Michael T Ganschow Green: alrighty then Hello everybody, welcome to the last proper class of the Semester, the actual last class which is on Thursday is an open lab for you guys to ask me questions so i've got just a few things to cover today.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And so, should be a nice short one i've got.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Hopefully answering your fav icon questions I don't know if I have I can't remember if i've gone over favour cons or not this semester so i'll cover them real quick and then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we'll cover where the web is going and where I see your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: What you know of the web and how it will essentially work for you, for the future, but before we do that, let me just go over how I want you to put up your project force now, this should be a little bit of a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: little bit of a review for you guys considering you've all done your project tues and project recently well but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It never hurts to review a little bit so i'm just a couple of class announcements as well, before I start into that one all of you are non project for stuff that you haven't handed in yet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All of that is due Thursday night project for is due Friday night, and I will be grading it over the weekend.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because I have to have grades into the Department of Monday, so I have to upgrades in by Monday so i'll be grading everything over the weekend so make sure you have your project fours done and up and going by Friday at midnight now um I know a lot of you are perfectionists.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And if it's not to your satisfaction, you don't want to turn it in, but I just want you to know that something is better than nothing, every every semester, I have a student who is doing either really well, or at least decently in the class and they completely completely.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Either, for whatever reason, failed to turn in anything for their last project and it absolutely destroys their grades so For those of you who are who are doing, you know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: pretty much anywhere from all right to great please, please turn in your last project, something is better than nothing, some points are better than no points.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm probably going to fall on deaf ears, will have it happen again, this semester it's it's really sad when it does happen, but just turn in every God by Friday at midnight Okay, I promise you some points is always better than no points Okay, so I just want to make sure that happens.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and
Michael T Ganschow Green: I am going to i'm going to ask you guys to post your project ones project lunch project force to the project for some forum um but i'm going to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: calling an audible and i'm not going to have you guys do feedback critiques for those if you would like to you want to anybody who does feedback critiques I will consider it for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A little a few extra points, basically, but so if you want to do some feedback critiques cool but i'm not going to require it, I will require you to post your project.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To the project for sub form but i'm not going to require feedback critiques largely because I don't really want to spend the weekend writing 30 feedback with each either.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So um so just post your stuff and in that and that'll be good if you want to do feedback there's some cool you want to call out awesome go for it i'll consider it for extra points but don't.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But you're not required to do feedback critiques on the finals on these just get just because I hadn't brought up can be pretty frank did this week so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That is the class announcements, let me just go over real quick how I want you to put your project for up and then we're going to talk five cons, now that that should be fun everybody likes pfaff con.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we'll talk a little where the web is going i've done seo i've done hosting i've done just about everything so let's finish this bad boy off alright so let's do some hot screen sharing here Hello share some screen action, yes i'm quite all right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: My talker over here so it's not so it's not in the way there it is alright so project for i've got a little project for root folder here.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That i've got all set up and ready to go it's it's yes it's a duplicate of my class files, I know I know but don't worry it's it's it's it's good alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As you guys remember in fact we're gonna we're gonna throw out that one we don't want any stinking competition here in Detroit.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Are you sure, yes, I am so working graphics so once you take your working graphics folder and I want you to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: zip it up we're going to go to compress it would go and call this work and rafi P for and in consigned to work and graphics folder and when all of your preliminary work and all of your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know your site needs and goals analysis, you know all of that fun stuff that all goes and you're working graphics folder so that I might look and see what you have done.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then you throw out your existing working graphics folder actually I take it back before you throw away your existing written graphics folder make sure that this is a duplicate.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of your real project for folder so you don't accidentally throw anyone working graphics folder because that would be embarrassing so i'm going to toss working graphics folder in the trash here I mean I got the working graphics folder zipped up so that does a couple of things, one that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That make sure that any links that appointed into the working graphics folder are broken, so you can automatically tell if you've got anything.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In the working graphics folder that might be an issue that's a good way to tell and to shrink it down a little bit to make it easier to load up and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can find the ftp software of your choice and come over to the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: homepage and go grab the student ftp information, of which I have never bothered to memorize this semester, because well that's why I have it as a handout I put my memory on the web people I put my memory on the web, all my pdfs This is my brain i've left my brain for you guys to examine.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For better for worse, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's fire open file zilla and let's do some students ftp alright so we've got host information there is I host GR C 175 dot net firms COM.
