This was a workshop we did while some of our collegues were away in Poland. As we stayed, we had a representitive from Poland come over here and give us a lecture about creating our own websites, his name was Rafel. First, he started his talks about the different types of websites and why they were important. Below are some of the notes I made from the lecture we had:
Building a website
Address – what is the domain name of the website
Hosting – Where the website is physically located
Platform – Build the page from scratch or use a proper tool to build it
Content – Content and the layout of all the components
Publish – Final form of the website and share it on the net
How to build the website
By coding
HTML (it is not a programming language)
CSS (cascade styles)
PHP (one of the available languages to build dynamic web pages)
JavaScript (using script language)
Use proper tools
You can use a platform for this task
By composing specific set of tools
Make some research or do some courses
To sneak a peek how others do it
What are the requirements when building a website today?
Responsive
User friendly
CMS (Content Management Systems)
Security
Up to date
Multiplatform
Multi web browser friendly
How to not build a website/what not to use
MUSE
Adobe XD
Any other tool for “prototyping”
These programs do not build websites. They do layout of the page. This is one of the components that is part of the website
Most common website build platforms
Wordpress
Wix
Joomla
Drupal
Domain Providers: www.bluehost.com, www.dotster.com
What do we need to check?
PHP version
MySQL version
How much space they offer
Net transfer
Number of domain names
Security (SSH)
Key terms while searching
How to build webpage
Wordpress from scratch
Start webpage
We wroked with Wordpress and got to understand the logistics and funcitons behind it, and it was really informative to learn all the different possibilities from this platform. Another great feature which I took away from this was the fact that it was free. This is very rare with website building platforms nowadays.
Some of us weren't fully comfortable with Wordpress however, and Rafal gave us the option to create our websites on Adobe Portfolio.
Overall, I learnt a lot from this workshop, and my final product is of course my Adobe Portfolio website.