Web Technology Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards based on web technology lecture notes.

Internet

A global network of networks that enables computers to communicate and share services.

Internet

Millions of computer networks connected to each other via the Internet Backbone.

Internet Backbone

An infrastructure of fiber optics cable owned by private companies.

Intranet

A private network accessible only to an organization's staff.

Web Technology

The process of communication between two computers using a Markup language and different multimedia packages.

Web Page

A web document written in HTML (hypertext markup language).

Client

User's device (browser) requesting a resource.

Server

Host machine delivering the requested resource.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

Unique address of a document or a resource on the internet.

WWW (World Wide Web)

A collection of information (webpages, multimedia) accessible via the internet using web browsers.

Web Browser

Application software to explore www (World Wide Web).

Web Server

A program which processes the network requests of the users and serves them with files that create web pages.

Web Page

A digital document that is linked to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet has a web browser.

Web Development

Refers to the building, creating, and maintaining of websites.

HTTP Protocol

Stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol.

URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)

Addresses used to access resources on the web.

Front-end Web Development

Responsible for the look and feel of a website.

Back-end Web Development

Responsible for building and maintaining the code that runs a website.

Website

Webpage or more which are linked together under a certain name.

Web Page

Document has an electronic content published at the internet and displayed through browser.

Home Page

The first page on the web site, through it you can navigate to all web pages.

Hyperlink

Text or picture when click on it transmit you to another place.

Static Web Page

Pre-made content, this content remains constant.

Dynamic Web Page

Also called interactive page which is a page that displays the content allows users to interact with and process it.

Static Web Pages

Content is fixed and does not change without manual editing.

Dynamic Web Pages

Content changes based on user interactions, database updates, or server-side processing.

HTML

How every site on the web is organized.

CSS

How developers add styling and effects to a website.

HTML5

The latest HTML specification.

JavaScript

A supplementary tool to make web pages more interactive , is now the most ubiquitous client-side technology.

Frameworks

Libraries of pre-written code with a pre-imposed structure that a back-end developer can use according to the requirements and needs.

Programming Language

A superset of scripting languages like Ruby, Java, Python, PHP, Perl, Erlang, and Node.js which can be used to write instructions for execution.

Web Servers

Computer programs that store, process and deliver web pages to the users.

Database Management System (DBMS)

A collection of programs that enables its users to access a database, manipulate, interpret and represent data.

Web 2.0

Marked by interactivity and user-generated content.

Web 3.0 (Emerging)

Focus on decentralization, semantic data, and AI-driven services.

Web 1.0

Static and read-only webpages.

HTML

A coding language used to create the static websites which are displayed by internet browsers.

HTML

Markup language that is used by the browser to manipulate text, images, and other content to display it in the required format.

Dir attribute

Used to change the page direction Left to Right or Right to Left

HTML Style Attribute

Used to add styles to an element, such as color, font, size, and more.

rgb values

Express colors in terms of how much red, green and blue are used to make it up.

hex codes

Six-digit codes that represent the amount of red, green and blue in a color, preceded by a pound or hash # sign.

color names

147 predefined color names that are recognized by browsers.

Background property

Used to change the background image of the webpage page.

element

Used to create a table.

tag

Indicates the start of each row.

element

Used to represent the heading for either a column or a row.

The element is used just like the element, but its purpose is to represent the heading for either a column or a row.

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)

Used to create the static websites which are displayed by internet browsers.

CSS Cascading Style Sheets

Is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to web documents.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

Used to style and layout web pages — for example, to alter the font, color, size, and spacing of your content, split it into multiple columns, or add animations and other decorative features.

Selector

Points to the HTML element you want to style.

Styles

Defines how to display HTML elements

Cascading Order

Applied to HTML in the following order: Browser default, External style sheet, Internal style sheet, Inline style.

Universal Selector

Selects all elements.

ID attribute

Used to define a unique style for an element.

Classes

Allow you to define a style which can be applied to multiple elements on your page.

CSS - Colors

Typically, these are used to set a color either for the foreground of an element (i.e., its text) or else for the background of the element.

background-color

The background-color property is used to set the background color of an element.

background-image

The background-image property is used to set the background image of an element.

controls position of image as a background

background-position property used for?

controls scrolling of image as background

background-attachment property used for?

shorthand to specify as number of other background properties

background property used for?

color property

The color property is used to set the color of a text.

direction property

The direction property is used to set the text direction.

letter-spacing property

The letter-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the letters that make up a word.

word-spacing property

The word-spacing property is used to add or subtract space between the words of a sentence.

text-indent property

The text-indent property is used to indent the text of a paragraph.

text-align property

The text-align property is used to align the text of a document.

text-decoration Property

The text-decoration property is used to underline, overline, and strikethrough text.

text-transform property

The text-transform property is used to capitalize text or convert text to uppercase or lowercase letters.

white-space Property

The white-space property is used to control the flow and formatting of text.

text-shadow Property

The text-shadow property is used to set the text shadow around a text.

border property

The border property is used to set the width of an image border.

height property

The height property is used to set the height of an image.

width property

The width property is used to set the width of an image.

padding property

The padding property allows you to specify how much space should appear between the content of an element and its border.

padding-bottom property

The padding-bottom specifies the bottom padding of an element.

padding-top property

The padding-top specifies the top padding of an element.

padding-left property

The padding-left specifies the left padding of an element.

padding-right property

The padding-right specifies the right padding of an element.

table-layout property

Technology which Supports load tables faster is?

font-family property

The font-family property is used to change the face of a font.

font-style property

The font-style property is used to make a font italic or oblique.

font-variant property

The font-variant property is used to create a small-caps effect.

font-weight property

The font-weight property is used to increase or decrease how bold or light a font appears.

font-size property

The font-size property is used to increase or decrease the size of a font.

margin property

The margin property defines the space around an HTML element.

Javascript

Used to enter your data and confirm that the entry data is correct

alert () statement

Displaying a message via a dialogue box

Document .write(…) statement

Is used for displaying text within a webpage contents.

Arithmetic Operators

Used for arithmetic operations.

JavaScript Condition

Used in JavaScript includes if-else conditional statements to control the program flow, similar to other programming languages.

Switch

Is a conditional statement like if statement. Switch is useful when you want to execute one of the multiple code blocks based on the return value of a specified expression.

JavaScript for Loop

JavaScript includes for loop like Java or C#. Use for loop to execute code repeatedly.

JavaScript - While Loop

JavaScript includes while loop to execute code repeatedly till it satisfies a specified condition.

JavaScript Functions

Allows you to define a block of code, give it a name and then execute it as many times as you want.

bootstrap

The web app development toolkit was created by former Twitter employees Mark Otto and Jacob Thornton

bootstrap

Most popular HTML, CSS AND JS framework for developing responsive , mobile and web projects