Michael T Ganschow Green: click on this guy screwed him opposed us would go and then the username is of course GR C 175 dash student.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Ching because this will send you into the student folder but pop and then Lastly, we got a password exclamation points spring with a capital S 21 is in two one and then GR C 175 there is your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: password Bam let's see if files ella fields are connecting today yeah does excellent so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm going to go to my folder my little Michael Gantt chart green student folder that already finished should have a couple of whoa look at that there's a project three in there.
Michael T Ganschow Green: ooh let's do a project for shall we i'm going to call it project for mtg G GG.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then we're going to put that project for online next to my project three sitting loose leaf with my project too.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So that when people go to the Michael ganja green folder they will see all of my project to beauty and then and then i've got my project to homepage linked into project three and project for so that when people go to your your student folder and find your little.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Baby portfolio site effectively then click on buttons and it will take them to all sorts of pretty places so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That is how I want you to put up your project floor there's nothing new want to compare to how you put up your project three.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically Jay it's just another folder sitting in your student route fold so do we have where's the chat do we have questions either verbal or chat on how I want you guys to put up your project for.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is fairly unsurprising stuff truth be told, and i'll DEMO it again before the open lab next class as well just to make sure that everyone gets a chance and is on the same age.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright well i'm assuming by the definitely silence that nobody has any questions on how I would like you to put up your project for excellent good um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's exactly the same as you put up your project three there's no differences it's only a little different than how you put up your project to so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You should be good um so I got over the last few days i've gotten a bunch of questions about.
Michael T Ganschow Green: favour cons, although some of you didn't know that's exactly what they were called but nevertheless that's what you asked me about so the fav icon is this little icon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That shows up in the browser window either over here next to the URL or next year page title in the tab and it's a nice little way to to add that last little.
Michael T Ganschow Green: kiss of professionalism to your website I don't know if we've gone over them or not judging by the number of questions i'm going to wager we didn't so because of that, I am going to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Show you guys how to make a fav icon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So favour cons are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Relative relatively straightforward to make there's a million pfaff con generators, you can you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: smoke in favour cons.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You can I mean there's a million million ways to make them but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Every pfaff con starts with a little square file so i'm going to go i'm going to open i'm going to go find my guys over here i'm going to find my.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Class folder here and i'm going to grab something out of I don't know if i'll do it out of my images or out of the working graphics i'm not sure I think.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see here, I think, will make a faff con out of hideous photorealistic stitch here because that's not you know what friends do with your fav icon so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm going to fire my photoshop up I forgot to pre fire for the class, so we all get to watch photoshop lunch together whoo here we go so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All right, do you do to do it's verified.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Verification whoo yes, yes, computer, this is not a cracked check version of photoshop This is in fact an adobe CC photoshop I know I know I know you know my history, I know my history, I know, but nevertheless there it is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Listen it's not listen when I can open this up and have everything all the menus are going to be in Farsi we're good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So there it goes okay so it's checked it apparently to its own deliberation so sorry about this guy's I thought I forgot to launch.
Michael T Ganschow Green: photoshop before the class started so i'm basically with fat, because what you gotta do is, you have to make sure that whatever image you use for your fav icon is square if the image is not square you basically have to crop it so that it is because fav cons are.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically, these little teeny tiny squares appear next to the next to the browser tabs they're also used to make icons on the phone so like if you bookmark a website to like your you know, one of your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: home screens on your phone that little thing that comes in that's that's actually done off an icon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: up here we go alright so let's see here let's go hideous photorealistic stitch here oh he's already there look at that high hideous photorealistic stitch how are you good good excellent excellent cool cool alright, so what we're going to do is we.
Michael T Ganschow Green: will now Mr shift key are going to crop a nice square out of stitch right there how about his nose, or whoever, you want angry I, I think that looks good.
