Session 2.1
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Learn about Web Design principles
Draw a storyboard
Create external links
Create email links
Create internal links
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What is a good website from a design
standpoint?
C.R.A.P. principles
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF_mWi6r-9I
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Importance of business strategy for your
website
Understand the client
 Tool: Client interview
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Organizing the content of the website
 Website functionalities
 Storyboard
Use of the <a> tag
 Syntax:
<a href= “reference”>content</a>
 Attributes of the a element (See page HTML
84).
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<a href=“http://www.cnn.com” >CNN</a>
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Use of complete URL
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With title attribute:
<a href= “http://www.cnn.com” title=“Link to the CNN Web site” >CNN</a>
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With blank target:
<a href=“http://www.cnn.com” target= “_blank”>CNN</a>
Create a folder and name it camshots.
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.
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 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>
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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.
Add Photo Contest as the subject line within
the email link.
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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>
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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.
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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>
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Directly below the header element, create a
navigation list containing an unordered list
with the following list items as hyperlinks:
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c.
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Home linked to the index.html file
Tips linked to the tipweek.html file
Contest linked to the contest.html file
Glossary linked to the photogloss.html file
Copy the navigation bar and paste it
on index.html, tipweek.html, and
photogloss.html.
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Links to non-HTML documents: Word
documents, PDF documents, etc.
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Examples on some existing Web sites.
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Example:
<a href=“docs/bylaws.pdf”>Company’s By-Laws</a>
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<a> tag
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Possible attributes:
 href
 title
 target