Download Creating WWW pages using Dreamweaver

Using the WWW in Teaching and
Learning
Barbara Watson
Andrew Stansfield
IT Service
Plan
• Presentation
– web authoring
– explanation of HTML
• Demo of Dreamweaver
• Create your own WWW page
• Publish your WWW page
Why author on the Web?
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Support teaching and research
Increasing use of WWW for teaching, research
and e-commerce
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almost 40% of users connected in past year
more than 1/5 of adult population using the Internet
Global audience as widely accessible and
platform independent
Attractive and can include images, sound, video
No paper, no distribution, immediate updates
It’s easy!
Terms
• Internet - network of computers
• WWW (World Wide Web)
– part of the Internet
• HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language)
– standard language of the WWW
• HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)
– rules for communication
Web Architecture
• Web is based on a client/server architecture using
• HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Set of rules for communication between Web clients and servers
Give me file x
Desktop
computer
- “client”
Here it is
Unix, Macintosh, PC ...
Computer on the
Internet holding
information remote “server”
Web authoring tools
• easy to use with toolbars, buttons
• create files in one package and edit in
another
• Dreamweaver http://www.macromedia.com/
• Frontpage
• Netscape Communicator
• Word
Further information
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http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/WWW/
http://www.dur.ac.uk/ITS/T_and_L/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/webwise/
http://www.cti.ac.uk/publ/primers/
Summary
• create WWW pages using Dreamweaver
• publish your page
• have fun!