Adobe GoLive - Lesson 1

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Site Brainstorming

Brainstorming is a valuable tool to help begin to visualize and organize content for a Web site. Click here for a printable Site Brainstorm guide (PDF).

Transferring Files with Fetch

Fetch is an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program for macs. Click here for a printable guide to using Fetch (PDF).

Brief intro to Web Speak, markup languages, and stylesheets

SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language
HTML - HyperText Markup Language *
XML - eXtensible Markup Language *
XHTML - eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language *
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets *
XSLT - eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations
Other examples of "Markup Languages"

• Asyncronous JavaScript and XML supported inline editing (a more advanced, less "markupy" example)
• Wikimedia

URL - Universal Resource Locator *
URI - Universial Resource Identifier *
PURL - Persistent URL
Review Example sites (highlight purpose, content, layout, color, navigation, & file structure)

• Apple's site
• Marie's site (including Course site)
• Another Academic Vita-type site
• Peep Research site
• CSS Zen Garden (Gemination by Egor Kloos)

Brainstorming Site Organization & Navigation Page Layout

• Fixed
• Liquid

Color Schemes/Colorblind (including Visibone)
Browser differences

* You should know the acronym and its meaning