Web Technologies
1. Web site - Place on the web where you can get information
2. Web Application two way interaction application coded
with web technologies
3. Uniform Resource Locator - Uniform Resource Locators, also known as "URL", are internet addresses that can access internet networks which lead to websites. In other words, URL's are used to access Websites.
4. Content - the content is the
information contained on the page. The content is what makes the website.
Content can come in all shapes and forms. From written text, to images, to
videos etc. The soul purpose for a user to visit a website is most likely for
its content.
5. Layout - The way the website is constructed - i.e. 3
column, liquid, fixed, blog, magazine
6. Structure - Elements of the layout - such as header
footer, sidebar, menu
7. Cookies - cookies are data sent to your computer by a web
server that records your actions on a certain web site. also cookies are used
to store passwords, orders and preferences for sites.
8. Servers - A web server is a computer program that
delivers content, such as web pages, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol,
over the World Wide Web. Server can also refer to the computer running the
program.
9. Remote - computers containing website external to that
computer and cant be accessed on the web.
10. Local - Your own connection using a browser to the web
11. File Sharing - file
sharing is where people can share files person to person through the internet
and between local machines.
12. Ecommerce - ecommerce is a business in the online
environment, making money, selling and buy in the virtual economy.
13. VOIP - Voice over Internet Protocol - voip is a web
based communication in which a person clicks an object to request an immediate connection with
another person in real-time either by phone call, Voice-over-Internet-Protocol,
or text.
14. HTML - stands for
the Hyper Text Markup Language. HTML code is the major language of the
Internet's World Wide Web. Web sites and web pages are written in HTML code.
15. XHTML -
(Extensible Hypertext Markup Language) is a family of XML markup
languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup
Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.
16. DHTML - Dynamic
HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used
together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of
a static markup language.
17. JavaScript - JavaScript is an implementation of the
ECMAScript language standard and is typically used to enable programmatic
access to computational objects within a host environment and is used to add
interactivity to websites.
18. Perl - Used often for processing forms
19. PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor - can perform all types
of calculations such as figuring out the date and time. it is also used to
produce dynamic web pages.
20. ASP - Microsoft version of PHP, which is called active
server pages. Classic ASP uses server-side scripting to dynamically produce web
pages that are not affected by the type of browser being used.
21. Java - programming language used to make applications,
web applications and games
22. Client Side Scripting - client side scripting refers to
computer programs that are run by users web browser not a server.
23. Server Side Scripting - Server-side scripting is a web
server technology in which a user's request is fulfilled by running a script
directly on the web server to generate dynamic web pages.
24. Cascading Style Sheets - CSS is a style language used to
describe the look and formatting of a document written in a markup language.
25. FLV - Flash Video format - Flash Video is a container
file format used to deliver video over the Internet using Adobe Flash Player.
26. Canvas - Interactive Element which behaves like flash
within an HTML5 document and allows for dynamic scriptable rendering of 2D shapes
and bitmap images.
Web Design Issues
when creating a website there are certain terms that you need to take in to consideration, such as Aesthetic qualities
, access speed and many others.
Aesthetic qualities is the way the web page looks like the layout, certain features, images and so on.
this has a big influence on the people viewing the website as if they don't like the way it looks they will leave the website.
http://www.sixtiespress.co.uk/
Here is a website that looks horrible and makes you want to leave straight away. this shows if you don't use Aesthetic qualities well people will not look at your website.
also access speed is crucial to the success of websites as if it takes to long for the page to load up people will just close it and find a different website.
here is an example of a website with fast access speed -
http://eyesopen.org.uk/
Web standards
cross browser compliance is necessary as people use different web browsers and if your website does not work on all browser or looks different some people will not have access to it. for example if some one only used internet explorer and the site is made for firefox they will not be able to use the web site.
for example
http://webpagesthatsuck.smugmug.com/Web-Design/Videos/6872802_HL8qNX#!i=1484402287&k=kN8g54N
Image formats
Any images used in a site should fall into the compatible formats category, meaning any other formats will not be viewable in a browser. The compatible formats used mostly are JPEG, GIF and PNG. Any other formats should be avoided as they are incompatible.
An example of a site that failed to use correct image formats would be
Some of the image on the site wouldn't load. The images clearly have not been uploaded in the correct format.
An example of a site that has succeeded in delivering images in their right format would be
The images are very clear and crisp. The loading time wasn't affected. this is a result of uploading images in the correct format.
Normal Fonts
Normal, readable and easy fonts should be used in a website, anything else would be unreadable. Unique and fancy text should be avoided as they give Users a hard time and frustrates them greatly causing them to leave.
Every Website's purpose is to deliver information, this information should be easy to read, with easy Fonts. The Users should browse websites with ease and feel comfortable browsing through pages.
An example of a website with hard to read text would be
The text is hard to leave and is frustrating.
Layout and navigation
with a clear and simple layout users will be able to navigate the web page quickly and more easily. if the layout was complicated and untidy it will be hard to understand what is on the website and where everything is, this will make the site difficult to navigate causing the user to get frustrated causing them to leave the site.
an example of this would be
this website is confusing and has really bad navigation, which is frustrating and will cause people to leave immediately.
an example of a good layout would be
