Website Design

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Facebook, Myspace, Yahoo, Google, and Twitter are all websites that people use every day, but how did they get there and how were they created? Website design is a process of assorting and linking codes and graphics into a text editor such as notepad and then displaying it onto a web browser. There is a large amount of things to remember for website design. Ranging from HTML, CSS, and XHTML codes to scripting languages like Java Script. Website design has a vast history considering it is a fairly young profession. Website design uses complex codes to create web pages in addition with programs aiding in the creation; when you join the two components together it is a long complicated process that ends in purchasing a domain name for a finished product.

The Internet never started out as a way to socialize with one another by social networking or to play games online. It was created in the 1960s for scientists and military personnel to exchange important and sometimes top secret information through telephone lines, which took a very long time compared to our high speed internet providers today. However, in the 1980s the Internet spread to more public professions such as hospitals, schools, government agencies, and businesses. As the decade continued the internet became accessible to anyone with a modem, a computer, and a telephone line. The first web browser was called Mosaic. People were amazed at how successful the program was. Finally, anyone could view documents through using the Internet. This began the era of website development. The websites of old would never stand up to what we have today. The only way to develop a website in the 1980s and early 1990s was to use Hyper Text Markup Language or HTML code. This did not give web...

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...ddress.com”. Without the attribute in the element the browser would not know to link THE LINK NAME to webaddress.com. This is just one example. Attributes can also change background color, background images, text color, font type, font size, and so on.

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Book:

Weixel, Suzanne. Multimedia Basics. 2nd ed. Australia: Thomson/Course Technology, 2007. Print.

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