The World of Web Development - 2017

The World of Web Development - 2017

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  Cindy Royal, Ph.D Professor TexasState University School of Journalism and Mass Communication croyal@txstate.edu cindyroyal.com @cindyroyal slideshare.net/cindyroyal The World of Web Development
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  Intro • html • css • ftp • how to geta domain, • file organization • javascript, etc. • Flash Then, this idea of using data on Web sites came about, and programs like PHP and ASP allowed programming concepts that allowed the Web to connect to databases. Now, there are multiple ways to have a fully featured, archived and searchable online presence, without having to know every technology. You can visualize these in phases or categories.
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  Intro • html • css • ftp • how to geta domain, • file organization • Flash Then, this idea of using data on Web sites came about, and programs like PHP and ASP introduced programming concepts that allowed the Web to connect to databases. Now, there are multiple ways to have a fully featured, archived and searchable online presence, without having to know every technology. You can visualize these in phases or categories.
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  Web Development Categories  BasicHTML design  Programming emerges  Blog Platforms  Content Management Systems  Web Frameworks  Other
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  Basic HTML Design  HTML– early 90s, language of the Web  Became XHTML to add structure, conventions – early 2000's; now HTML5  Cascading Stylesheets – CSS – 1996; current implementation CSS3  Javascript (1995), Flash (1996), AJAX, JQuery  All client-side languages – activity occurs at the client (user) level
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  Web Programming  Server-side  ASP, ColdFusion,PHP, Java, Python, Ruby  Databases – MySQL  Powerful functionality, server-side includes, post data to forms, populate sites with data  Gave rise to Content Management Systems
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  Blog Platforms  Started asplatform for online journaling; Web sites for people who didn't know html.  Early platforms – Open Diary, LiveJournal late '90s  Blogger -started 1999 by Evan Williams (also Twitter) and Meg Hourihan; purchased by Google 2003  Movable Type – 2001; Six Apart  Wordpress – 2003; can host yourself or on their site  Now Tumblr, Pinterest a
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  Content Management Systems  Wordpresshas often been modified as CMS - 26% of the Web powered by Wordpress  Drupal  Joomla  Squarespace  Wix  Weebly
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  Web Frameworks  Set upframeworks for Web programming languages  Easy way to provide for common methods and actions; connection to database  Ruby on Rails – written in Rails  Django - Python  CakePHP
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  Data Visualization isthe Future
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  Open Source Tools •Google – Charts and Fusion Tables • Google Drive • Knight Lab Tools – Timeline.js, Storymap.js • Tag Crowd • D3 • Python – can use to analyze data, scrape website, hit API.
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  Challenges Ahead  Lots tolearn  Different ways to tell stories  Programming  Focus  Innovate!