Developing and Maintaining a Website
Here is most of the hardware and software you should have:
- You will inevitably need a computer linked to the Internet (a.k.a. a Web server).
- In this course, your pages can be displayed through the Web server at the College of Humanities.
- For future pages you can develop your own site through some companies (e.g., Yahoo)
- To construct your Web page you can use any computer, but preferably one that allows you to make easy changes to your Website.
- You do not need to know HTML (Hypertext Markup Language), but such knowledge will be helpful in creating and changing Web documents.
- There are several HTML editors available (e.g., Dreamweaver). You can also create HTML code using vanilla text in a program such as Notepad. However, an editor speeds up many routine commands (e.g., creating links).
- When you have ordinary text, Microsoft Word allows you to save the document as an HTML file (one extension being .htm).
Once you have established a Website, you can go ahead with developing it:
- If you want to have more than one Web document, you must know how to create individual documents, which you then link together. (We have covered both activities in this class.)
- If you have a large number of documents, including pictures, you should create directories on the Website, and perhaps subdirectories.
- It is possible to link between documents in different directories, but you will need to know a little HTML.
- Once you create directories, you have created a highly structured Website. Before making any major decisions, it would be helpful to take a short course on site design and management (some of these courses are offered by UTS)
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