Website Development for Beginers

Web page creation by any method requires a working knowledge of at least two markup languages:
• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML): traditionally the standard markup language on the Web, and in other settings. HTML is standardized by an organization called the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
• Extensible Hypertext Markup Language HTML5: effectively the next version of HTML. The Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C) also oversees the development of HTML5
When you create a Web page, you must ensure that it will be accessible to all visitors of your site. An accessible Web page has two characteristics:
1. A user-friendly and accessible front end.
2. Server resources that process and store user input, also known as the backend.
Vocabulary
Branding: The process of establishing name recognition for a company or product.
Front-End issues: Factors that affect the accessibility and presentation of a Web page to an audience.
GUI: Graphical User Interface – A program that provides visual navigation with menus and screen icons, and performs automated functions when users click command buttons.
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language – The traditional authoring language used to develop Web pages for many applications.
Markup language: A series of commands used to format, organize, and describe information on a page.
Tags: Embedded information that defines the fonts, colors, and phrase elements used on an HTML page.
Web Accessibility: The assurance that an accessible web page has a user-friendly and accessible front end as well as the ability to access content easily by users who have disabilities and other challenges.
XHTML: The current standard authoring language used to develop Web pages and other electronically displayed documents. XHTML requires stricter code syntax than HTML.
XML: Newer language used to define context as opposed to appearance.
Textbook Reading for this Unit:
Textbook Reading Summary:
Lessons 1–2 Introduce Website development concepts.
Lessons 1–2 will provide the background of the Internet as well as explanations of Web page design in terms of different graphical user interface (GUI) and text editors, Web page elements, design issues, and accessibility. With Web accessibility comes the push for web standards, in hopes of streamlining how pages appear consistently online and in different browsers. Tim Berners-Lee, who invented the Web, is one of the main figures proposing Web standards. These standards are formulated and published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). One of the initiatives of the W3C is to separate content from the formatting of Web pages. This creates two separate documents, the HTML which builds the content of the pages, and a new system for formatting pages, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). While your primary focus in this course will be upon HTML5 it will provide a good introduction to CSS. Lesson 1 will provide an overview of these various programming languages and initiatives.

I’ve learned
1. Why do Web Designers need to know about the disability acts which relate to Website accessibility?

2. Why has HTML5 been considered a necessary improvement in Web Design? List at least two reasons and discuss why you consider these reasons to be valid.
3. According to the W3C site, what are the most current developments that have occurred in regards to HTML5? List at least two developments and state why you consider them to be important.
4. difference between the World Wide Web and the Internet
5. FTP File Transfer Protocol
6. World Wide Web Consortium