All pages will use the same starting point and a basic structure. This is what we’re going to start building. Now it won’t really be effective for anything but the most basic pages, but it gives it the necessary start that all HTML 5 pages need. First, we need to define what we call the…
Website reviews should be used as a learning experience for developers, both new and experienced. What is even nicer, is that you can easily review other peoples’ websites without needing to see their source code (unless it is a dynamic driven website) and this allows anyone to do a website review. Some common reasons you…
Before you start building any web page, no matter how simple or complex your project plans to be, it’s good to determine the needs of your website first. The design and needs of your project will often determine how you organize your site and start building it. The first thing to do is determine who…
First, only have one working set of files. It is easy to have copies of files in multiple locations. One copy might be on your personal machine, one copy on a thumb drive, and another on a school lab machine. Saving a backup copy is a good idea, in case something happens, but having multiple…
Regardless of the size of the project, it is important to have a good organizational plan to make it easier to work with the project. As they say, failing to plan is planning to fail. It is important to understand how your files will be organized both logically as well as physically. Additionally, if you…
Web Server Hardware Depending upon your website and the resources it will need, you may need a single low performance box as a web server, multiple clusters of physical devices, or something in between the two extremes. Companies like Google, Amazon, Facebook, etc. have multiple server farms spread out all over the world to make…
Most of the time, if you ask someone how a web browser works, they will say it is used to display a web page. A slightly more technical answer might be, it downloads a web page and associated files, and displays it based upon the HTML codes. While this is correct, it is correct only…
A web page is made up of tags, which help tell the browser how to display a webpage. Within a tag, you may have attributes which provide some additional information to help display the webpage better. Tags Tags are used to define the elements within a web page. Tags are enclosed within angle brackets, <…
