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- Web Site
- Site Layout
- Page Layout
- Graphics
- Flash and ActionScript
- Form
- HTML
- Javascript
- CGI script / Perl
- PHP script / SQL
Web sites can vary in size hugely from a single page with a paragraph of information, to 50-page sites with log in areas and multiple databases like SQL databases. Web sites, depending on their complexity can take months to complete or just a few weeks. They need a lot of planning and designing to get the most out of the site.
A site layout is how the web site is structured, what pages are contained in the site and how they are linked together. The pages maybe separated into different folders or they maybe be in the same folder.
A page layout is the design of the page. The layout involves areas for text and images and buttons or links for navigation to other pages.
Graphics are pictures. They can be static or animated. They can also have transparent backgrounds using the GIF format. An example of a graphic is the image at the top of this page.
Flashes are special types of animation. They can be bought alive using a scripting language called ActionScript. Flashes can used for showing videos and gathering user information and are highly interactive and customisable. Below is an example of a flash animation. This example uses a single animation of one box, which is the duplicated and then moved randomly by ActionScript. The lines are also randomly moved.
A form is where a user can input information to send to someone or use to get information from a web site. An example of a form is our Contact Form.
HTML stands for Hyper Text Mark-up Language and is the main programming language used for creating web sites.
Javascript is another type of programming language. It can be used for simple things such as changing the background colour of a page or more complicated tasks like changing text depending in browser type or validating form information. A javascript is used to control the to top button on this page.
CGI script is a server based script. It can be used for sending information from forms and creating things like counters and guestbooks.The main language used in CGI scripts is Perl.
PHP scripts are like CGI scripts. PHP can be used for more advanced tasks such as creating databases for things like client information and service information. SQL is the type of database used in PHP scripting.