An introduction to website design
Writing a page using HTML
HTml is a programming language, covered in more detail in the next session, which allows the designer to dictate content, colours and formatting through a text-based script.
Web design or WYSIWYG software
As many more people became interested in web design, software packets have developed to remove the need to learn and program HTML from scratch.
Website content management system
Creating a website using HTML or specific software both required the site to then be uploaded to the host for viewing on the internet. An online CMS allow a user to log into an already constructed website and customise completely to meet there own needs.
Web design development layers
Content layer
The actual text and imagery, how it is structured and linked together is called the content layer. This will generally be created using HTML.
Presentation layer
The presentation layer defines the format of a page through styling elements. This will maintain the consistency in the choices of fonts, colours, sizes and page styling. This is normally done through the creation of cascading style sheet and applying it to one or multiple pages.
Behaviour layer
Real time interactive or dynamic content on a site that provides user with something to do is often generated using Javascript and this is the behavior layer. This may include image galleries, forms, the setting of multimedia element sizes or adding a live clock, video or music track.
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