Web Design
Assignment—Site Plan for 10 Websites
November, 2009
Myrtle Palacio
1. http://www.belize-glessimaresearch.org/
About The Contributors
Tribute to Andy Palacio
Publications
Papers and Reports
Presentations
Endeavours in Public Service
Contact Us
Highlights
Culture
Community and Patriotic Songs
Foundation for Pablo Lambey Building
Garifuna People as Leaders in Methodism
Elections
Reports
*An Analysis of Municipal Elections 2000 (Belize)
*Report on By-election 2003 (Cayo South Electoral Division)
New Publication
A Review of Municipal Elections in Post-Independent Belize
Other
Comments on Expert Team Report on 2008 Election
*Comments Sent to Commonwealth Secretariat
*First Reply to Commonwealth Secretariat
Allegations in the Media
*Press Release
*Transparency in the Media—Reaction to Prensa Latina,
Inside Costa Rica and NAM News Network
Election Management Body: Belize’s Experience 2005
Belize National anthem in Garifuna
Books Available for Sale
*Who and What in Belizean Elections: 1954 to 1993
*The First Primer on the People Called Garifuna
Contact Us
2. http://www.belize.gov.bz
Main Menu
· Services
· About Belize
· What's New
· Government Information
· Press Office
· Useful Links
· Photos
· Videos
· Downloads
· Maps
3. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/
Main Menu
· Home
· Graphics
· Inspiration
*Photos, Showcases
*CSS, JS, Word Press
· Coding
· Design
· Workflow
*Tools, Tutorials
· Wallpapers
*Icons
· Photoshop
*Fonts, Freebies
4. http://www.canada.gc.ca
Contact Us by Telephone
· Questions and Comments Form
· Tell Us What Your Think
Help
· About the Canada Site
· Canada Site Service Line Toll-Free Numbers
· Help on the Web Accessibility Features of Canada Site
· Quick Tips
· Site Map
Search
· Advanced Search
· Help on Search
· Language Tools – Translated Terms or Synonyms
· Search Engines by Department and Agencies
Site Map
· Site Map
Our Governance
· About Government
· Government News
· Governor General
· Parliament
· Prime Minister
· Supreme Court
Services
· Canadian Business (Canada Business)
· Canadians and Residents (Service Canada)
· Non-Canadians (Canada International)
Resource Centre
· A-Z Index
· About Canada
*Economy, Government, Land, Society
· Contact your Government
*Canada Business Network
*Canada Offices Abroad
*Service Canada Centres
· Contact your MP
· Deparytments and Agencies
· Frequently Asked Questions
*By Departments and Agencies
*By Topic
· My Government Account
· On-line Forms and Services
*By A to Z
*By Topic
*On-line Tools and Calculators
*Public Participation
*Shop On-line
*Subscriptions and E-mail Notification
· Publications and Reports
*Canada Gazette
*Government of Canada Publications
*Information Guides
· Providences and Territories
· What’s New
*By Date
*By Departments and Agencies
*By Events
· Stay in Touch
*Mobile Wireless Portal
*RSS News Feeds
· Accessibility Help
*Accessibility Features Statement
*Client-side CSS for enhancing accessibility
*Interesting Text Size
· Proactive Disclosure
· Popular Services
*Canada Pension Plan
*Financial Benefits
*GST/HST Credit
*Immigration
*Jobs
*Old Age Security
*Passport
*Replacing Personal Documents
*Social Insurance Number
*Starting Business
*Taxes
*Weather Conditions
· Feature
*Government Initiatives
· Did You Know
· Important Notices
5.http://www.usa.gov/
By Organization
· A-Z Agency Index
· Federal Government
· State Government
· Local Government
· Tribal Government
By Topic
· Benefits and Grants
· Consumer Guides
· Defense and International
· Environment, Energy, and Agriculture
· Family, Home and Community
· Health and Nutrition
· History, Arts and Culture
· Jobs and Education
· Money and Taxes
· Public Safety and Law
· Reference and General Government
· Science and Technology
· Travel and Recreation
· Voting and Election
6. http://www.nasa.gov/
Home
· For Public Information
· For Educators
· For Media
· For Policymakers
· My NASA
News
· Recovery Information
· Shuttle and Station
· Moon and Mars
· Solar System
· Universe
· Aeronautics
· Technology
· NASA in your life
· NASA People
Missions
· Missions Calendar
· Launch Schedule
Multimedia
· Images
· Video
· Podcasts
· NASA TV
· 3D Resources
· Blogs
About NASA
· What NASA does
· Recovery Information
· NASA Leadership
· Careers@NASA
· NASA Location
· NASA Calendar
· Budget and Performance
· Reports
· Research and Opportunities
Connect
· Blogs
· RSS
· Twitter
· Facebook
· You Tube
· Flickr
· iTunes
· More Social Media
7. http://www.thecommonwealth.org/
Home
What’s New
· Latest News - RSS
Who We Are
What We Do
· Democracy and Concensus Building
· Economic Development
· Education
· Environmentally Sustainable Development
· Gender
· Good Offices for Peace
· Health
· Human Development
· Human Rights
· Rule of Law
· Public Sector Development
· Sport
· Youth
How We Do It
· Policy Development
*CHOGM
· Technical Assistance
*CFTC
· Advisory Services
· Development Network
· Case Studies
· Funding
*The Abuja Guidelines
News
· Events
· News Archive
· Picture Stories
· Blogs
*Kevin Nellie’s Blog
*Tom Baird’s Blog
*Victoria Holdsworth’s Blog
· Weekly Newsletter
· Around the Commonweal;th
