A website is…
A collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server
What is a CMS (content management system)?
Software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content
What can you use a CMS system for?
A CMS System makes it easy to add new pages and edit existing pages on a website
What are some of the features of a CMS?
- Intuitive web based publishing
- WYSIWYG editing functionality
• Format management
• Revision control
• Indexing
• Search and retrieval
• SEO meta-tags and URLs
• Keyword specification
• Metadata
• Analytics
Scheduling
• Themes
• Templates
• Add-ons
• Widgets
• Plugins
• Basic image editing tools like cropping
resizing, rotating
• Ability to upload files such as PDFs and
Word documents
• Permissions/user access
• Security
What are the benefits of using a CMS?
What different types of hosting are there?
Self hosting and managed hosting
What are the advantages of self-hosting?
1,000s of themes • Ability to edit • 1,000s of plugins • Total control • Option to advertise, or not • Ability to access and backup files • Manage own database • Get things done immediately • Ownership
What are the advantages of managed hosting?
- Managed servers generally provide speed
- Security
- Expert support
- Daily backups
- Automatic updates
- No downtime
- Accessible developer tools
- Scalable
- Will cope with high bandwidth
What are the 2 x basic things you need to get a website online?
Host and Domain name
What is a domain name?
The address of you website? i.e. www.emerson.com
its a nice way of displaying IP addresses and is easier to remember than a set of numbers i.e. 77.157.23.1
Why do businesses need a website?
Assessible
Professional
Reputational
Why should a website’s navigation be simple?
Easy for the visitor to use (usability)
Easy for visitor to find what they are looking for
If too difficult, visitor could go elsewhere
What is a user experience?
should be produced with emphasis on the user
enjoyable to interact with
positive user experience to maximise usage or sales of a product/service
What do you need to know to create a Mobile website optimisation?
- website should be laid out with buttons mobile friendly
- keep layout simple
- resize images for mobile users
- optimise for multiple screens
- create mobile friendly landing pages
- Quick loading speeds on mobile
Name some IMAGE file types for web development?
.jpg .png .gif .tiff .pdf .eps .raw .svg .heic
Name some AUDIO file types for web development?
.mp3 .wav .m4a .wma .aac .flac .ogg
Name some VIDEO file types for web development?
.mp4 .mov .wmv .avi .flv
Name some TEXT file types for web development?
.doc .docx .txt .pdf .rft .html .xml
