UNDERSTANDING BASIC WEBSITE CONCEPTS

DEFINING A FEW TERMS:  HOMEPAGE, WEBSITE, WEBPAGE, HTML, LINKS

1.   Homepage

• Term frequently used as synonym for website

• Beginning, first, or main page of a collection of pages

• Main address, or URL (Uniform Resource Locator) for the website

• Usually a "screen" in length, no more than two

• Usually named index.htm

• Limited in "weight" to approximately 50 KB (all files, html and images) to keep load time to a minimum

  TYPICAL COMPONENTS

  • Identification of the organization or individual

  • Contact information for organization and webmaster

  • Links to the main sections of the website

  MCSD COMPONENTS

  • School name

  • Street address

  • City, state, zip

  • Phone and fax number

  • Muscogee County School District text link

  • Webmaster contact mailto link

  • Links to the main sections of the website

2.   Website

CHARACTERISTICS

• Collection of webpages (html documents), each with a unique address (URL)

• Information about an organization/individual and a special interest or focus

• Purposes: to sell, to inform, to pump ego

• Recommended links

3.   Webpage

• One html document of indeterminate length (one line or 25 printed pages)

• The display size varies with the designer's and user's screen sizes and display resolutions.

• The number of printed pages varies with user's printer setup.

4.   HTML

• HTML = Hypertext Markup Language

• Multi-platform

• Code (tags) inside brackets

Notice the pairs.

Required tags

Two versions of a page

• The version seen through the viewer's browser

• The HTML version - the "source"




• Not WYSIWYG

• Plain text (no formatting)

• No images - only references to paths of image files
  

• Source (code) view

  • In FrontPage 2003, click CODE tab at the bottom left of the screen

  • In Internet Explorer, click VIEW | SOURCE.

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