· Profiles
· From the Archives
· Connect with us
Media Room
· Media Advisories
· Press Releases
· Media Contacts
· Broadcast Video
· Commonwealth TV
· Podcast: Pick of the Commonwealth
· Events
· In the News
· Updates
· Quotes on the Commonwealth
· Commonwealth Immages
· Secretary-General Pictures
· Secretary-General Biography
· Commonwealth FAQs
Resources
· Documents
*Leaflets/Posters
*Communiques
· Commonwealth Declarations
· Democracy
· Speeches
· Statements and Reports
· Strategic Documents
· Image Library
· Library Archives
Publications
Sitemap
Viewing Options
FAQs
Disclaimer
Email the Page
Employment
FAQs
Contact Us
8. http://www.amandala.com.bz/
Home
General
Politics
Crime
Education
International
Sports
Features
Editorial
Letters
Publisher
Classified
9. http://www.trinidadexpress.com/
Home
· ePapaer
· TV6 News and Events
· Newsletters
· Summit Stories
Opinion
Business
· Exchange Rates
· Share Prices
· Mutual Funds
· Directory
Sports
Letters
Features
Weather
Archives
Classifieds
Advertising
Featured Links
Contacts
Regional News
10. http://www.scotiabank.com/bz/cda/index/0,,LIDen,00.html
Online Services
· Personal Baking
· Business Banking
· Learn More
Belize
Personal Services
· Day-To-Day Banking
· Borrowing
· Investing
· Protection
Business Services
· Products & Services
· Small Business Banking
· About Business Banking Services
About Scotiabank
· Inside Scotiabank Belize
· Investor Relations
· Media Centre
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Assignment---Definitions
Computer Terms
Assignment for Oct 17, 2009
Web Design Myrtle Palacio
icon
1) In a computer's graphical user interface ( GUI ), an icon (pronounced EYE-kahn ) is an image that represents an application, a capability, or some other concept or specific entity with meaning for the user. An icon is usually selectable but can also be a nonselectable image such as a company's logo.
2) On a Web page, an icon is often a graphical image that represents the topic or information category of another Web page. Frequently, the icon is a hypertext link to that page. Typically, icons are gathered in one or two places on a page, either as separate graphic files or as a single image map .
3) Icon is also a lexical programming language, commonly thought to be an evolution of the SNOBOL programming language
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. While the author of a document typically links that document to a CSS style sheet, readers can use a different style sheet, perhaps one on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified.
CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.
Domain Name
A Domain Name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. They are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless. The first-level set of domain names are the top-level domains (TLDs), including the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as the prominent domains com, net and org, and the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and third-level domain names that are typically open for reservation by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run web sites, or create other publicly accessible Internet resources. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.
Individual Internet host computers use domain names as host identifiers, or hostnames. Hostnames are the leaf labels in the domain name system usually without further subordinate domain name space. Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for Internet resources such as web sites (e.g., en.wikipedia.org).
Domain names are also used as simple identification labels to indicate ownership or control of a resource. Such examples are the realm identifiers used in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the DomainKeys used to verify DNS domains in e-mail systems, and in many other Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.
Domain names are often referred to simply as domains and domain name registrants are frequently referred to as domain owners, although domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
FTP is a standard network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server applications. Client applications were originally interactive command-line tools with a standardized command syntax, but graphical user interfaces have been developed for all desktop operating systems in use today. FTP is also often used as an application component to automatically transfer files for program internal functions. FTP can be used with user-based password authentication or with anonymous user access. The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a similar, but simplified, not interoperable, and unauthenticated version of FTP.
Hotspot Link
We all know that by creating a hotspot popup in notes, and clicking on it will display a small popup. The same can be simulated on the Web. Normal idea is to open a new window and display the text. Rather than doing that, we can use active x controls to display a small beautiful tool tip. It works only on windows machines. Here is the way to do so.
