//What is the purpose of the website?
//Who is the website for? (target audience)
//What does the target audience need from the website?
(start looking at websites and asking these 3 questions)
/Design for lowest common denominator in order for website to be accessible to all.
/Sketch designs out first (scamp), makes coding easier.
/Book: HTML&CSS John Duckett
Not 72 dpi now, 96 dpi.
Work in code view.
Preview on internet not DW.
Code tags:
<html>
open html -from this point forward going to be writing in html.
</html>
close html -not talking in html anymore.
<head>
function of website. not for the design. not visible in the design of the website.
<title>
visible at top of web browser.
<body>
visible in the design on the website. anythings outside these tags won't be visible.
meta tags: keywords search engines will find.
/Everything must be inside one folder, else will not work.
/Create 'root folder' in user work area. DO NOT use capitals in title.
/Sub folder 'images' (all type in lower case)
/To make a website go live you have to buy space on a server. Send your folder to that computer. Buy URL for people to be able to access it. Link these together and website displayed.
/Create new site
/Name it same as root folder
/Select root folder
/Site will link
/Save as: index.html this is a global name used.
/Save and preview every little change you make to ensure each piece of coding works.
/we are going to create one page that links up with 3 others.
/NEVER copy&paste code
/Create CSS document to link to all of the html pages. Only needs to do html once.
/Create new CSS document
/Can only see in code view. Need to link to html page in order to see.
/Can make notes ....
/To create body.
/Font family...
CLOSE WITH SEMI-COLON
/Save style sheet (use all lower case, no space)
