2Development Techniques. HTML presentation1_2 variant

Learning objective
10.4.2.1 use HTML tags when developing webpages

WYSIWYG: (what you see is what you get) editor or program is one that allows a developer to see what the end result will look like while the interface or document is being created.
Example: Microsoft Front Page, Macromedia Dream Weaver etc.
 
TEXT BASED: Editors that require the developer to enter descriptive codes (or markup ) and do not permit an immediate way to see the results of the markup. 
Note Pad, Note Pad ++ etc.

CMS: A content management system is a software application or set of related programs that are used to create and manage digital content. CMS are typically used for enterprise content management (ECM) and web content management (WCM).
Example: Share point, Joomla, Word Press, Terminal four, Backdrop CMS.

CMS is simply just a pre-built system from which to build a website that includes:

Content Creation
Content Management
Publishing
Presentation

A content management system (CMS) is a system providing a collection of procedures used to manage work flow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual or computer-based.

Top 3 in Order of Community Prominence
1. Wordpress
2. Joomla
3. Drupal

Wordpress
Pros: Best blog platform by far. Easiest to install. Very intuitive to non-techy users. Allows quick posting on pages. Largest user community. Has a WYSIWYG Editor.
Cons: Least developer friendly. More limited options with respect to customization.

Joomla
Pros: Platform is harder than Wordpress but easier than Drupal to develop. Has second largest user base and solid community forums and video tutorials.
Cons: Low usage in the United States relative to Wordpress and Drupal.

Drupal
Pros: Best platform for developers and hand-coders. Custom tweaks are easier. The basic architecture options are very advanced.
Cons: Not as user-friendly for novice developers. Thus, Drupal developers charge more on average and it takes more time to build out.

Simplifies activities such publishing content, revision control, search, indexing, retrieval of content, etc.
Data can be defined as nearly anything: documents, movies, text, pictures, phone numbers, scientific data, and so forth.
Easy to avoid duplicate content.
Frequently used for storing, controlling, revising, semantically enriching, and publishing documentation.
Serves as a central repository, the CMS increases the version level of new updates to an already existing file.

WYSIWYG editors make life easier for your users – especially novices.
Most users don’t know HTML and don’t care to learn.
This allows for ease of editing things like: pages, header tags, text, bold, italics, etc.

Btw, WYSIWYG – “what you see is what you get”

Creating a web page HTML Page Structure

HTML - Hypertext Markup Language, the language used for building web pages.

Web pages are built out of tags. These tags define what is on the page and how it should be structured.

HTML Page Structure

All web pages have the following basic structure:
Head - contains the title of the page
Body - displays the main page content
Title - this places a title on the top of the browser (NOT the top of a web page)