PayPal
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
A PayPal account can be funded with an electronic debit from a bank account or by a credit card. The recipient of a PayPal transfer can request a check from PayPal, establish their own PayPal deposit account or request a transfer to their bank account. PayPal is an example of a payment intermediary service that facilitates worldwide e-commerce.
PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it charges a fee. It sometimes also charges a transaction fee for receiving money (a percentage of the amount sent plus an additional fixed amount). The fees charged depend on the currency used, the payment option used, the country of the sender, the country of the recipient, the amount sent and the recipient's account type. In addition, eBay purchases made by credit card through PayPal may incur a "foreign transaction fee" if the seller is located in another country, as credit card issuers are automatically informed of the seller's country of origin.
URL
In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it is often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI. [In popular language, a URI is also referred to as a Web address.
Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English physicist Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. He was later joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed using "HyperText [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and released that web in December.
A website (also spelled web site) is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network.
A web page is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A web page may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors.
Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content. The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.
All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web. The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyperlinking between them conveys the reader's perceived site structure and guides the reader's navigation of the site.
Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription sites include many business sites, parts of many news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, web-based e-mail, services, social networking websites, and sites providing real-time stock market data.
Bandwidth
In computer networking and computer science, digital bandwidth, network bandwidth or just bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it (kbit/s, Mbit/s etc).
Bandwidth may refer to bandwidth capacity or available bandwidth in bit/s, which typically means the net bit rate, channel capacity or the maximum throughput of a logical or physical communication path in a digital communication system. For example, bandwidth test implies measuring the maximum throughput of a computer network. The reason for this usage is that according to Hartley's law, the maximum data rate of a physical communication link is proportional to its bandwidth in hertz, which is sometimes called frequency bandwidth, radio bandwidth or analog bandwidth, the last especially in computer networking literature.
Bandwidth may also refer to consumed bandwidth (bandwidth consumption), corresponding to achieved throughput or goodput, i.e. average data rate of successful data transfer through a communication path. This meaning is for example used in expressions such as bandwidth shaping, bandwidth management, bandwidth throttling, bandwidth cap, bandwidth allocation (for example bandwidth allocation protocol and dynamic bandwidth allocation), etc. An explanation to this usage is that digital bandwidth of a bit stream is proportional to the average consumed signal bandwidth in Hertz (the average spectral bandwidth of the analog signal representing the bit stream) during a studied time interval.
Digital bandwidth may also refer to: average bitrate (ABR) after multimedia data compression (source coding), defined as the total amount of data divided by the playback time.
Some authors prefer less ambiguous terms such as gross bit rate, net bit rate, channel capacity and throughput, to avoid confusion between digital bandwidth in bits per second and analog bandwidth in hertz.
Computer Terms #3
Assignment for Oct 24, 2009
Web Design Myrtle Palacio
Extension
A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents. In some operating systems (for example Unix) it is optional, while in some others (such as DOS) it is a requirement. Some operating systems limit the length of the extension (such as DOS and OS/2, to three characters) while others (such as Unix) do not. Some operating systems (for example RISC OS) do not use filename extensions. Unix accepts the separator dot as a legal character but does not give it a special recognition on the OS level.
A software extension is a computer program designed to be incorporated into another piece of software in order to enhance, or extend, the functionalities of the latter. On its own, the program is not useful or functional.
Examples of software applications that support extensions include the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, Adobe Systems Photoshop and Microsoft Windows Explorer shell extensions. It is common to find that applications whose scope is potentially unbounded will feature an extensions interface (API), and the API description will often be published so that third-party developers can produce extensions.
Extension mechanisms can also be found in some operating systems such as with Linux kernel modules. The runtime environment of some programming languages also support extensions, such as PHP with support for extensions that provide an interface to third party libraries, and extensions to offer debugging, profiling, security and performance enhancement.
Domain Name
A Domain Name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. They are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless. The first-level set of domain names are the top-level domains (TLDs), including the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as the prominent domains com, net and org, and the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and third-level domain names that are typically open for reservation by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run web sites, or create other publicly accessible Internet resources. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.
Individual Internet host computers use domain names as host identifiers, or hostnames. Hostnames are the leaf labels in the domain name system usually without further subordinate domain name space. Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for Internet resources such as web sites (e.g., en.wikipedia.org).
Domain names are also used as simple identification labels to indicate ownership or control of a resource. Such examples are the realm identifiers used in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the DomainKeys used to verify DNS domains in e-mail systems, and in many other Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.
Domain names are often referred to simply as domains and domain name registrants are frequently referred to as domain owners, although domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.
Meta Tag
Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes. The meta element has four valid attributes: content, http-equiv, name and scheme. Of these, only content is a required attribute
E-commerceElectronic commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade
Assignment for Oct 17, 2009
Web Design Myrtle Palacio
icon
1) In a computer's graphical user interface ( GUI ), an icon (pronounced EYE-kahn ) is an image that represents an application, a capability, or some other concept or specific entity with meaning for the user. An icon is usually selectable but can also be a nonselectable image such as a company's logo.