Michael T Ganschow Green: there's a stitch fabric on if I ever saw one to Nice decent size look at him he's so angry alright so once you have your little square graphics set up and ready to go i'm going to do a save as.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we'll save this I said on my computer please Thank you up up up up up on will say this is my working graphics so we're going to go work in graphic.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we're going to save we're going to call this guy pfaff con pfaff con.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Instead of maybe a ping I think i'll save him as a jpeg.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just some nice, the same as pink's to it depends on the fabric on generator I prefer as universal as possible for that yeah we may save then we mash okay and there, he is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Here we go alright, so we got that jpg all set and ready to go look at him i'm just kinda kinda kind of doing in there, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's make us a fav icon yeah so when you go to Google chrome and i'm going to do the usual search FAB a con generator because there's a million of them.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Were mine runaway to I have one of my favorite favorite what's broken oh you broke it broke it dynamic Dr you broke my fav icon general oh there it is cool so dynamic Dr is apparently having CSS problems today fantastic wow it looks really professional.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And they have a fan of con generator here that's very good that i've used on a lot of things, but if we're not feeling like using that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Lou You can check your fav icon.
Michael T Ganschow Green: BA BA BA BA BA alright select your fav icon image alright so let's see what this pfaff con generator does i've actually never used this one there's a million of these things out there, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is called real fav icon generator.net so I put mine in and then i'll put in this real fabric on generator and pfaff con dash generator there's a bunch of these right.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know.
Michael T Ganschow Green: boop boop boop boop alright so we'll use i'll put in mind i've used dynamic drive for a million years but they're a little sick today, I think.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So we got to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: We got we got to call an audible there's dynamic drive and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: we'll we'll use try this guy see it works million of these suckers alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The Africans are a unique file format called a Doc ic O or dot icon file and it done ICO is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's kinda like a file files it holds several different variations of your file and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By the way, browsers read it browsers will go through the dot ICO file and look for the closest sized picture to the one they're looking for so, for example.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If it needs a tiny one you know it's seeing up in the tab it will go find the smallest.
Michael T Ganschow Green: version of the icon graphic in the tab if it needs a bigger one, like, for you know favorites like these, or like the bigger ones and safari or things like that it will go it'll go and get steadily bigger images if they exist, out of your out of the fabric con ICO file so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go generate some faff con stuff all right, where we're going to go JRC 175 we're going to go into work and graphics and there's my fav icon it's a jpeg generate me a fav icon will you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Look at that look at that test unstitch yay yay look at that very, very good and that's what it looks like when it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: ios very, very good and what looks like somebody somebody is bookmark the websites of basically functions are going to have very nice oh my God I can't even all yeah there we go and put it windows sweet when there it is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: What it looks like it's like a miniaturized safari tab sweet.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see I will place fav icon files at the root of my website recommended, I cannot or do not want to place fav icon files at through to my website instead I would place them here, no I want that let's see what else we got.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Old pfaff con.
Michael T Ganschow Green: When your website is not new, you can be a problem.
Michael T Ganschow Green: workaround depend version, the fav icon URLs is query now refresh it it'll pop in eventually.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yep compression compressors them they're going to scale it down.
Michael T Ganschow Green: No APP name nope.
Michael T Ganschow Green: No well, let them let the users generated read me generate html code now we're going to go, give me a give me some fav icon here isn't regular FAB of cons we're going to stick them in our in our main header here alright so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's see it is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: chewing on it there goes there's the fav icon package I don't need all of these rather.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If you already have a FAB calm installed, you can download the pfaff con package and upload it, which is what I am going to do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Or you can.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Put the you can put the the linking structure in there as well, um let's see check your fav icon and you can monitor your website okay so i'm just going to download my fav icon gimme let's see here alright so let's see this fabric con package dot zip here and see what we have downloads.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's go download a con package zip open me up yeah let's see we got we got an all sorts of different things excellent excellent excellent excellent when xml file to what are you trying to do to me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's open that up high dreamweaver, why are you opening up an xml and illustrator hey hey now hey hey xml files and not for illustrator computer, what are your idea.
Michael T Ganschow Green: hang on we're going to open up this up, why did you why do you have illustrator open with not illustrator open with dreamweaver change the default on that thing illustrator xml file good God to do to do to do Oh, I see.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The browser config xml is necessary if you want your fav icon to show up as a windows tile excellent I don't really care about that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm just going to grab the fav icon ICO and throw it in mind, because that's all I care about if you care about all the others, you can of course.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Use the fad the linkage where's my linkage, you can use the linkage here, to put it in, but I am ICO file so i'm going to go in and start throwing it around at high illustrator yes text cancel I don't want you to open a damn xml file loony alright so let's see here let's pop this open.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't have my notes device here so we're going to stop here real quick, while I go get my master ftp haha and then we're gonna get in.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we are going to have a good time I demanded.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Then the POP this back up and we're going to go into the main i'ma show you where to put your fav icon so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: paste that.
