1. Seng and Wavering present:

3.  Don’t forget your paperwork!  Will be developing a website for a client – usually a club, nonprofit, or other worthy cause

4.  Websites have moved beyond individually hand-built pages.  Web Development Frameworks  Content Management System

5.  Aim to make development of complicated sites easier by automating common features and organizing the code you write.  Follow generally accepted “best practices”  PHP – CakePHP, CodeIgniter  Ruby – Ruby on Rails  Python - Django

6.  Contain libraries for database access, session management, templating web pages  Written in a particular language – PHP, Ruby, Python are common  Abstract lower-level interfacing so that you only have to worry about higher-level functionality

7.  Software that allows you to manage websites without having to manually edit HTML  Simple CMS (https://www.simplecms.com/)  Cushy CMS (http://www.cushycms.com/)  Indexhibit (http://www.indexhibit.org/)  Wordpress (http://wordpress.org/)http://wordpress.org/  Drupal (http://drupal.org/)

8.  http://demo.simplecms.com/preview/   class="editable"

9.  Originally a blogging platform, but capabilities have grown to include standard website features.  We will be looking at Wordpress in more depth next week –installation and maintenance

10.  http://allthingsd.com/ http://allthingsd.com/  http://www.deliciousdays.com/ http://www.deliciousdays.com/  http://www.speaker.gov/blog/ http://www.speaker.gov/blog/  http://welovewp.com/ http://welovewp.com/

11.  How to register a domain  How to buy hosting  Uploading and maintaining your site  Site analytics

12.  Use your google-fu to find the Wordpress “Famous 5-minute Install Guide”. Read. Email us a short summary.  Fill out paperwork and bring to class.  Start thinking about projects for next semester.