Design of Web sites

Creation and the design of a Web site are a process which implies some simple stages at the beginning, but being able on a site led to implement means and competences very important. A Web site, that can be a simple page with the format HTML, or thousands of pages proposing of animations, the services programmed in Java, or another language waiter, of the forms supposing a treatment in JavaScript, or AJAX. It can rest on technologies of databases, p.ex. MySQL].

History

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, put on line very first Internet site in August 1991, making of him the very first originator of site (Web designer). The site used for the first time a Hypertext link and a bond towards an address e-mail.

At the beginning, Internet sites were written in basic HTML, a language which gives to Internet sites a basic structure (titles and paragraphs), as well as the possibility of using bonds hypertexts. It was an innovation and it was basically different from the preliminary forms of communications, the users could easily open other pages.

As the Internet and the design of site progressed, the language which formed the pages, the " Hypertext Language" Mark-up; or HTML, became more provided and flexible. A new element, the tables, in which one can post data, were quickly diverted of their initial objective and were used like means of page layout. With the appearance of the CS and style sheets, the page layout with the tables was quickly regarded as obsolete. Modern technologies which used databases, or coding side waiter (see cgi, ASP.NET, ASP, JSP, and ColdFusion), as well as the standards of design as CS improved still more and diversified the tools of design of site.

The appearance of Flash, developed by Macromedia, which makes it possible to carry out animations like diffusing sound and video, also changed the appearance of Internet, by offering new charts to the originators of sites. However, Flash is much more restrictive than the HTML because it is a format protected by Macromedia, and it requires one plug-in being posted.

A rather recent technique called remote coding allowed a use of more dynamic Internet of way, without requiring plug-in or of specialized applications. The leader of these technologies is AJAX, but it is not only existing technology. In addition, AJAX did not reach the statute of standard yet.

Stages of creation

According to the type of site, context and means available to implement it some of these stages are optional even useless.

Reflection on the objective of the site, its profitability, financial means to engage…
Reflection on the contents: definition of a Tree structure
Reflection on desired autonomy and the type of human means to make the update.
possible Choice of a Agency Web (in this case certain of the following stages are then managed by the agency).
Deposit of a Domain name.
Choice of a shelterer.
Establishment of a structure of pages HTML or XHTML.
Developed of a graphic Charter.
Choice and installation of a Management system of contents (SPIP, Wiki…) or choice of a editor of Web site of the type WYSIWYG (examples: NVU, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Microsoft Frontpage) or text (example: Bluefish, Emacs,…).
Creation of pages via the Management system of contents or the editor. The pages can be created individually or rest on a system of gauges.
Integration of the graphic Charter via the style sheets CS.
Optimization: preparation of the site for the search engines.
the Référencement is the final stage.

The accessibility of the site is a data to be taken into account with each stage starting from the development of the structure of the pages. It is partially the same referencing.

Components of the pages

the structure of the page, in HTML or XHTML
design via the style sheets CS.
graphics with images GIF, JPG, png.
Of animations in Flash or SVG.
Of the multimedia objects.
Of the forms, possibly treated in AJAX.

Programming of the services

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