Session 2.1

Learn about Web Design principlesDraw a storyboardCreate external linksCreate email linksCreate internal links

What is a good website from a design standpoint?

C.R.A.P. principles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_

mWi6r-9I

Importance of business strategy for your website

Understand the client Tool: Client interview

Organizing the content of the website Website functionalities Storyboard

Use of the <a> tagSyntax: <a href= “reference”>content</a>Attributes of the a element (See

page HTML 84).

<a href=“http://www.cnn.com” >CNN</a>

Use of complete URL

With title attribute:<a href= “http://www.cnn.com” title=“Link to the CNN Web site”

>CNN</a>

With blank target:<a href=“http://www.cnn.com” target= “_blank”>CNN</a>

1. Create a folder and name it camshots.2. Download all the files from the practice folder

in tutorial.02 and save them in the camshots folder.

3. Open contesttxt.htm and save it as contest.html.

4. In contest.html, mark the text BetterPhoto.com as an hypertext link pointing to the URL http://www.betterphoto.com.

5. Set the attribute of the link so that it opens in a new browser window or tab.

What is an email link? Syntax:<a href=“mailto:address”>text</a> Example:

<a href=“mailto:caroline.collier@gcsu.edu”>Collier</a>

Adding the email subject to email link:

<a href=“mailto:address?subject=your subject”>text</a>

Example:<a href=“mailto:caroline.collier@gcsu.edu?subject=Project

%20Two”>Collier</a>

1. In the aside element, mark the text Gerry Hayward as a hypertext link to an email address with ghayward@camshots.com as the email address.

2. Add Photo Contest as the subject line within the email link.

Link to another Web page within the same Web site “Independent” internal link Internal links (part of the navigational

bar) Internal links to a local file

<a href =“photos.htm”>our photo gallery</a>

1. Scroll down to the second article. Link the text Child Photos to the child.html file. Link Flower Photos to the flower.html file. Link Scenic Photos to the scenic.html file.

Use of CSS to format the navigation bar Common use of internal links for the

navigation bar: The links are part of an unordered list inside the nav structural element.

Example:<nav><ul> <li><a href=“index.htm”>HOME</a></li> <li><a href=“about_us.htm>ABOUT US</a></li></ul></nav>

1. Directly below the header element, create a navigation list containing an unordered list with the following list items as hyperlinks:a. Home linked to the index.html file

b. Tips linked to the tipweek.html file

c. Contest linked to the contest.html file

d. Glossary linked to the photogloss.html file

2. Copy the navigation bar and paste it on index.html, tipweek.html, and

photogloss.html.

Links to non-HTML documents: Word documents, PDF documents, etc.

Examples on some existing Web sites.

Example:<a href=“docs/bylaws.pdf”>Company’s By-

Laws</a>

<a> tag

Possible attributes: href title target