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.

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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
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Basic HTML design
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Programming emerges
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Blog Platforms
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Content Management Systems
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Web Frameworks
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Other

4. Basic HTML Design
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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
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Server-side
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ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby,
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Databases – MySQL
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Powerful functionality, server-side includes, post data to forms,
populate sites with data
Gave rise to Content
Management Systems

6. Blog Platforms
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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
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Movable Type – 2001; Six Apart
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Wordpress – 2003; can host yourself or on their site
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Now Tumblr, Posterous, Pinterest

7. Content Management
Systems
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Wordpress has often been modified as CMS
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Drupal
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Joomla

8. Web Frameworks
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Set up frameworks for Web programming languages
Easy way to provide for common methods and actions;
connection to database
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Ruby on Rails – written in Rails
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Django - Python
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CakePHP

9. Data Visualization is the Future

10. Open Source Tools
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Google – Charts and Fusion Tables
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Scraperwiki
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Impure, Yahoo Pipes
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ManyEyes
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Protovis
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Tableau Public
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Timeflow

11. Challenges Ahead
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Lots to learn
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Different ways to tell stories
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Programming
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Focus
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Innovate!