Week 6 Lecture

Getting your pages on the web:
You need a domain name to get your site online. A good example is crazydomains.com.au which is australian based hosting. 1 GB is a lot of space on the internet and you can get this amount for $4.50 a month on this site.
.com is cheaper than .com.au as a domain name.
To get the files from your computer to a web server you need to use an FTP which is a file transfer protocol.

HTML files -> FTP -> Web Server -> Domain name

www.panic.com/transmit can be used for FTP and to upload files

transmit uploads your files to the web server when you select and drag them over from your computer to the html server.

to test the files have uploaded properly just enter the domain name into firefox etc.

dreamweaver also has ftp. just go to site -> new site, basic mode, type in the address, dont work with server technology just html and select ftp from menu to connect to remote server.

Week 5

Information Architecture Lecture:
Richard Saul Worman 1976 thought systematic design needed a series of performance criteria to measure it. structuring information in the most appropriate way can be organised by LATCH
L= location (maps on websites)
A= alphabet (store names on websites)
T= time (blogs)
C= category (music)
H= hierarchy (price from highest to lowest)

Week 4

I just completed chapter 4 of the textbook on creating a simple page. it was quite interesting to see the ways code creates the web pages. It actually seems to be quite simple as you just place in brackets the headings and paragraphs etc. the CSS seems to be the hard part. I also designed the home page for my stonefest website.