WD - Web Design Overview

Web Design

Introduction

You have been elected as the vice-president of the Future Business Leaders of America for your school's chapter. Part of your duties includes designing a website for the club. Where do you begin? This module will introduce you to tools that can be used to create web pages. You will design web pages using Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) 3. You will also be introduced to rules and laws regarding web accessibility and acquire information about emerging website issues.

Essential Questions

      • What are best practices for web design?
  • How can a text editor assist in the creation of web pages?
  • How does web authoring differentiate from coding when it comes to designing web pages?
  • What is the impact of mobile sites as it relates to the development of businesses?

Key Terms

  • Beta Website – a prepublication version of a website.
  • Browser - A program that accesses and displays files and other data available on the Internet and other networks.
  • Call-To-Action – a suggestion that requires the website visitor to interact with the website.
  • Dedicated Web Server – a web server that hosts a specific web designer’s file.
  • FTP Client – a software program that provides a user interface for transferring files using the FTP protocol.
  • Home Page - The first page of a website that is typically named index or default.
  • Reciprocal Link -  a link exchange with another website.
  • Scroll Bar - A widget found in graphical user interfaces and used to show and control ("scroll") which portion of a document is currently visible in a window.
  • Load Time - The amount of time necessary to completely load one web page.
  • W3C - Short for World Wide Web Consortium. It is the international governing body for the development of platform independent web standards and specifications.
  • HTML - A set of tags that are used to mark up plain text so that a browser application knows how to display the text.
  • Web Metrics – The analysis of various types of website visitor data to understand how visitors act at the stie.
  • XHTML - Abbreviation for Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language. It is the next generation of HTML and is a hybrid between HTML and XML. XML was designed to describe data. HTML was designed to display data.

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