Introduction to Website Design
Created by David Smith (dave@cansmith.com)
http://www.cansmith.com
What is the Web?
The World Wide Web is a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents (HTML).
... but it is not the same thing as the Internet.
Ok, so what is the Internet?
The web (HTML), but also
email, video, file sharing, games...
It is millions of computers worldwide, connected together to share information
(really) short history of the Internet
ARPANET - 1960s
Written about in 1961, created by US Department of defense in 1969
Internet - 1970s
email invented, Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn design TCP,
1976: Queen Elizabeth II sends her first email
(really) short history of the Internet
Internet - 1980s
DNS (.com, .net, .edu) system created
World Wide Web - 1990s
HTTP/HTML - the world wide web - created by Tim Berners-Lee
Some statistics
The first website info.cern.ch was published in 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee
Some notable websites and their launches:
1995: Amazon
1998: Google
2004: Facebook
2005: YouTube
2006: Twitter
In September 2014 there were 1 billion websites
Hosting options
Buy a domain
www.mydomain.com
Register: Many options (ex. Namecheap, Gandi, name.com)
Search: Lean Domain Search
Website builders
web.com
wix
weebly
Wordpress
More than 60 million websites
Started as a blogging platform
HTML
Learning HTML
By example: View source
Other technologies used in most web pages
What about mobile?
Website Types
Traditional / CMS
ex. Yahoo
Web application
ex. Google Maps
Blog
ex. TechCrunch
One page
ex. Cansmith