Web Authoring
Web Authoring
Terminology
Authoring: An authoring system is a program that has pre-programmed
elements for the development of interactive multimedia software titles.
Authoring systems can be defined as software that allows its user to
create multimedia applications for manipulating multimedia objects. When
you use lots of different assets, like pictures, videos, text this is exactly
what Authoring is, we use them together to create a piece of multimedia
work. The final product when they are placed together, through pictures,
videos, text all come together to make a final slideshow. Authoring is
referring to how the final product is saved and how it is formatted, an
example on a website would be, the product needs to be saved as
different images and then something thats called HTML coding. if it was a
slideshow, then it can be formatted as a slideshow for a website, which is
actually one of the save as options from the file menu in PowerPoint.
Authoring can sometimes have different meanings and one of these
different terms could create a piece of software. Sometimes authoring can
mean a programme like Dreamweaver, Premiere and even Photoshop,
where you can create a website by looking at the design and dragging
pictures around, Weebly is a perfect example, Weebly is a web-hosting
service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder. As of August 2012,
Weebly hosts over 20 million sites with a monthly rate of over 1 million
unique visitors. The company is headquartered in San Francisco. Weebly
lets you crop edit and add photos to your website including videos, Polls
and text. I have been placing my work on Weebly.
Web Page:
Web page construction: The techniques you use in constructing your website
can add a professional touch to the final presentation of your website content.
Website construction should be deliberately thought out and monitored every
step of the way. In this way the development of your website theme can be
effectively accomplished.
By the use of consistent elements throughout the website and the application of
certain basic rules to your website structure you can produce a unified
appearance and functionality that will resound with the people who will be
visiting you. The plan for your website construction needs to be consistent in
layout and theme. You should maintain a uniformity of thought and purpose in
your website design when involved in your website construction. The following
guidelines can help you to construct a website that is both logical and appealing.
Text:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Heading</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
Fonts:
<h1 style="font-family:verdana;">This is a heading</h1>
<p style="font-family:courier;">This is a paragraph.</p>
Colour:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<h2 style="background-color:red">
Background-color set by using red
</h2>
<h2 style="background-color:orange">
Background-color set by using orange
</h2>
<h2 style="background-color:yellow">
Background-color set by using yellow
</h2>
<h2 style="background-color:blue;color:white">
Background-color set by using blue
</h2>
<h2 style="background-color:cyan">
Background-color set by using cyan
</h2>
</body>
</html>
Alignment:
<html> <head> <title>Text Alignment</title> </head> <body> <H1>Text
Alignment</h1> <P align="center">This is Aligned Center</center> <P
align="left">This is aligned Left</left> <p align="right">This is aligned
right</right> <hr> </body> </html>
Tables:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<table style="width:100%">
<tr>
<td>Jill</td>
<td>Smith</td>
<td>50</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Eve</td>
<td>Jackson</td>
<td>94</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>John</td>
<td>Doe</td>
<td>80</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
Hyperlinks:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Metadata:
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="description" content="Free Web tutorials">
<meta name="keywords" content="HTML,CSS,XML,JavaScript">
<meta name="author" content="Hege Refsnes">
</head>
HTML:
HTML is a mark-up language for describing web documents. HTML stands for
Hyper Text Mark-up Language. A mark-up language is a set of mark-up tags.
HTML documents are described by HTML tags. Each HTML tag describes different
document content. A small HTML document, would contain <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Page Title</title>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
HTML elements form the building blocks of all websites. HTML allows images and
objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms. It provides
a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for
text such as headings, paragraphs, lists, links, quotes and other items.