. A hyperlink is any clickable text,
4. A plug-in is a small program
5. Java applets are used to provide
6. RSS feeds are summaries of web content
Task 5 Study these seven points for evaluating websites. What questions
would you ask to evaluate a website on each point?
Task 6 Study this flowchart for planning a website. Use it as the basis for
a short text providing advice on website planning. Your text
should have three paragraphs corresponding to the 3 stages in
this diagram.
Analysis
Who’s What’s
the target audience? the site’s purpose?
Begin your text like this: You need to plan your website carefully before you
go ahead and create it. There are three stages to the planning process:
1. Analysis
2. Design and implementation
3. Evaluation