web development overview
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Powerpoint was originally designed by Dr. Cindy Royal. The document discusses the history and categories of web development including basic HTML design from the early 1990s using HTML and CSS. It describes the emergence of web programming using server-side languages like PHP, Python and Ruby as well as databases and content management systems. Blog platforms, web frameworks, and challenges of web development are also summarized.
web development overview
- 1. powerpoint originally designed by dr. cindy royal Web Development Jacie Yang Assistant Professor School of Jour & Mass Comm Texas State University jacieyang@gmail.com @jacieyang
- 2. Intro html css ftp domain, file organization javascript, php, python, ruby. Flash…?
- 3. Web Development Categories Basic HTML design Programming emerges Blog Platforms Content Management Systems Web Frameworks Other
- 4. Basic HTML Design HTML – early 90s, language of the Web Became XHTML to add structure, conventions – early 2000's; now moving to 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
- 5. 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
- 6. Blog Platforms Started as platform 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, Posterous, Pinterest
- 7. Content Management Systems Wordpress has often been modified as CMS Drupal Joomla
- 8. Web Frameworks Set up frameworks 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
- 9. Data Visualization is the Future
- 10. Open Source Tools • Google – Charts and Fusion Tables • Scraperwiki • Impure, Yahoo Pipes • ManyEyes • Protovis • Tableau Public • Timeflow
- 11. Challenges Ahead Lots to learn Different ways to tell stories Programming Focus Innovate!