Tuesday, August 14, 2007

HTML Web Design - Homework Assignment 02

Write a paragraph about 3 things a Web Developer should take into consideration when designing/coding a web site.

10 comments:

Young said...

1. Define Hypertext Markup Language.



HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of labels (known as tags), surrounded by less-than (<) and greater-than signs (>). HTML can also describe, to some degree, the appearance and semantics of a document, and can include embedded scripting language code which can affect the behavior of web browsers and other HTML processors.



2. Name two different web browsers other than Internet Explorer.



1. Mozilla Firefox

2. Safari



3. What is the function of a web server?





Although Web server programs differ in detail, they all share some basic common features.

HTTP: every Web server program operates by accepting HTTP requests from the network, and providing an HTTP response to the requester. The HTTP response typically consists of an HTML document, but can also be a raw text file, an image, or some other type of document (defined by MIME-types); if something bad is found in client request or while trying to serve the request, a Web server has to send an error response which may include some custom HTML or text messages to better explain the problem to end users.
Logging: usually Web servers have also the capability of logging some detailed information, about client requests and server responses, to log files; this allows the Webmaster to collect statistics by running log analyzers on log files.
In practice many Web servers implement the following features too.

Authentication, optional authorization request (request of user name and password) before allowing access to some or all kind of resources.
Handling of not only static content (file content recorded in server's filesystem(s)) but of dynamic content too by supporting one or more related interfaces (SSI, CGI, SCGI, FastCGI, JSP, PHP, ASP, ASP .NET, Server API such as NSAPI, ISAPI, etc.).
HTTPS support (by SSL or TLS) to allow secure (encrypted) connections to the server on the standard port 443 instead of usual port 80.
Content compression (i.e. by gzip encoding) to reduce the size of the responses (to lower bandwidth usage, etc.).
Virtual Hosting to serve many web sites using one IP address.
Large file support to be able to serve files whose size is greater than 2 GB on 32 bit OS.
Bandwidth throttling to limit the speed of responses in order to not saturate the network and to be able to serve more clients.






source: www.wikipedia.org

Unknown said...

When we design a web site, we have to consider following three things: the target device, resolution of the monitor, and target web browser. Since HTML can be seen from cel phones, computers, and televisions, we have to choose for which device we design a web site. But still, each device has many types of models so that the monitor's sizes are different, too. So we have to make a design which corresponds to many sizes of the monitors. And at last, we have to decide the target web browser(s). It decides from which web browser(s) the web site can be seen. Though there are many kinds of web browsers, most people use Internet Explorer or Firefox.

Manami Nakano

Unknown said...

There are three things a web developer should take in to consideration when designing a website. The first is which taget device will be used; is it a cell phone, television, or computer? The second is the resolution of the computer. Finally, the third consideration should be what web browser might be used. Remembering these three things will help to designer reach his wanted audience.

Unknown said...

To have a succesful operational website, it has to contain nice attractions, it has to be easy to navigate around, and there has to be useful text that relates to the website. The developer should be looking at what would the website be useful for and he has to make sure that that site is operational to everyone. The reason why a website should be attractive is becuase the first thing when people enter a website they'll look at how it is displayed. I would think that the developer should focus mostly on the information that is relating to the website and also making the website easy to navigate. If one of the two were to be missing, it wouldnt make the website really helpful.

Unknown said...

Miki's Homework 02

Three things a web designer should consider when designing a web page are resolution, font, and negative space. The resolution must be one that is compatible with most internet browsers. Sometimes, if it is possible, it is a good idea to keep the resolution down to a minimum in order for it to run on as many browsers as possible. The font is another important aspect to take into consideration. Though one may be tempted to use interesting font, some people's browsers may not be compatible with the stranger fonts and your web page will revert to the default font, which often times ruins the web page. And finally, negative space deals with how aesthetically pleasing the web page is. If the web page is too crowded, the viewer can often times be put off and the web page is no longer easily readable, navigable, or pleasing to the eye. Keep the images down and include only the necessary things in the web page in order to place emphasis on what really matters. It also makes the web page look nicer.

Terry Kim said...

lesson 2H.W Terry Kim

At first, the designer has to choose the target device. In general, cel phone/pda, computer, and television are the main devices that the designer should think about. Secondly, the designer has to check out the resolution of the monitor. Thirdly, the encoding way among various kinds of web browser are different. So the code that we put in might be slightly different depends on the intended web browser.

Unknown said...

The three things a web developer should consider when designing a web site are that target device, resolution of monitor and taget web browser. there are three target devices that a web developer should target on and each devices are totally different from the others. For examle, cell phone, computer and TV. A web developer have to think about the resolution too. All the computers have different resolutioon so a web developer have to make a web site which is suitable for any resolution. Lastly, a web developer should consider which web browser to use because there are many of them and people use different web browser.

Lin said...

Three things you should take into consideration when designing a website is the type of device you wish it to be displayed on. Whether it be a cellular phone, a computer, or a television, You need to know which one due to the different resolutions. You need to know what resolutions your screen will be in to account for the different sizes for your web-based tables. Finally you need to know what type of web browser to use in case of Web distortions.

Young said...

When we create a web page, we should take these three design elements into consideration. 1)color- the colors used in web pages should not cause any eyestrain. Colors should be softened, still contrasting. Texts should always be legible with the backgroud colors. 2)fonts- We should be consistent with the fonts as much as possible in order not to interrupt viewer's reading the content. 3)the web page we make should be viewed flawlessly with devices such as PDA and cellular phones.

Unknown said...

Developers should take into consideration the target design, wether the device viewing the website is a cel phone, PDA computer, or television. Each of them have different resolution of the monitor and it can ruin the design on the website if the resolutions doesnt't match.
we also need to consider the web browsers that are going to be used in the devices because many people use different web browsers.