2. Answer the questions.
How can you attract people to you website?
Does your audience depend on the type of content?
Why is it advisable to avoid articles that have been reprinted many times before on other websites?
For what purposes you can use website?
Why is it important to interact with readers?
What tips for writing for the web do you know?
What recommendations are given in the text for the winners?
3. Translate into English and make up your own sentences with these words and expressions.
Вставить собственное понимание содержания; авторский символ; перепечатывать; непринужденный (разговорный); снимки; загружать; отклик (ответная реакция); полезность; инкапсулировать; умение в письме; усердно работать; участок памяти; советы; потерять доверие; метод проб и ошибок; просмотреть (просканировать).
4. Discuss how to build a content rich website step by step.
5. Do you have your own website? Speak about it.
TEXT B
Websites That Made YOU A Better Web Developer
1. Read and translate the text B.
Getting Real by 37 Signals
“Getting Real” is a book that’s available online, written by 37 Signals. It’s about creating web-based applications in a productive and successful way. The book covers topics ranging from philosophies that help push out quality products to views on hiring the right people to do the job.
Favorite topics covered in the book are: asking users what they don’t want and dealing with problems only when there is one.
Digg / Technology
Digg is a site where people submit links and vote which content is worthy to be read by its users and which articles don’t deserve the light of day. A large part of my ability to keep up with emerging technologies, techniques, and new standards is because of frequenting Digg’s Technology section. The community is picky of what is good news and bad news, so it allows you to skip the junk and get to the good stuff right away.
Other
social-bookmarking sites that will help you stay sharp and current,
and that should be mentioned here are: StumbleUpon,
deliciou.us,
reddit,
and popurls.
Web Design from Scratch
Web Design from Scratch is a website run by Ben Hunt, that’s about (straight from the front page) “A complete guide to designing web sites that work“. It caters primarily to web builders just starting out, but it’s always good to “go back to the basics” and get a refresher on things that you’ve taken for granted.
The section on Copy Writing teaches that web developers shouldn’t be limited to the coding part or the design part of the project; writing effective copy comes naturally with the experience we’ve had with developing websites that succeed and fail.
Mootools
Mootools is a lightweight framework that simplifies the way you write JavaScript and provides you with powerful AJAX classes, effects, and functions. It’s helped with the development of complex web pages in a rapid and elegant way.
There are other JavaScript frameworks similar to mootools, and you can’t go wrong with any of the popular ones, but a developer’s got to choose his or her favorite – and for you, is the one you’ve come to love and use.
ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb is a long-standing (five years and counting) weblog about web technology news. It caters to web professionals that have a need for knowing what’s up right now. It was founded by Richard MacManus, who also co-founded the Web 2.0 Workgroup – a network of blogs that cover the Web 2.0 generation.
It’s a website that allows you to keep your knowledge up-to-date, and is a source you consistently cite when talking about current web technologies with colleagues and fellow developers.
Zend Developer Zone
This is a website written by some of the PHP core developers and they provide news, articles, tutorials and other stuff related to PHP. If you’re looking for a reliable source of information about PHP, there’s no other place to look than the Zend Developer Zone.
Worth taking a look at is the five-part article series about the x debug extension (here’s the link to Part One: Introducing x debug), which is, as author Cal Evans puts it, “a free and open source Swiss army knife tool for PHP developers”.
css Zen Garden
Css Zen Garden is an eye-opener for newer CSS developers. css Zen Garden explores the power of external style sheets by showcasing a variety of designs contributed by developers throughout the industry.
If you haven’t seen the website before, the concept is: using the same html mark-up, CSS developers submit external style sheets and images to style the web page into beautifully-looking designs.
It’s a great place to inspire you to push your limits and knowledge regarding CSS.
CSSplay: Experiments with Cascading Style Sheets
Another wonderful website about CSS. It features demos of CSS-based solutions such as image galleries, drop shadows, image maps, etc.
The website is authored by a married couple, Stuart (Stu) and Fran Nicholls, who have been in the computer industry since the 1980’s. Most of the demos are (or were) cutting edge; the examples are practical and easy to follow and the website’s easy to navigate.
It’s a commendable resource to check out when you want to gather information about CSS-based solutions.
Webmonkey: The Web Developer’s Resource
Here’s a throw-back to the past! This is here as a reminder to the (slightly) older/more experienced developers that the site is still up and running. It was, during their time, a place to visit and learn about web development, covering topics such as web programming, E-business, and page design. It also has a “Quick Reference” section on the sidebar.
I remember being amazed at how their “folder navigation” on the sidebar worked – ever since then, the functionality can now be achieved quite easily using the DOM and/or a JavaScript framework like mootools.
Meyerweb.com: Eric’s Writing
This is a collection of Eric Meyer’s writings, an accomplished author on the topic of CSS. Not only is he a CSS expert, but also an advocate of semantic code. His work was, and is, truly revolutionary. I attribute my appreciation and understanding of “resetting CSS” to him.
Eric Meyer is one of the key influential people that everybody truly finds to be talented and knowledgeable in the field of web building. His current and previous works are worth the time to read.
The Web Standards Project
The Web Standards Project “fights for standards that reduce the cost and complexity of development while increasing the accessibility and long-term viability of any site published on the Web”.
Whether it’s suggesting correct mark-up or rallying web browser developers to render styles/html a certain way, The Web Standards Project aims to help web developers reduce the amount of time committed to troubleshooting browser-display issues. The website features articles, tutorials, and the Acid3 Browser Test (visual rendering tests of your browser).
Fiftyfoureleven.com
A marvelous website for the modern web developer. The website “is intended to be a resource for web developers: people who design, code and program websites and applications for the web“. The website is part of the 9rules network and is written primarily by Mike Papageorge who chooses to blog about topics such as “Marketing on the Internet” and more specific subjects such as “Olympic Logos“.
Aside from the Web Development Resources sidebar, there’s also a list of the author’s most recent Web Development resources that’s worth a bookmark.
SitePoint
SitePoint is one of the older websites that has survived the constantly-changing tastes of web developers and designers. A co-founder of the website, Matt Mickiewicz, first had a website called Webmaster-Resources.com Community Forums launched in 1999.
The site has found its “second wind” with its young and modern web developer audience with an updated design/user interface, frequent updates, and a new and notable” CSS Reference” section.
So there they are some websites that’s worth checking out and subscribing to if you’re interested in bettering your web development knowledge and skills.