MHS web design directory

Class Thursday, January 14, 2016

 Today’s goals:

  • Finish making final revisions to your webpage if necessary
  • Look at work done by previous classes that’s published online
  • Learn about web hosting and domain registration

 Today’s featured website(s):

  • http://oldweb.today/– See what the internet looked like when I was in high school!
  • http://supbowie.com/– (This is from yesterday since we never looked at it)- What was David Bowie doing at your age?

 Previous student work online

  • This is our directory on the Medford Public Schools webpage.
  • What do you notice about the link? What about the page itself?

 Web hosting and domain registration

  • 1. What is a web host? 2. Why do you need one?
  • 3. What is a domain? 4. How do you register one? 5. What is the difference between domain registration and web hosting?
  • 6. How else can you get your website online?
  • Let’s practice by uploading a page now
  • Great resources to review web hosts- http://www.hosting-review.com/ and http://hostingreviews.io/
  • Did you know you can look up web hosting information for any site?