Thursday 30 September 2010

Ex. 1: Various Web Authoring and Design terms

HTML
Hypertext Markup Language is the predominant markup language for web pages, it contains markup tags which are opened and closed. Each tag defines an element (e.g. boldness, italic, image file, scrolling text) which gets readen by a web browser and translated into a web page.

Javascript
Javascript is an object-orientated scripting language first introduced in Netscape, it is commonly used to introduce interactive features into a web page. Javascript could f.ex animate if you hover over a picture, pop-up other windows or even validate information that's been entered.

PHP
Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) is an open-source scripting language created to make dynamic web sites. PHP is server-side which means everything happens on the web server rather than the users' computer. PHP can be embedded into an HTML page by using PHP code and HTML output.

Web Authoring Software
Software for creating web pages without too much knowledge on how to code by the use of "What You See Is What You Get". Dreamweaver is an example of a web authoring software which lets you design and create websites in easy steps.

Image Manipulation Software
Software used to alter or improve images. Adobe Photoshop is an expensive image manipulation software which is used for advanced tasks such as adding effects to the image, blurring, colour-correction and other various stuff.

Static Web Page
A static web page is a page which isn't dynamic and stays the same everytime you visit the web page and therefore is easily cached/storable.

Dynamic Web Page
A dynamic web page as opposed to static is interactive and runs every time on the server as the user is viewing  the web page which means it will have new information everytime visitors visit the website.

Web 2.0
Web 2.0 generally refers to the use of a social platform to distribute content since 2004 for people with no specialized knowledge about making web sites.Web 2.0 doesn't have a set definition but it also refers to the move of dynamic web pages rather than static web pages.

Web Accessibility
Web Accessbility refers to making websites usable and available to people with all kinds of abilities and disabilities. All information available on the internet should be accessable by all web users.

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