Basic Web Development

(online WYSIWYG)

Web Development: The Need to Know Basics

By:  Chris Rossi

Summary: The purpose of this article is to quickly get Visual Basic 6.0 and Visual Basic .NET developers up-to-speed on building Web applications with ASP.NET 2.0. As such, this article endeavors to speak the language of desktop developers, and it focuses on what's different about developing for the Web. (13 printed pages)

Many articles, books and websites explain the basics of Web development, but they require a lot of time to read (and re-read) to understand fully. This article is not going be like that--it was written to provide quick answers to the basic development questions that many beginning developers need to know

When it comes to coding editors, it’s damn hard to a get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionalities different editors have to offer. However, in the end everybody needs one, so it’s important to know which editor is best tailored to your personal needs.

What does WYSIWYG mean? 

The somehow cryptic abbreviation WYSIWYG stands for “What You See Is What You Get”. In such editors you edit not directly the source code of your documents, but its presentation as it (hopefully) will appear in the final document. So instead of writing blocks of code manually (as you e.g. would do it in Word or Latex), you manipulate with design components using an editor window. This means that you view something very similar to the end result while the document or image is being created.

Notice: this post reviews only desktop-based WYSIWYG-editors which run on Windows, Linux or Mac. It doesn’t provide an overview of JavaScript-based WYSIWIG-editors — you can find an extensive overview of JavaScript-based WYISWYG Web Editors in the post

WYSIWYG  is an acronym for "what you see is what you get". In computing, a WYSIWYG editor is a system in which content (text and graphics) can be edited in a form closely resembling its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product,^[2] such as a printed document, web page, or slide presentation

What is HTML?

Before we get into anything else let’s first go over what HTML is. HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. This is the basic format for the scripting language that is used to construct the Web. The latest version of HTML (HTML 4.01) was developed by WHATWG (Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group). They are now working on a revised version called HTML5 which focuses on the needs of application developers along with resolving issues found in the previous versions of HTML. Here is an example of what the current HTML code would look like if you were adding an image.

<img src="image_name.jpg" width="251" height="143" />

If you want some further information on HTML and HTML5, check out these pages

What are Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)?

CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a style sheet language used to describe the design elements of the websites such as the layout, color, font size, etc. It can allow multiple pages to share the same formatting. This is what it would look if you wanted to define the height, width and background color of a specific div tag.

INTERGRETING TEXT , IMAGES AND, MEDIA ONLINE

According to: Matthew Peterson, Ph.D.

INTRODUCTION This study approaches graphic layout from the designer’s implicit strategy for integrating text and image in media, and how that ultimately models or facilitates a reader’s experience. The integration of text and image has significant cognitive implications for readers. Here I will focus on the secondary science textbook and its audience. The science textbook is in a peculiar situation: its is a largely unwilling readership. It is also dependent upon imagery for much of its explanatory power. The science textbook is an ideal demonstration of text–image integration not only because of its inherent demand for such integration, but because it has specific cognitive goals—learning outcomes—that we can assess. Learning is an eminently testable situation. I will outline three distinct strategies for the integration of text and image and report on a doctoral study involving 158 seventh grade students at a middle school in North Carolina. The study looks at the impact of text–image integration on comprehension of abstract concepts, sense of task difficulty, and interest level in both subject matter and graphic layout.

blogging Vlogging and podcast

For the purposes of this course, a blogger is someone who creates content on a regularly recurring basis that is typically presented in a reverse-chronological order. Content provided by bloggers may provide education, information, or entertainment. It may be carefully-edited, professional, and formal, or raw and personal.

The three most popular delivery mechanisms used by bloggers are:

§  Blog posts

§  Videos

§  Podcasts

§  Many bloggers use a combination of the above formats to deliver their message, starting or specializing in one format, then expanding to additional formats to reach a wider audience.

§  Very few bloggers create content as a full time job. Most bloggers, vloggers (that is, bloggers who primarily publish in video format), and podcast creators (that is, those who regularly publish audio recordings available for download) create content as a part of an existing job or during their free time on nights and weekends. Though part-time and recreational bloggers may make some money passively via ad revenue,

The most common means by which serious bloggers monetize their work include:

§  Taking an entrepreneurial approach

§  Creating formalized publication

§  Asking for donations from audience members

Bloggers, vloggers, and podcasters who behave like entrepreneurs typically leverage their audiences to sell sponsorships, products, services, and subscriptions. Those who create full-blown digital media publications hire additional editors and contributors and earn income through ads, conferences, and affiliate sales. Bloggers who run their blogs like nonprofits garner funds from audience donations, grants, and support from external 

organizations.