Michael T Ganschow Green: That work you don't make the sounds you guys I know you're just listening along when you stare at a blank screen, I know I know don't worry Joe worry this a bit better.
Michael T Ganschow Green: connection in a new tab yep okay so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to get your family kind of work, you can do a couple of things, so let me return the screen sharing so not talk to you guys are watching a blank screen like gambling okay so um.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You have a few options and you found a con if you want to put it up, you want all the fancy versions, to put up you want to grab all these links, right here and throw that in your head tag.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm now all of these links are nice because they have a draft of where the images or web manifest or xml file are so, in theory, you could throw it all in your images folder and set those links to your images folder if you would like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And that doesn't matter to you, though.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Any of the fancy stuff all you really need to make a fav icon work.
Michael T Ganschow Green: By to make a faff con work yes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This little fabric con dot ICO file.
Michael T Ganschow Green: At all you want to do is just throw him in your main directory with your html so I believe I already have a fav icon in here, yes, there is there's my fav icon ICO so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I am going to dump in the new fav icon ICO I believe I also have a link to it to hang on real quick well The thing is, loading we're going to go here and we're going to go view source control.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You paid source, thank you very much.
Michael T Ganschow Green: See you have a fairly common link anymore I don't even know if I do.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I don't I don't even have a FAB comm link anymore sweet yeah you don't necessarily have to have them if you have a dot ICO file.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just regular done ICO file and you throw it in your main directory after about a day or so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: browsers have pick up on it and they'll just display it next to your image tab right there now if you got any of the more the fancy secret sauce stuff well then, you might you might ought to sort of kind of have to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: have to provide those links and put those five accounts, where you want to, but if you're feeling lazy just grabbed that down ICO file lobbing into the main directory here and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: come here, friends and we go as soon as I hit refresh notice my fav icon appear.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As automatically updated we're going to refresh again here notice again my fav icon appear is automatically updated two stitches face.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Look at that so i'm going to do is make sure that dot ICO file in the main directory and congratulations son, you have a fan of con buya.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Look at that fabric on time Bam I haven't read it on the floor and look he's right there looking at us look at that look at that pfaff con madness so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: For those of you who are watching the pre recording or For those of you who are here, live, do you have any questions about five cons, that is what they are all about you have any questions on that.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's talk a little let's let's since you guys don't seem to have faff con questions anybody who's watching this pre recorded at pfaff con questions you know where to find me.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, so let's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: let's wind this down a little bit here, then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So, like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: where's the Web going where's it go.
Michael T Ganschow Green: What what, in your estimation, is where it's going well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The web is going to continue to get more and more mobile, I mean the mobile web is already here we just recently tipped over the majority of web traffic is now on mobile devices.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's been that way for years in the Third World country because everybody got a mobile phone, but not necessarily everybody had a computer in the in some poor countries, so the mobile Internet really took off.
Michael T Ganschow Green: There quite a while ago, but the first world has been catching up, and now we have we have we're so phone saturated that a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: slim majority, I want to say it's like 55% or more, maybe more now a web traffic is coming from mobile devices so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Design with phones in mind is going to become much more important as time goes on, I think you can already kind of seen that in a lot of websites, because a lot of websites are essentially stovepipes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Basically strata that run on a single column, a lot of people are going away from multi column designs, to make it easier for websites to interact with mobile devices.
Michael T Ganschow Green: responsive design will not be an option, you will have to build your website responsive, so I train you guys in it and it's going to be.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In fact it'll be I mean you're talking about having to build responsive.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The devices that are going to be displaying the web, are going to continue to proliferate I mean I mean there's already comedic amounts of devices for displaying the web, you know you're going to web browser on your friggin refrigerator.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Every every year at CES when they do the consumer electronics show for the last few years, as all as.
Michael T Ganschow Green: dryers where you've got the laundry turning and there's a screen in the back of the in the back of the dryer and you're watching you can you can do things in the air well that well that, while you're flipping.
