Web 2.0--not a new technology, but a new outlook in business

Review

Steps to buid a website:

1. Planning a WebSite :Search domain name available
2. Determining the Site Mission: Purpose of this site
3. Determining the Audience
4. Organizing Content--site map, menu bar and drop down menu widget.
5. Determining Technologies for a Site: Search web host that can provide the technology/services.
6. Creating a Mock-up: start to create the pages
7. Appling Design Principles: keep the same look and feel through the site-style sheet.
8. Developing Readable Content for the Web: text choice and content information source.
9. Improving Readability: accessibility issues .
10. Performing Usability Testing
11. Increasing Search Engine Rankings

• Wikis, blogs, social network, RSS etc... are not much new technology, but just new innovative usages of the web...
  RSS video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0klgLsSxGsU
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UW6lqGcjdlA&NR=1
• Introduce a new approach to the web application: AJAX http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/

Demos and exercises:

• Select one of the designs folder and create a new Dreamweaver site from it.
• Modify design images and logo with photoshop.
• Pull all the linked web sites such as picasa, youtube, blog, facebook... into your personal site-use old, but still useful technology: frame. Create new--> frame set.
• Modify javascript or rolled-over images.