L1: INTRODUCTION TO WEBSITE DESIGN

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Introduction

Web designing is also called Web Authoring.

Text, images, digital media and interactive elements are used by web designers to produce the page seen on the web browser.

What Is website design?

Web Design and Publishing  is the process of planning, creating, manipulating, saving and uploading hyperlinked html documents (web pages) to a computer network so that they can be viewed via web browsers.

What are examples of web Design / Authoring software

A web Design / authoring Software is specifically designed to allow you to create web pages and web sites.There are lots of good web design software on the market today and these include ;

  1.  Note Pad
  2. Microsoft FrontPage 2003
  3.  Adobe Dreamweaver CS4
  4.  WebPlus X4 (Now owned by Microsoft)
  5. Microsoft Expression Web 3.0 & Studio 3

Some of terminologies used in web design

o A website. Is a collection of related web pages.
o A webpage. Is a document on a website, which can contain text, pictures, sound, and video (multimedia).
It is also defined as a document available on the web that is createdusing HTML and viewed with in a web browser. Each webpage has a unique address called a URL.( Uniform Resource Locator)
o A web designing program is a computer program used to create, edit and update web pages / websites. I have talked about some of these programs aboves.
o A web designer/webmaster is a person responsible for developing web pages and maintaining a website.
o A web browser. Is application software which enables auser to display and view Web pages

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Examples of Web Browsers

A web browser allows you to find and view websites on the Internet. Even if you didn’t know it, you’re using a web browser right now to read this page! . Yes your Using a web browser and here are some examples of web browsers;

  1. Opera
  2. Google Chrome
  3. Mozilla Firefox
  4. Internet Explorer
  5. Safari
  6. Microsoft Edge

Now since you know some of the examples , Observe the images below and indentify the icon of a browser your using .

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