Webquest

Cooking for the Online Desinger

Cooking Tip
Planning, planing and plannig. The more you know the road ahead, the faster you will get to your destination. Before even touching the computer, know what is your message to end users and what you want to design. At this point paper and pencil are the most important tools.
 

Relationships

Document Relative Links

These are a type of links are used to point to a web page or a file within the same website. The site relative links are internal and they need to be changed and/or updated if the website’s internal structure is changed.

Global/Absolute Links

Those are the links that fall into the cathegory of complete URL. Global links are used to point to a web page or a file from one website to another one.

They are composed by three key elements:

  • The transfer protocol (http://)
  • The domain name (www.mariabanos.com)
  • And a actual file (main_illustration.jpeg)
Site Relative Links

These links are utilized to point to files that are shared by several pages within the same website, such as common graphic assets or the css style sheet.

These type of links are used to point to a web page or a file within the same website. The site relative links are internal and they need to be changed and/or updated if the website’s internal structure is modified.

Email Links

This the link that lets a user send e-mails. In order to make the browser understand that what the user is clicking is a e-mail link, it will be necessary to use the “a href” tag. However instead to using the typical web address "http://" a mailto: will be used, followed by an e-mail address. That is for the back end of this type of link, because the front end of an e-mail link can be anything, however obscure presentation can lead to unexpected results, so it will be necessary not to make the user think twice to understand that what they are about click is nothing more than a e-mail link.