Michael T Ganschow Green: One of these days, a smartwatch is going to sprout a web browser and we're all going to cry ourselves to sleep.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The you're going to I mean picture designing website that is 144 pixels wide picture picture you guys picture right now right now close your eyes and picture trying to design 144 pixel website, good luck.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Because that's what's coming so you're going to have I mean if you already don't think you have a lot of control over where your website is viewed and how and why, and when.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All you're going to have less control as time goes on, I mean the control is only going to get less and less and less and less and less as the Web gui goes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: From the back end perspective, I think you guys are going to wind up dealing a quite a bit with what are called content managed systems were cms content management systems.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And those are applications that you install on your server and they basically generate websites from databases so essentially your website, instead of being a set of static html is based on the users input and the content desired is dynamically assembled and served up.
Michael T Ganschow Green: To the users, the real power of content management systems comes on because, once you get it set up and running.
Michael T Ganschow Green: They have these things, called dashboards which are basically an area where you can log in and go and maintain.
Michael T Ganschow Green: A website and it looks very similar to like a word processor of log and so pretty much anybody can maintain a website once it's up and running with cms systems.
Michael T Ganschow Green: It takes a little more to get them up and running, you have to set up a database on your server not hard.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And then you have to install whatever cms application is using run it and then hook, the two of them up, and then they go into bouncing baby websites now what does this mean for design and development well cms based websites.
Michael T Ganschow Green: still use CSS to drive their their appearance they'll be using CSS forever because CSS is the universal Web.
Michael T Ganschow Green: appearance programming language web Apps which are hardly websites use CSS to drive their their appearance, so all your CSS knowledge going to continue along very nicely.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your html knowledge will still be worth quite a bit as well, because the the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The websites are essentially built out of a series of html fragments so knowing how html works and how it is applied will help you go through the fragments and modify them and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i'm as you work more and more with cms website you're going to find yourself working more and more with databases, do not be afraid of databases, people are so afraid of databases on the web.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Modern server control panels make them really easy to maintain and if you actually have to use a database like if you actually have to.
Michael T Ganschow Green: go in and like modify the raw database guess what would a database is a real it's a spreadsheet it's literally an excel spreadsheet sitting on the web that's it rose columns sounds everything you know from your high school.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Software classes, where they taught you how to use excel yes, yes, what you didn't think you'd have to know that, because you're a pretty archie creative type right well.
Michael T Ganschow Green: You know web design guys know it, because that is what a database is is all it is is it's a spreadsheet online that you get to play with now.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The language I have not taught you guys that most cms has run on, and you will find that you have to learn is a language called P HP.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And php is very interesting programming language, because it blends it's a blend of a markup language like html or like xml bracket word bracket bracket closing slash word bracket.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And a querying language so you frequently see in php something like bracket question mark word question mark bracket and basically what what php is doing is it's constantly asking your database questions going to your excel spreadsheet and going so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: yeah if if by chance you wanted to display a page that told this person over here about the company that owns our website, what would you display.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And the database crumbles and says okay Well, first of all i'd show them this content area.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's got all the main text in it and then i'd show them this lovely image slider that's rotating images and then I show them this and the php goes oh excellent and you link to those things and shows them to the to the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: User so php is an interesting language most common content management systems are driven by it, so if you learn it you'll be you'll be set it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's it's another level more difficult to learn html and CSS though because it's got a lot of moving parts and it can do a lot of different things very powerful.
Michael T Ganschow Green: um if you guys want to play with content management systems, the cheapest freest one is absolutely free and it is called wordpress you might have heard of wordpress but you probably heard of wordpress.com wordpress.com is a.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is a template builder service like weebly like Wicks like those guys know the wordpress you're going to be playing with wordpress.org wordpress.org is the nonprofit flavor of wordpress basically what you do is you make sure your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: server can run wordpress and can run the newest date the newest database program called my sequel and why sql.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And if it can then you make a database you install wordpress as files and then you go into the wordpress files and you hook them up to that database and boom, all of a sudden, it is a bouncing baby website it's free So if you want to play around with it you're not going to lose anything.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I recommend if you get your own hosting to make a little folder in your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In your main directory and install wordpress in it to have a little wordpress to play in a little kind of bucket of water with a bunch of fish swimming in it, so you can play around wordpress because wordpress is a great.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Content management system learning tool it's used for a variety of websites all levels, it is very, very powerful it basically started its life as a blogging software and then.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But it was released as open source so programmers developers and designers got together and essentially rebuilt, the thing to Dr websites as a content management system.
