Worksheet 1
An Introduction to the World of Web Sites!
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So What is the Internet?
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The internet is an enormous network of computers
connected together through the phone lines. These computers
may be in schools, offices or homes anywhere in the world. But
wherever they are, the important thing is that they can all
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...And What About the World Wide Web (WWW)?
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| The World Wide Web consists of all
the web pages on the internet. These pages use links, text,
images, and sometimes sounds and games to entertain and educate.
All web sites have their own web address e.g. www.webgenies.co.uk.
The .co.and .uk parts mean that this is a company web site based
in the UK. There are many other suffixes used however.
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- What do you think the suffixes .org and .com mean?
- Which countries web addresses have the suffix
.nz and .au?
- Try making up a cool web address for your own
site
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What Makes a Great Site?
Take a look at the following sites:
- Which site downloaded the quickest?
- Which entertained you the most?
- Which gave you the most information?
Different sites do different jobs and so must be designed
differently.
But there are some principles of good design that all sites
should follow, such as good spelling and grammar of course -
check out Top Tips for the low down on this.
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How Are Web Pages Made?
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Web pages are written in a computer language called
HTML (Hyper Text Markup language - in case you were wondering).
HTML contains codes called tags which web designers use to tell
the computer how to display the web page.
e.g. <B> is an HTML tag that tells the computer to make
words bold, like this - Bold
Typing in <B>web design rules.</B> would make the
computer display the words like this - web design rules.
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- You can look at the HTML coding behind any site
on the web. From the View menu select Source (Internet
Explorer) or Page Source (Navigator).
- See how the HTML tags are all placed in angled brackets
< >.
- Can you find the first tag on the page? What is
it called?
- Scroll right down to the bottom of the page. There
you'll see that tag again but this time it is the
closing HTML tag, </HTML> - Notice the forward
slash at the beginning. These tags tell the computer
it is looking at an HTML document.
- Which other tags can you find? Do they all have
a closing tag?
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What Do HTML Editors Like Dreamweaver Do?
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There are lots and lots of HTML tags to learn, but the good
news is that you don't have to know anything about HTML to make
a web page. That's because there are computer programmes like
Dreamweaver that will add the correct HTML tags for you. We'll
take a look at how Dreamweaver creates pages in the next work
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Recap of Work Sheet 1
- We saw that Web Sites can contain pictures, photographs,
links, animations, sounds and games
- We saw that different sites are created for different purposes
and so are designed differently...
- But also that there are some guidelines for good design
that all sites should follow.
- We looked at the HTML code sites are written in and discovered
why lots of web sites are created with an HTML editor such
as Dreamweaver.
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