SC ICT CertificationLevel 1

SC ICT CertificationLevel 1

13 Web Publishing

By Ross Parker

Simple Web Publishing

• Traditionally, publishing to the web required:– Knowledge of HTML– A server– A domain name– An FTP client

• Now there are many simple ways to do this

What’s What?• All definitions are flexible, possibly fleeting

and not mutually exclusive! • What’s a website?

– Content written in HTML, delivered via HTTP• What’s a blog?

– A website used as a “web log”, or online diary• What’s a wiki?

– A collaborative web site, usually structured

3 of many

Wiki Spaces

Free for education!

Collaboration

Easy to use

Wiki framework

Content integration

Google Sites

Free!CollaborationEasy to use

Website frameworkContent integration

Blogger

Free!Express yourself

Easy to useBlog framework

Content integration

Important Considerations• How much control do I have over:

– Layout– Design– Permissions– HTML

• Are there money or hidden (ads) costs?• Are there widgets or gadgets?• Can I integrate and syndicate?• Is it too specialised or too general?

Other Ways To Publish

• Streaming video (youtube.com)• Podcasting• Social networking (ning.com)• Build and run your own site

– Hand coding or WYSIWYG?• Publish images (flickr.com)• Contribute to a large wiki (wikipedia.org)• Answer questions (answers.yahoo.com)

What now?1. Decide on a type of site to create

2. Choose a service to use (or DIY!)

3. Use the service to create the site

4. Explore what you can do with your site:1. Layout

2. Structure

3. Design

4. Content

5. Collaborate

Thinking about…

What are the implications of 6 billion publishers?

Licensing• All original work used here is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share

Alike 3.0 Unported license. For more details please look at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/.

• This license has been chosen to permit a high degree of sharing, whilst protecting the author’s control as to how the content is used.

• Please respect this license and use accordingly!• Recycled and borrowed works from other sources are used under appropriate

licenses, which are not affected by this license. The original source is always given. • All original work created by Ross Parker (Sha Tin College, English Schools

Foundation, Hong Kong), except where specified.