Website Development Project Details Quiz

Internet and World Wide Web

• The Internet is a worldwide collection of computers linked together, developed in the 1960s by the Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
• ARPANET, the original Internet, had only four nodes and sent its first message in 1969.
• The Internet backbone is a collection of high-speed data lines that link major computer systems located around the world.
• An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that has a permanent connection to the Internet backbone.

World Wide Web

• The World Wide Web, also called the web, is a service that provides access to information stored on web servers.
• The web consists of a collection of linked files known as webpages, or pages for short.
• A website is a related collection of webpages created and maintained by an individual or organization.
• Each website contains a home page, which is the main page, and the first document users see when they access the website.
• A link is an element that connects one webpage to another webpage on the same server or to any other web server in the world.

Internet Protocols and Technologies

• Protocol is a set of rules that defines how a client workstation can communicate with a server.
• Server is the host computer that stores resources and files for websites.
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the fundamental protocol used on the web to exchange and transfer webpages.
• Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the ever-growing number of devices connecting to a network.

Website Planning and Development

• Purpose of the website: organization's mission statement.
• Target audience: age, gender, demographics.
• Multiplatform display: Is the website optimized for mobile devices as well as laptops and desktops?
• Site map: How many webpages will be included in the website? How will the webpages be organized?
• Wireframe: What features will be displayed on each webpage?
• Graphics: What graphics will you use on the website?
• Color: To enhance the purpose and brand.
• Typography: What font styles will you use within the website?
• Accessibility: How will the website accommodate people with disabilities?
• Budget: What is the budget for the website?
• Project Timeline: What is the project timeline for the website?

HTML and Web Authoring Tools

• HTML element: everything from the start tag to the end tag, including a paragraph or heading.
• Attributes: additional characteristics, or properties, of the element, includes a name, such as width, and can also include a value, such as 300, which sets the width of an element.
• Text Editors: Notepad++, TextMate, Brackets, Atom.
• ASP (Active Server Pages): a server-side scripting technology.
• The W3C introduced XML in 1998 to exchange and transport data.
• XHTML (Extensible Language): a rewritten version of HTML using XML and was developed in 2000.
• JQuery: a library of JavaScript programs designed for easy integration onto a webpage.
• PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor): an open-source scripting language often used for common tasks such as writing to or querying a database.

Creating a Basic Webpage

• Line 1: the tag for declaring an HTML 5 webpage.
• Line 2: the HTML tag needed to begin an HTML document.
• Line 3: the head tag, which contains the webpage title and other information about the webpage.
• Line 4: the webpage title tags, and.
• Line 5: the meta tag, which contains information about the data on the webpage.
• Lines 7 and 8: the and tags, which include all text, images, links, and other content displayed on the webpage.

Text Color and CSS

• Text color can be specified using color names, HEX values, or RGB values.
• Inline CSS: used to apply a unique style to a single HTML element, uses the style attribute of an HTML element.
• The style attribute is part of the Global Attributes and can be used on any HTML element.
• Hexadecimal colors: specified with #RRGGBB, where RR, GG, and BB are hexadecimal integers between 00 and FF specifying the intensity of the color.
• Examples of text color specification: Violet, Indigo, Yellow, Green, Red, Orange.