The World of Web Development

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The World of Web Development
Cindy Royal, Ph.D Associate Professor Texas State
University School of Journalism and Mass
Communication croyal_at_txstate.edu www.cindyroyal.co
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Intro

• html
• css
• ftp
• how to get a domain,
• file organization
• javascript, etc.
• Flash
• Then, this idea of using data on Web sites came
  about, and programs like PHP and ASP allowed
  programming concepts that allowed the Web to
  connect to databases.
• Now, there are multiple ways to have a fully
  featured, archived and searchable online
  presence, without having to know every
  technology. You can visualize these in phases or
  categories.

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Web Development Categories

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

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Basic HTML Design

• 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

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Web Programming

• Server-side
• ASP, ColdFusion, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby,
• Databases MySQL
• Powerful functionality, server-side includes,
  post data to forms, populate sites with data
• Gave rise to ContentManagement Systems

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Blog Platforms

• 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
• Movable Type 2001 Six Apart
• Wordpress 2003 can host yourself or on their
  site
• Now Tumblr, Posterous, Pinterest

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Content Management Systems

• Wordpress has often been modified as CMS
• Drupal
• Joomla

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Web Frameworks

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

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Data Visualization is the Future
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Open Source Tools

• Google Charts and Fusion Tables
• Scraperwiki
• Impure, Yahoo Pipes
• ManyEyes
• Protovis
• Tableau Public
• Timeflow

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Challenges Ahead

• Lots to learn
• Different ways to tell stories
• Programming
• Focus
• Innovate!