A Reminder and some homework

Just a reminder that there will be NO CLASS this Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Home work? !

Visit this website The Zen Garden http://www.csszengarden.com

The author is Dave Shea, a web designer from Vancouver, Canada. 

He issued a challenge… use the SAME content as found at the above link http://www.csszengarden.com 

But, make your own design

This link takes you to a gallery of the results… http://www.mezzoblue.com/zengarden/alldesigns/

Enjoy and have a "happy" halloween" and a productive week writing out the content for YOUR website!

Welcome to How to Create A Website

Web Browsers (Test Early, Test Often)

Turns out Apple Dropped support for the Window's version of Safari.  There is a version available, but it was last updated in July of 2012… 

If you have a PC, to test your web page to see what it looks like on an Apple Computer using Safari, you can use a Web Site testing service at Sauce Labs https://saucelabs.com

This link takes you to a list of Web Browser publishers Download browsers! Do Install them (Except for Window's Safari)!

1. The Web Editors

   If you already have a Web Editor, by all means, use it! The following is a link to a web page that discusses the various kinds of web editors and give you some choices. The goal here is to find a web editor that you like, and that will help you build your web site. The Web Editors

   We'll start of using the HTML editors from Coffee Cup so you can get familiar with how html editors work..  You can always download and use these editors for free for 30 days or so…

   Windows:  Coffeecup HTML Editor

   Mac:  CoffeeCup HTML Editor

   Homework:  

   Write out Content and or ideas you want to see on your web pages…

   You can start off with a pencil and paper!… Then write it out in a text editor. 

   Go a head and install one of the above html editors and try using it to write out your content…

   Save the file as a .txt file and put it in your master website folder. We'll use it in class…

    Most of all have fun! Get stuck, send an e-mail…

   Navigation Links for what was discussed in class

   • Week 1 (That's this page on my web site at the bottom of the page you'll see an RSS News feed that displays links to the last 5 articles on the class website blog)
   • Home   (Class Portal page)
   • Lesson 1 (Interesting stuff)
   • Domains and Hosts
   • Resources 
   • Contact

   Some Vocabulary 

   URL ---Uniform Resource Locator

   HTML & CSS

   --- HTML, Hyper Text Markup Language, creates the headings, paragraphs and other content for  a web page.

   --- CSS, Cascading Style Sheets, Creates the Styling for a web page.

   Provider

   --- Physically links your computer to the Internet.

   Host

   --- Provides the Computers (servers) to store and host your web site on the internet.

   Domain Name (Server) (DNS)

   --- makes a recognizable name for the actual numerical Internet address.

   Got a question? Send me an e-mail