Final Touches Final Touches Miss DinnellaMiss Dinnella

Overview During this class we have learned most of the

components to a good website:

This lesson will go over the final touches to a successful, well-though, interactive and creative website

Splash Page Generally consists of a default home page

that displays the web site logo or some other web site promotion

Many splash pages use various types of interactive media-from Flash moves to animated graphics-and are good mood setters

Example : Puma

Try to find your own Splash Page!

Frames An area that acts as an independent

browser window and acts independently of other regions in the window; using frames a web site is divided into multiple, scrollable regions, or panes.

Each frame contains its own source document

Ex. You have four different HTML documents displaying in a single window

Frames You can create a web page to display the

common links in one frame

Display the target web page in another frame

Display a navigation bar consisting of links in one frame and displaying the corresponding web pages in another

Placing a number of images in one frame and displaying the accompanying descriptions in another

Placing a list of vocabulary words in one frame and displaying their definitions in another

Static Frame Do not change; contents remained fixed,

even as new pages display in adjoining frames

Advantages of Frames

Navigations-related graphics do not have to be reloaded for every page in the web site

Each frame can have its own scroll bar, permitting the visitor to scroll the frames independently

Static content remains fixed

Content and navigation can be separated from each other in a clear way

Disadvantages of Frames

Some browsers and Netscape in particular, do not support the file:// protocol . The link to home or index page in this project, therefore, will not work in Netscape unless modified in the code

Frames may be difficult to navigate for visitors with disabilities

Publishing Your Website

Before publishing your website on iWeb you have to create a .mac account.

Use File-Publish or Publish button

iWeb translates your designs into HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) also prepares your graphics and then transfers everything to Apple’s servers, which dish it out the world.

Every time you make a change to your site you MUST republish it

Continued… Normally a published site means everyone can

see it.

You can post a guard on your site (at the door); using the Site inspector, you can specify a user name and password that visitors must specify before they can see your site.

You can also publish your website to a folder on your hard drive. You might take this path if you plan to transfer your site to a different Internet provider or burn your site to a CD or DVD