COURSE OUTLINE
LYCEUM-NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
Dagupan City
COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, ARCHITECTURE and INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Information Technology Department
COURSE OUTLINE
Introduction to Web
Second Semester AY 2007-2008
The course aims to provide the students sufficient knowledge about the World Wide Web. This course introduces the student the basics of web page designing with HTML and CSS in accordance with the current World Wide Web Consortium standards. Students will learn how to design website using HTML and CSS.
General Outline
At the end of the course, the students are expected to:
ABOUT THE WWW AND WEB DESIGN
About the World Wide Web and Web Design
What you'll learn here?
Hi! We start learning the background of the Web before anything else, so we’ll have an idea how it works!
Let’s start with a short History!
History of the WWW of the World Wide Web!
The internet had come first, followed by the World Wide Web. The heart of the web is the “hypertext”, it refers to documents having links which acts as a bridge to connect separate documents in relevant place.
It was Sir Tim Berners-Lee who was to blame on the ideas of hypertext during sometime in 1980’s and finally in the year 1989. It was in the year 1993 when the web browser (an application used to view web pages) called Mosaic was developed by Marc Andreesen, it is capable of viewing colors and image on web pages. In 1995, due to popularity of the graphical browser mosaic Microsoft had launched their web browser Internet Explorer which is also based on Mosaic. Since then, competition was set between Netscape (developer of Mosaic) and Microsoft and continuously created new web browser as much the web browser you are using nowadays. Some browsers did not come from Netscape and Microsoft which are: Opera, Mozilla and Firefox.
On the same year Mosaic was launched, a non profit, standard setting consortium was formed to set standards to the World Wide Web which is the World Wide Web Consortium which was led until today by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. For more details about W3C you may visit their site at http://www.w3c.org
Why have a website?
According to www.sws.wis.com. A Web site is simply a tool to give you or your business more public exposure and extend your public image. Additionally it gives your business a widely expanded market, greater credibility and ultimately more growth. A Web site won't eliminate the need to advertise in other media, but WWW advertising works very effectively as an integral part of your other forms of advertising. An effectively designed web site should even allow you to cut back on some of your other advertising costs.
I think that will be fine for you to know, so let's go with the other things that you should know.
For you to be able to create a site, we'll use HTML and CSS. Wondering what are those?? Then you'll now by reading the next part
The HTML and CSS
HTML
HTML is a language used to create web pages, this language is being used by the computer to display documents on a web browser program, and to be specific HTML is a mark-up language as it stands for Hypertext Mark-up Language in which in its basic form is used to position/arrange text, images and link documents. HTML is a simple text files. The only difference is that there is such thing so called as “Tag” who’s responsible for the way texts are to be displayed. Tags are being read by the web browser and tell it how the document is to be displayed.
CSS
CSS at the other side, stands for Cascading Stylesheet, the CSS is responsible for adding elegance and design on your page, It’s like a seasoning that is added up to your dish to make it complete and better! CSS is a breakthrough to add and control styles and layout of a single and even more web pages all at once. Stylesheet’s simply instructs the computer HOW HTML elements are to be displayed. For example, to apply color on a text.
The document for HTML is saved as an .html or .htm file, while CSS is as .css file.
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