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Website Basics and Categories
This document provides an overview of website basics and categories. It begins by outlining the scope and learning outcomes of the lesson, which are to familiarize students with website categories and their uses. It then defines what a website is and discusses website basics like purpose, audience, and user experience. Various website applications, development languages, and organizations that set standards are described. Finally, the document outlines several categories of websites like commercial, country, educational, and organizational sites.
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Introduction to website fundamentals, including applications, development languages, and categories.
Definition of a website including its roles as a presentation, communication, teaching, and marketing tool. Emphasizes purpose, audience, and engagement.
Details on client-side applications such as JavaScript and AJAX, highlighting interactivity and user experience.
Server-side applications explained, including ASP, PHP, and database integration to enhance web functionality.
Introduction to core web development languages: HTML, SGML, SQL, PHP, and XML for web document structure and data handling.
Description of organizations like ISO and W3C that set standards in web development and communication.
Different website structures: linear, hierarchical, webbed, broad, and deep, explaining their organizational flow.
Introduction to usability measures for websites and testing methods to evaluate user experience.
Overview of commercial websites, e-commerce, demographic data usage, and specific country-related information.
Information specific to educational websites, detailing course offerings and organizational updates.
Explores interactive entertainment websites and music/audio streaming platforms as online mediums.
Discussion of organization sites focusing on non-profits and charities emphasizing their collective goals.
Thanking participants and concluding the presentation on website basics and categories.
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- 1. Z Week 6: Website Basics andCategories Subject Code: COMP121 By: Marlon Jamera Email: [email protected]
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- 3. Z Scope of theLesson • Website Basics • Website Applications • Website Development Languages • Website Organizations • Website Categories • Commercial Sites • Country Sites • Educational Sites • Organizational Sites
- 4. Z Learning Outcomes By theend 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.
- 5. Z Website Basics • Whatis a website? • a website is a presentation tool; • a way to communicate; • a learning tool; • a teaching tool; • a marketing tool.
- 6. Z Website Basics • Beforewe 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?
- 7. Z 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.
- 8. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 9. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 10. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 11. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 12. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 13. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 14. Z Website Applications • CGI •CommonGateway 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.
- 15. Z Website Applications • Database •A collection of information organized in to records of information so a computer program can quickly access and select desired pieces of data.
- 16. Z Website Applications • 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.
- 17. Z Website Applications • OpenSource • 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.
- 18. Z Website Development Languages • Encoding •Preparing data for storage and transmission by reducing redundancies and complexity.
- 19. Z Website Development Languages • 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.
- 20. Z Website Development Languages • 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.
- 21. Z Website Development Languages • SQUL •Structured Query Language • A standardized query language for requesting information from a database.
- 22. Z Website Development Languages • PHP •Hypertext Preprocessor • A widely used, general-purpose scripting language embedded into the HTML source document and used to produce dynamic web pages.
- 23. Z Website Development Languages • XML •Extensible Mark-up Language • A common web development language created by W3C. A pared- down version of SGML designed especially for Web documents.
- 24. Z Website Organizations • ISO •International Organization for Standardization • Sets international standards for computer languages so computers can communicate world-wide.
- 25. Z 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.
- 26. Z Website Design and Development •A linear website structure connects web pages in a straight line.
- 27. Z Website Design and Development •A hierarchical website structure connects Web pages in a tree-like structure
- 28. Z Website Design and Development •A webbed website structure has no set of organization.
- 29. Z Website Design and Development •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.
- 30. Z Website Design and Development •A deep website is one that has many levels of pages, requiring the user to click many times to reach a particular Web page.
- 31. Z Website Testing • Usabilityis 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.
- 32. Z Website Categories • CommercialSites • 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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- 34. Z Website Categories • CountrySites • 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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- 36. Z Website Categories • EducationalSites • 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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- 38. Z Website Categories • GovernmentSites • 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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- 40. Z Website Categories • InteractiveSites • 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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- 42. Z Website Categories • Musicand Audio Sites • Online streaming websites. • It is a form of online streaming that let the audience listen to the most recent music.
- 43. Z Website Categories • Musicand Audio Sites
- 44. Z Website Categories • OrganizationSites • 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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- 46. Z Let’s call ita day, Thank you!