Web Development Overview

Welcome to the everchanging website development section of the Boomcity Tech Centre. Here lie collections of useful links, locations, scripts, ideas and examples of website construction.

Featured Pages

Website Development Site - Read and follow along this website walkthrough that describes how it was made in Dreamweaver CS3. Covers all the basic necessities of website creation. Great Reference for email links as well.

Online Video Portfolios - Need to get your reel online? Here lies a bunch of tips, tricks and links to help you out.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions Page Have a question of you own? Email the Tech Centre

Links

W3Schools.com - Learn how to write HTML, XML, and more

BlueHost - My abosolute favorite web hosting company (free domain with hosting + simple scripts)

Go Daddy - Domain Names with or without Webhosting (I use this for domains only, I host with BlueHost)

ICO plugin for Photoshop's Save As command to make your own favicon.ico for free

Image Galleries

These are various sites associates and students of mine have used to present their works online. Each has various levels of quality and expense. Some have extras that include ipod and ipad renditions of the portfolios, some don't. Some have student pricing, some cost an arm and a leg. Some have a trial period, some are free until you choose to upgrade. Choosing the right one is not an easy task don't hestitate to ask! Tech Centre

And don't ever forget about Wordpress, Blogger & Tumblr.

No promises below this point!

The following links may lead to dead ends, broken glass, or outdated references. Best wishes.

Introduction to the World Wide Web

Basic Site Development

Basic Site Demonstration 1

Basic Site Demonstration 2

CSS basic formatting

CSS Positioning Exploration

CSS advanced layouts, images and backgrounds

Multiple CSS - Screen, handhelp, and print style sheets

CSS absolutely positioned divs and pngs

Build a site with External CSS, Templates, snippets, and productivity tools

Webhosting Connecting to a server, site and file management

Creating an image Gallery

Video on the Web

Javascript Behaviours

Redirecting Blog Posts to another webpage

 

Flash

Flash Intro FLA

Loadmovie FLA

Loadmovie into a created EmptyMovie Clip FLA

Preloader FLA

Interactivity with XML FLA

Search Engine Optimization

Workshop finalizing websites, SEO

Uploading files to a webserver

Uploading to a server using FTP Commander