Using Buttons to Link to your Other Pages

Watch the screencast below which shows you how to add links to your buttons so that you can click to another page of your website.

Notice that I have used my home page as a template for my other pages so that it doesn't take a long time to set it all up again.

This lesson, try to create seperate files for all of your pages using your home page as a template. For instance, for my website, I need:

• Homepage
• Movies Page
• Apps Page
• TV Shows Page

HANDY TIP 1: Change the title of your page on Dreamweaver and then click 'Save As' to save it as a seperate file in your 'mywebsite' folder.

 

Using Dreamweaver to Create your Own Website

We will be using a program called Dreamweaver to create our own website. For the information and tutorial sheets, go to the following folders

W:\Professional Studies\Professional Studies\CIPS\ICT\KS3\Autumn\Year 8 Autumn 2_2013-2014\Dreamweaver

Please follow these steps before you open Dreamweaver:

1. Create a new folder in your documents and call it mywebsite (notice that I have not used capital letters and there is no space between the two words)
2. In your mywebsite folder, create another folder called images

HANDY TIP 1: All of your pages and images must be saved in these folders when you complete work on Dreamweaver otherwise, they will not appear.

Now open Dreamweaver by going to All Programs\CS3 Master Collection\Adobe Dreamweaver CS3

Now, you need to follow the detailed instructions on the PDF file to start building your own website. Please remember to have a homepage that links to other pages that you are going to build. Your homepage should include the name of the website, a description of the website and provide links to other pages (your own pages are called 'internal links' pages on the internet are called 'external links').

HANDY TIP 2: Make sure that you get the layout exactly how you want it before making other pages. This is because you can use your homepage as a template for your other pages.

Here are some good 'buttons' to include on your homepage that you will be able to click to link to your other pages (or you can find / make your own):

 

Work for Friday 28th June

Now that you have completed a time line on Fakebook, you should now produce a PowerPoint or Prezi   on the life of that person. All important landmarks in their life should be recorded. You should also include pictures of their inventions throughout the years.

When you write about their inventions, include details on new technologies that were included and new features that their designs offered. You could also include details of prices and how many items have been sold.

Fakebook Profiles

 

Continue with your Fakebook profiles but be sure to include the following:

• Videos or images from important dates in that person's life (eg the introduction of the first iPad)
• Ensure that the dates are correct on the timeline
• Include comments from 'friends' on your posts (Bill Gates may wish to mock the efforts of Steve Jobs and tell him why his products are better)

If Fakebook website is not working (or you cannot save your work on these computers) complete the timeline that you started on PowerPoint/PowToon and continue with your timelines on Friday.

Create a Timeline

I'd like you to create a timeline for one of the following:

• Games Consoles
• Mobile Phones
• Home Computers

At first I would like you to complete a basic timeline using Word or PowerPoint. Here's a good one on Games Consoles:

Then I'd like you to be a bit more ambitious and use PowToon to create a timeline story about the device you have chosen. This should include the following information:

• Dates
• Images
• New Features

Design an App

In groups of 2 or 3 you have two lessons to prepare a presentation on an app that you wish to design. You will present your design to the class on Wednesday 8th May and should prepare a PowerPoint that explains the following:

• Name of app
• Blurb for the App Store
• A full list of features
• Explanation of integration with social media and other websites
• Target Audience
• Why your app is different to anything else available/better than similar apps
• Images and screenshots
• Pricing

Use the notes section on PowerPoint to write what you are going to say (or Microsoft Word) rather than fill your PowerPoint presentation with too much text.

How to use AppShed to create your own Apps...

Use this link to take you to the AppShed website where you will begin to learn the skills required to design your own app.

 

For the next 2 lessons you should work your way through the list of skills below. You can use the video tutorials on the shared area if you get stuck, which can be found here:

 

W:\Professional Studies\Professional Studies\CIPS\ICT\KS3\Year 8 Summer 1\Tutorial\Basics

 

If you have headphones, you can use them to listen to the videos too.

 

Create a login (using your school email address) then learn how to:

1.       Uploading images

2.       Creating a new app

3.       Edit the screen title

4.       Edit the tab name

5.       Create a new tab

6.       Create tab on a tab (More tab video 6)

7.       Create maps and gallery tabs

8.       Create a home screen

9.       Change the screen type

10.   Add image links

11.   Delete items

12.   Add image and text items

13.   Work with maps

14.   Work with PDF files

15.   Customise the background

16.   Change the text appearance

17.   Work with email, Facebook, Twitter and phone actions

18.   Insert RSS feeds

Who uses Mobile Apps?

Today you are going to add to the PowerPoint presentation that you started on Wednesday by completing the following tasks:

  1. Find different Apps that can be used:

In schools

By teachers

By students

By different professionals (choose a profession and find an App that can be useful)

At home

Entertainment

        2. Where can you find reviews of apps before you download them?

      3. Predict what a mobile device might look like in 10 years time (including new technologies and features)

New Project: Apps & Mobile Devices

This half-term we are working on apps and mobile devices. By the end of the term we should be designing our own apps! However, to begin with, we need to understand a little more about app and the devices that make use of them Click on the link to add your ideas HERE (or click on the wall below). Add your name and sensible answers:

Created with Padlet

 

 

Now we have discussed apps and mobile devices, you must prepare a brief PowerPoint presentation which answers the questions on the Prezi.