1. Five Golden Rules about building Web Pages and Web Sites |
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Before you start building a web site, it's worth learning about some key things that apply to web page and web site building. Web sites are made up of a series of 'pages', generally written in a programming language called HTML. When you web browser opens a web page, what it is doing is 'interpeting' the HTML code that makes up that page and tells the browser how to show the text and pictures on the page. Because HTML is not a very sophisticated language and was originally intended for simple text pages, there are limits to what it is able to do. Also, because web pages are accessed remotely across the internet, the way that they are put together as a 'web site' must be done in a specific way, or they will not work properly in a browser. So it is worth studying and remembering the Five Golden Rules below. |
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| Rule 1 | ALL site pages and resources (images, music files, videos etc.) for a web site must be contained in the 'Site Folder' - a single folder (that can have sub folders inside it). | ||
| Rule 2 | ALL web folders, web pages and resources should be saved in lower case letters (NOT CAPITALS). | ||
| Rule 3 | The 'home page' of a published web site should always be saved with the file name 'index'. | ||
| Rule 4 | ALL web folders, web pages and resources should be saved with no spaces or 'reserved' characters (i.e. the question mark (?), forward or backward slash (/ , \) in the filename. Link separate parts of a name with an underscore ( _ ) if you need to. | ||
| Rule 5 | ALL web page resources should be optimised for the final page - i.e. pictures should be at 72 dots per inch resolution at the size they appear on the web page. Music and videos should be compressed into a 'streaming' format - if you are embedding a video from another site - i.e. Youtube this will usually be handled by them and it will be handled as a 'server side' object. | ||
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