How is it all done: behind the scenes of websites.
As a simple person, it’s quite hard to admit how it is all done. Websites now are almost being used for every purpose. Let it be anything for fun, for portfolios, company websites, shopping, banking, etc. So how is it all done? Can I do it? How much does it Cost? Do I need to be an expert to make a website?
Well it is not as hard as it looks but when you keep on enhancing your website, it gets complicated. The more drastic effects you involve the complex the code gets. So what is behind the entire web? HTML, XHTML, etc allow users to design web pages. There are add-ons such as Java script, ASP, dynamic effects etc.
Well let’s see what an html page looks like
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<html> <title> no title </title> <body bgcolor= “black” text= “white”> <H1>This is a test page<H1> </body> </html> |
This is a very simple code; you can try evaluating it by copying it and pasting it in notepad and saving the file as *.html where * is the name. You can run the file in any explorer such as Firefox, opera, Internet explorer, Google chrome, etc. The words in bold are referred to as tags a tag is normally enclosed within < —- >. This can be considered as a simple web page which will allow user to create a web page with a black background and white text.
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<html> <title> no title </title> <body bgcolor= “black” text= “white”> <H1>This is a test page<H1> <script type =”text/javascript”> alert(“hello world”); </script> </body> </html> |
What about a little advance? Well it’s not that complicated. For example the code shown on the right. What will it do? It will do the same thing; the only difference is I added a simple java script which is an alert (error message) will pop up waiting for the user to click ok. The pop up will say “hello world”. The code for this is the code in bold. You can run this code the same way as above. (i.e. save as *.html where *is the file name)
What about graphics in web pages? By referring to thing I am talking about designing a web page? How all the beautiful web layouts are made? This is a question that many people ask to one self. I learnt a little html, but what to do to make beautiful graphics like those. Well the answer is using add-ons such as CSS, etc. and you can create the graphics in Adobe Photoshop. Other graphics software can also be used. Then the graphic is exported to html/htm format. And used for further designing and the development of the web page. The content is added. And finally uploaded to the server and that’s it your website is up and running and accessible to the world. There are some companies that let you design a web page for free of cost using there built in templates. If you want to see the source code of a webpage, right click and click view source in internet explorer, and right click and click view page source in firefox, Google chrome.
So how does it all turn out to be? Well being able to design professional web pages requires a lot of knowledge about web. Since the more things you put in a website the better it gets. The basic of all is HTML, so start off with HTML. And start coding. Happy coding
