Using FrontPage to Create Web Pages

1) What steps are recommended in planning your site?
Create a goal. Sketch out the structure of the site on paper beforehand. Sketch a common layout for each page. 

2) What is a web server?  
A web server is a computer that runs special serving software.That software 'serves' HTML pages and associated files when requested by a client, such as a web browser. When you use your browser to visit a site, you typically make your request by entering a URL. When the server receives your request, it serves or downloads the page you need, plus all its associated files like pictures and so on.

3) How do you put your website on a web server?
To put your site on a web server you publish it. Publishing generally means copying all of the files to a remote location on a server. In most cases the remote location is either an HTTP path or FTP path. The path you use depends on what technologies your server supports. If your web server is running Front Page Server Extensions or Share Point Services you would would publish you site to a HTTP location. For example, http://MyServer/MyWebSite.

4) Front Page has 2 key functions- website design and management.

5) What is Front Page Metadata and which two folders contain these files?
Front Page metadata is information about your Front Page Website that makes managing the site possible. This data is used by Front Page to do all the great management features like creating & moving files, running reports and publishing. That's why you don't see all these files in Front Page because if you did see them they might get in the way of designing you site.
The _vti_cnf folder contains information about every file, such as which links are within the file and who modified the file and when. The _vti_pvt folder stores all the configuration inforamtion for the site, for example, which subsites are in the website and the permission configurations for the site.

6) There are 2 basic types of website that you can create in Front Page. What are they and how do they differ?

The 2 types are disk-based websites and server-based websites. 

A disk-based website is a site you create on your local hard drive. After you design and work on your site you can later publish it to a remote location like a web server. Disk-based sites are most commonly used because they have a clear advantage: you can edit and test them on your hard drive before they go live. 

A server-based website is a site that you create and work with directly on a web server. When you save your pages, the site is immediately updated. Some people refer to this as working with a website "in real time". 

 

Login Stuff

G'day all! Well I thought I should post about what I did in class today so I can look back and know what I am doing for the assignment. We started looking at login pages. Due to the fact that the actual login appears on the blog instead of the tag you need to go to a certain website to get the tag. What I did was type in 'javascript login free' into Google and click the first webpage that comes up. The title should have cut & paste in it.  

you have to put this tag in the body of the HTML. In the first set of ( ) where the quotation marks are is the username and password. The first quote ("free") is the username you can change the username by changing the word free. The second quote ("javascript") is the password. 

Once you have made the login page you then need to make a success and failure page for the login to work. Get a new notepad and put in the opening and closing and . In the body of it make a new paragraph and say something along the lines of 'you have successfully logged in'. You HAVE to name it "success.htm" okay or else it won't work. You can change what you want to call it by: after the part with the * in it where it says load ('succes.htm'); you change the part in the ' '.

You also have to make a page where it says something along the lines of 'you have failed to login' and make sure you name it failure.htm

Make sure you put all of these in the same folder, but it's easier if you make a folder just for this. 

Computing Anywhere, Anytime

What is meant by a netbook? What is the 'cloud' in cloud computing?

A netbook is a cheap (under $500), mini laptop however they can't handle extensive multi-tasking, they have minimal storage, cramped keyboards and small screens with bad resolutions. Cloud computing is used to allow services used in everyday practice to be moved onto the internet rather than stored on a local computer.

What applications does Google docs offer online? Why would you want documents stored in the 'cloud' online?

You can create documents, spreadsheets and presentations online. You can do all the basics like making bulleted lists, sorting by column, adding tables, images, comments, formulas, changing fonts, bold, underline, indent or changing background colour.

 If you have your documets online you can invite people to view or edit it when they sign in so it's good for group work. You only need a computer with the internet and it has an auto-save feature. You can control who sees it.

What advantages do students and teachers find in Google docs?

It's easy to prepare assignments, meetings, chat online and organise schedules, even within groups. Even without thier USB or hard-drive they can still do the assignment or take notes for it. One teacher added the power points  to it and in the chat part of it, the students chatted about the presentatin and asked questions about it.

Which netbook, if any, would suit your needs? Explain.

I would like the Wind U115 Hybrid because it has a really good battery life which means that I can do an assignment for a long time without it dying on me or having an annoying bubble to tell me to connect it to the power point. It has a good memory so I can store plenty of school work on it. It is light for a computer so I can carry it around with me easily. The mouse pad thingy is quite large so I can move the cursor around easy and the keyboard is large for a netbook so it makes it easier to type.

Screen Shots

This is the HTML of my first page:

This the finished product of my first page:

This is the HTML of my second page:

This is the finished product of my second page: