Websites

Websites

1. Web-Page Concepts

   • Dynamic Web Page
     • Website that has its content linked to a database
   • Database-driven Website
     • Database that use the scripting language SQL to link the database content to the website
   • Interactive Web Page
     • A web page that provides interaction with the user
   • Multimedia Application
     • Websites that contain sound and video as well as text and images
   • Multi-level Navigation
     • A simple website with a small number of pages

2. Software

   • Usability: how intuitive and user-friendly the software is to use
   • Fit for purpose: it's a software if the product is suitable for its intended purpose
   • Efficient: It is not efficient to solve a small problem using a very large program
   • Robust: It's a software if it does not crash easily with unexpected input
   • Maintainable: It's a software if subsequent modifications can be performed easily and quickly to adapt to different circumstances

3. CSS

   • Cascading Style Sheets
   • Used to define the formatting of elements of a web page.
     • (headers, hyperlinks, colour, font, text alignment, size, borders.)

4. Web-Page Structure

   • Hyperlinks: is implemented by specifying the URL of the website and the text to be used to activate the link.
   • Metatags: these tags are put into a web page to provide information about a page that is then used by search engines.

5. Accessibility

   • Physical disabilities that prevent the user from holding or controlling a mouse
   • Physical disabilities that prevent the user from typing or from using a keyboard
   • Users with poor vision
   • Colour-blind users
   • Blind users