Approaching Your Final Project, and particularly the "Extraordinary Distinction"

Harvard Extension School  
Fall 2024

Course Web Site: https://cscie12.dce.harvard.edu/

Topics

  1. Extraordinary Distinction - "Extras" for your site
  2. Search and Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
  3. Webpage and Website Optimization
  4. Hosting Your Site
  5. Apache HTTP Server
  6. Caching - Don't deliver content unnecessarily
  7. Minify and Compress Content
  8. Friendly Errors
  9. Friendly Ways to Get There
  10. Getting JSON from HTTP request

Approaching Your Final Project, and particularly the "Extraordinary Distinction", slide1
Extraordinary Distinction - "Extras" for your site, slide2
Search and Search Engine Optimization (SEO), slide3
Content: meta tags, slide4
HTML5 Boilerplate - Louis Lazaris, slide5
SEO - Start with..., slide6
Webpage and Website Optimization, slide7
Core Web Vitals (CWV), slide8
Hosting Your Site, slide9
Web Browser and Web Server, slide10
Domain Name System, slide11
Domain Names: Top Level Domains (TLD), slide12
Getting Your Own Domain and Hosting, slide13
Getting Setup with Dreamhost, slide14
Web Server Software, slide15
HyperText Transfer Protocol, slide16
Looking at HTTP Under the Hood, slide17
Apache HTTP Server, slide18
Apache Configuration Overview, slide19
Scope of .htaccess files, slide20
Problems You Will Have with .htaccess files, slide21
500 Internal Server Error, slide22
Problems You will encounter when using .htaccess files (Internal Server Error 500), slide23
Problems You will encounter when using .htaccess files (Can't see the .htaccess file), slide24
Caching - Don't deliver content unnecessarily, slide25
Caching Related Headers, slide26
Expires HTTP Header, slide27
Do not cache, slide28
Typical Expiration / Cache Directives for Websites, slide29
Minify and Compress Content, slide30
Friendly Errors, slide31
Custom Error Documents, slide32
Friendly Ways to Get There, slide33
HTTP Redirect, slide34
Redirect, slide35
Rewrite, slide36
Example - Make Simple Links Instead of Complex Ones, slide37
Example: Create Links that can always point to the correct place, slide38
My Example Project - .htaccess setting to improve Webpagetest scores!, slide39
Getting JSON from HTTP request, slide40
Let's Try It Out!, slide41

Presentation contains 41 slides