website basics and categories

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Week 6:Website Basicsand Categories

Subject Code: COMP121By: Marlon Jamera

Email: [email protected]

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Website Basics

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Scope of the Lesson

• Website Basics• Website Applications• Website Development Languages• Website Organizations• Website Categories• Commercial Sites• Country Sites• Educational Sites• Organizational Sites

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Learning OutcomesBy the end of the lesson, you will be

familiar and know the website categories and its uses.

• Explain what the website basics are.

• Define and explain perception of each of the website basics.

• Identify and compare dynamics of the different website development languages.

• Describe the features and the aim of each of the categories of a website.

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Website Basics

• What is a website?

• a website is a presentation tool;

• a way to communicate;

• a learning tool;

• a teaching tool;

• a marketing tool.

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Website Basics

• Before we do anything else, we need to

spend time thinking about the 4W’s.

• What is the purpose of the website?

• Who is our target audience?

• What will bring our audience back?

• Where will our audience be using the

website?

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Website Applications

• Client – Side Application

• Application on the WWW that run on the user’s server or computer and are executed by the browser installed on the user’s computer.

• Example: JavaScript scripts are client-side because they are executed by the client’s browser.

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• JavaScript

• A scripting language used to design interactive websites.

• It allows developers to create interactive objects such as pop-up boxes, mouse-over buttons, image maps, animations, and drop-down menus that display on the client-side.

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• Java

• A high-level programming language used to create applications for websites.

• Java applets are programs that are embedded in other applications, typically in a web page displayed in a browser on the client-side.

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• AJAX

• A group of technologies used to create dynamic and interactive web content that loads and updates at a faster rate of speed.

• Technologies combined together include the following: HTML or XHTML, CSS, JavaScript and etc.

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• Server – Side Application

• A web based application that runs on the web or host server.

• ASP, PHP and other technologies can be manipulated by the server side before sending the web page to the client.

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• ASP

• Application Service Provider

• A third party entity that manages and distributes software – based services and solutions to customers across a wide area network from a central data center.

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• CSS

• Cascading Style Sheet

• It is used to format the layout of a web site. They can be used to define web page elements such as text styles and tables.

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• CGI

•Common Gateway Interface

• A specification for transferring information between a World Wide Web server and any program on the client’s computer designed to accept and return data.

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• Database

• A collection of information organized in to records of information so a computer program can quickly access and select desired pieces of data.

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• J-Query

• A free and open source JavaScript library that is used by Web developers to navigate HTML documents, handle events, perform animations and add Ajax interactions to Web pages.

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• Open Source

• A program in which the source code is available to the general public for use and/or modification from its original design free of charge.

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Website DevelopmentLanguages

• Encoding

• Preparing data for storage and transmission by reducing redundancies and complexity.

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• HTML

• Hyper Text Mark-up Language

• The authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web.

• A set of tags are used to mark up plain text so that a browser application knows how to display the text.

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• SGML

• Standard Generalized Mark-up Language

• The Web development language that establishes a standard for defining mark-up languages. HTML is a type of SGML.

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• SQUL

• Structured Query Language

• A standardized query language for requesting information from a database.

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• PHP

• Hypertext Preprocessor

• A widely used, general-purpose scripting language embedded into the HTML source document and used to produce dynamic web pages.

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• XML

• Extensible Mark-up Language

• A common web development language created by W3C. A pared-down version of SGML designed especially for Web documents.

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Website Organizations

• ISO

• International Organization for Standardization

• Sets international standards for computer languages so computers can communicate world-wide.

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Website Organizations

• W3C

• World Wide Web Consortium

• An international consortium of organizations who work together to set standards for the Internet and the Web. The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee.

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Website Designand Development

• A linear website structure connects web pages in a straight line.

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• A hierarchical website structure connects Web pages in a tree-like structure

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• A webbed website structure has no set of organization.

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• A broad website is one in which the home page is the main index page, and all other Web pages are linked individually to the home page.

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• A deep website is one that has many levels of pages, requiring the user to click many times to reach a particular Web page.

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Website Testing

• Usability is the measure of how well a product, such as a Web site, allows a user to accomplish his or her goals.

• Usability Testing is a method by which users of a Web site or other product are asked to perform certain tasks in an effort to measure the product’s ease-of-use and the user’s perception of the experience.

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Website Categories

• Commercial Sites

• E – Commerce Websites.

• Online shopping websites for retail sales direct consumers.

• It gathers and uses demographic data through web contacts and social medias.

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Website Categories

• Commercial Sites

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Website Categories

• Country Sites

• Website that provides information about a specific country.

• Provides information about the culture and heritage, business and investments, visiting and planning.

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Website Categories

• Country Sites

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Website Categories

• Educational Sites

• Website that provides information about a specific school.

• Provides information about the course offered, admission, location, alumni corner and current updates.

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Website Categories

• Educational Sites

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Website Categories

• Government Sites

• Website that provides information about governance.

• It consists of the digital interaction between a citizen and the government at all levels.

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Website Categories

• Government Sites

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Website Categories

• Interactive Sites

• Entertainment websites.

• It is a form of online activity that holds the attention and interest of the audience in a website setting.

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Website Categories

• Interactive Sites

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Website Categories

• Music and Audio Sites

• Online streaming websites.

• It is a form of online streaming that let the audience listen to the most recent music.

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Website Categories

• Music and Audio Sites

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Website Categories

• Organization Sites

• Online charities and non – profit organization

• It is an online entity, such as an institution or association that has a collective goal and is linked to an external environment.

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Website Categories

• Organization Sites

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Let’s call it a day,Thank you!