What types of websites are there?
- Blog website – Provide information on various topics
- Entertainment website – Allows watching movies and videos, listening to songs, playing games etc
- Podcast Website – Collection of digital audio files that users can download
- News portal – News and magazine websites publishing news online
- Membership site – Offers premium content to registered or paid members
- Social media site – Let users engage and interact with other user
- Education website – Websites of schools, universities, educational information and materials to students
- Government website – Provides different types of information and services
- Search engine site – Help users search for things on the web
- eCommerce website – Channel for buying and selling products online
- Business website – Promote their business/brand online goods and services
- Personal website – Created for an individual
- Portfolio website – Photographers, tattoo artists, painters, artists, developers, designers showcase their work
- LMS (Learning Management System) websites – online courses etc
- Landing Page Website – website comprising a few well-designed marketing pages. Such sites are generally for a marketing or advertising campaign
- Directory website – Eg Restaurants, Jobs (total jobs)
- Non-profit/Charity Website – Non-profit or charity sites don’t sell products/services for profit
- Wiki Website – Wiki website is like a knowledge base for a particular subject
- Social Forum Website – Consists of a model for posting a question where multiple users can contribute by answering the posted question
What is website security?
Is the protection of personal and organisational public facing websites from cyber attacks
What is website accessibility?
A website is open for users with disabilities
What is SEO (search engine optimisation)?
Process of improving the visibility of a website or webpage on a search engine results page
What is Javascript?
JavaScript is a scripting language that enables you to create dynamically updating content, control multimedia, animate images etc
What is html?
HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language and is the standard language for creating Web pages
What is css?
CSS is the language we use to style an HTML document. How HTML elements should be displayed
What is CMS (content management system)?
An application that is used to manage content, allowing multiple contributors to create, edit and publish
What is an API (Application Programming Interface)?
communicate between different software services. Different types of APIs are used in programming hardware and software, including operating systemAPIs, remote APIs and web APIs. For example if you want to display the weather on your website you would use a Weather data API
What is a website?
A website is a collection of publicly accessible, interlinked Web pages that share a single domain name which you can view on internet connected devices (computer, phone, tablet).
What is a web browser?
A web browser is application software for accessing websites (Chrome, Safari etc).
What is a domain?
A domain name is the unique address for a website
What is a database?
Database is an organised collection of data stored and accessed electronically. Contain information, such as sales transactions, customer data, financials and product information
What can you display on a website?
Text, images, videos, audio, and animation and the services may be like buying or selling products, downloading digital products, etc.