Creating a Website
History and Facts about the Internet October 29, 1969 – first ARPANET (Internet predecessor) connection made 1971 – first email is sent May 1982 – South Korea becomes second country to create their version of the internet January 1, 1983 – ARPANET becomes the Internet and goes global 1992 – first picture on the internet 1994 – first search engine (browser) 2005 – first YouTube video
History and Facts about the Internet www = World Wide Web URL = Uniform Resource Locator (www.google.com) In 2010, there was 5,000,000 TB of information on the Internet That is 5,000,000,000,000,000,000 bytes of information On October 14, 2018, there were 4,460,000,000 pages on the Internet 1,900,000,000 webpages World’s first website: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html The surface web is only 1% of the Internet, the other 99% is the deep web The deep web is web content that you cannot find on Google or other search engines
Important Vocabulary Design Scroll Bar Page Window Site Address Bar Links (broken) Upload Font Download Menu Load Theme Domain Name URL Byte Browser Search Engine
Good Website Design Create and follow an objective or mission Eliminate User Thinking Make your site as easy to navigate as possible The less button to click, the better Use large buttons for important things and small ones for less important things Keep text interesting but simple Don’t try crazy text Avoid too many unique elements Have a color theme Keep updating and refining your website
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Elements of web design Design Organization Theme is pleasing to the eye Theme is consistent throughout all of the website Colors fit well Not too many colors Sleek in design and streamlined for ease of use Organization Organization of pages is not confusing Easy to find all of the pages Main menu is complete with all of the options needed Not overcrowded
Elements of web design Images Formatting Images are meaningful Images look well made Not a bad resolution Images don’t take away from the objective of the page Formatting Format is the font and font colors and the way the page is laid out Format is easy to navigate Font types are not crazy and are easy to read Font colors are not offensive to the eye There are no grammar or spelling issues
Elements of web design Navigation Mechanics Credibility Well organized Navigation bar is easy to find Titles and subtitles are clearly labeled Mechanics The videos and pictures do what they are supposed to do No broken links All referenced material (YouTube videos) work as they are supposed to Credibility All sources are cited appropriately
Website Rubric Practice On profjonesenglish.weebly.com, download the Website Rubric in Internet Writing. Visit these websites and grade them based on their rubric: https://www.swiss.com/worldofswiss/en/ https://nmg-group.com/ http://www.pnwx.com/ https://www.mikiyakobayashi.com/ http://arngren.net/ http://www.wateronwheels.com/ https://crypton.trading/ https://www.koreanair.com/global/en.html What do you think about the quality of these sites?
Blog evaluation Using this rubric, evaluate your own blog and how you can improve. No writing assignments today!
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