Michael T Ganschow Green: very, very powerful really, really fun to use to i'm a big fan of wordpress we use it for a lot of things Okay, a lot of things and and it is used pretty much all levels of.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Professional web design like basically except for the bleeding edge custom stuff like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: amazon's not going to run them wordpress they have their own entire back end application driving this thing eBay not going to run in wordpress but the next level below those guys probably running on wordpress so any level of pretty much.
Michael T Ganschow Green: pretty much large all the way down website will be running on on wordpress or something very similar so it's all it's a wordpress is always fun to learn and i'm of course happy to answer wordpress questions if you guys start playing around with them because they're because it's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As long as you're not afraid to install a database and monkey around in a programming language you might not necessarily know a couple of php files wordpress is.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Is super easy to hook up and install if you're a little bit brave it's also very difficult to break, which is nice once you get it going really, really, really, really good so.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your html and CSS skills that you have your file exporting skills that you have your page layout skills that you have will absolutely support you, no matter where the Web grows.
Michael T Ganschow Green: The reason why I showed you guys programming languages, rather than software's as much as possible is because I wanted to future proof you.
Michael T Ganschow Green: As much as possible, so you guys now know the raw languages, but you don't maybe necessarily know any software is associated with it, you don't know any of the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Language pre processors, which is another thing you may run across later on down the road but that's okay that's Okay, because what i've built for you guys as a solid base a solid foundation of knowing html CSS and a teeny tiny bit of jquery.
Michael T Ganschow Green: In order to get you going get you started this kind of a starter Pack.
Michael T Ganschow Green: of knowledge, have given you the starter pack so that wherever your web career takes you, you have this little starter pack to start you, and then you can start adding skills to it as time goes on, I want to make sure you guys are as future proofed as possible.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Anybody have any questions on where the web is going.
Michael T Ganschow Green: But anything i've gone over today.
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Michael T Ganschow Green: Alright, then you guys.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This concludes GR C 175 for the spring 2021 Semester, the class is done remainder of class today, as well as class on Thursday.
Michael T Ganschow Green: are going to be open labs for you to ask me questions, otherwise i'm done in formalized imparting knowledge and likely will still be imparting knowledge in the form of answered questions but.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is the end of my lectures the end my friend my only friend the end so it has been a real pleasure, having you guys in class your.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Your projects have been really cool to see grow I really liked your design sensibilities, I like a lot of you figured out the great web design hack which is simple layout with really cool imagery I like.
Michael T Ganschow Green: All of the directions you're taking these things i've been really inspired by what you're doing with the various projects, and I am so looking forward to seeing your project ford's.
Michael T Ganschow Green: i've already seen some of them you people keep sending me your project boards and and asking about things and sending me your weird instructor bios and all of that and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And I really liking what i'm seeing you guys have been one of the really outstanding classes i've i've had teaching this thing and I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: I I cannot communicate enough how much I appreciate you guys and appreciate the effort you have given to this.
Michael T Ganschow Green: it's not easy, I floor knows I know it's not easy, but it is, but you guys have really gone above and beyond, and I really appreciate that this is this has been one of the best classes i've taught.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and probably the best.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Remote class i've taught, I would say.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Hopefully there'll be enough seats next semester, that they can teach to 75 physically and i'll be able to meet some of you actually.
Michael T Ganschow Green: If not we'll be doing this again next semester, because there are enough for you here there's like 38 you here, well, I think, I think, even with attrition there's still like 2324 of you that they're going to run a 275 in the fall, which is nuts.
Michael T Ganschow Green: So, because usually runs every two semesters, so I think there's enough of you to run it to 75 in the fall if any of you would like to come join me so that being said, thank you for everything you've done for me, I look forward to seeing your project threes.
Michael T Ganschow Green: This is this is this has been a really good one you guys and I really hope to that this is not the last I hope to see you guys in other my classes and I hope you take these web tools and go out and.
Michael T Ganschow Green: and
Michael T Ganschow Green: Just really enjoying yourself go out and build and build something cool and when you build something cool send it to me, I was like seeing what my students are up to you out there cool.
Michael T Ganschow Green: Well, that being said, I am going to stop the.
Michael T Ganschow Green: screen share actually pause it in case there's anything that I think I need to go over when answering questions I.
Michael T Ganschow Green: And we're going to pause we're going to we're going to stop the screen share we're going to pause the recording pre recorded people it's been an honor by.