2) On a Web page, an icon is often a graphical image that represents the topic or information category of another Web page. Frequently, the icon is a hypertext link to that page. Typically, icons are gathered in one or two places on a page, either as separate graphic files or as a single image map .
3) Icon is also a lexical programming language, commonly thought to be an evolution of the SNOBOL programming language
Cascading Style Sheets
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document, including SVG and XUL.
CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content (written in HTML or a similar markup language) from document presentation, including elements such as the layout, colors, and fonts. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics, enable multiple pages to share formatting, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content (such as by allowing for tableless web design). CSS can also allow the same markup page to be presented in different styles for different rendering methods, such as on-screen, in print, by voice (when read out by a speech-based browser or screen reader) and on Braille-based, tactile devices. While the author of a document typically links that document to a CSS style sheet, readers can use a different style sheet, perhaps one on their own computer, to override the one the author has specified.
CSS specifies a priority scheme to determine which style rules apply if more than one rule matches against a particular element. In this so-called cascade, priorities or weights are calculated and assigned to rules, so that the results are predictable.
Domain Name
A Domain Name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. They are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless. The first-level set of domain names are the top-level domains (TLDs), including the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as the prominent domains com, net and org, and the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and third-level domain names that are typically open for reservation by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run web sites, or create other publicly accessible Internet resources. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.
Individual Internet host computers use domain names as host identifiers, or hostnames. Hostnames are the leaf labels in the domain name system usually without further subordinate domain name space. Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for Internet resources such as web sites (e.g., en.wikipedia.org).
Domain names are also used as simple identification labels to indicate ownership or control of a resource. Such examples are the realm identifiers used in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the DomainKeys used to verify DNS domains in e-mail systems, and in many other Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.
Domain names are often referred to simply as domains and domain name registrants are frequently referred to as domain owners, although domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.
File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
FTP is a standard network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on a client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server applications. Client applications were originally interactive command-line tools with a standardized command syntax, but graphical user interfaces have been developed for all desktop operating systems in use today. FTP is also often used as an application component to automatically transfer files for program internal functions. FTP can be used with user-based password authentication or with anonymous user access. The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is a similar, but simplified, not interoperable, and unauthenticated version of FTP.
Hotspot Link
We all know that by creating a hotspot popup in notes, and clicking on it will display a small popup. The same can be simulated on the Web. Normal idea is to open a new window and display the text. Rather than doing that, we can use active x controls to display a small beautiful tool tip. It works only on windows machines. Here is the way to do so.
PayPal
PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders.
A PayPal account can be funded with an electronic debit from a bank account or by a credit card. The recipient of a PayPal transfer can request a check from PayPal, establish their own PayPal deposit account or request a transfer to their bank account. PayPal is an example of a payment intermediary service that facilitates worldwide e-commerce.
PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other commercial users, for which it charges a fee. It sometimes also charges a transaction fee for receiving money (a percentage of the amount sent plus an additional fixed amount). The fees charged depend on the currency used, the payment option used, the country of the sender, the country of the recipient, the amount sent and the recipient's account type. In addition, eBay purchases made by credit card through PayPal may incur a "foreign transaction fee" if the seller is located in another country, as credit card issuers are automatically informed of the seller's country of origin.
URL
In computing, a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a subset of the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that specifies where an identified resource is available and the mechanism for retrieving it. In popular usage and in many technical documents and verbal discussions it is often incorrectly used as a synonym for URI. [In popular language, a URI is also referred to as a Web address.
Web
The World Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English physicist Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web. He was later joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed using "HyperText [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and released that web in December.
A website (also spelled web site) is a collection of related web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that are addressed with a common domain name or IP address in an Internet Protocol-based network. A web site is hosted on at least one web server, accessible via a network such as the Internet or a private local area network.
A web page is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, XHTML). A web page may incorporate elements from other websites with suitable markup anchors.
Web pages are accessed and transported with the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which may optionally employ encryption (HTTP Secure, HTTPS) to provide security and privacy for the user of the web page content. The user's application, often a web browser, renders the page content according to its HTML markup instructions onto a display terminal.
All publicly accessible websites collectively constitute the World Wide Web. The pages of a website can usually be accessed from a simple Uniform Resource Locator (URL) called the homepage. The URLs of the pages organize them into a hierarchy, although hyperlinking between them conveys the reader's perceived site structure and guides the reader's navigation of the site.
Some websites require a subscription to access some or all of their content. Examples of subscription sites include many business sites, parts of many news sites, academic journal sites, gaming sites, message boards, web-based e-mail, services, social networking websites, and sites providing real-time stock market data.
Bandwidth
In computer networking and computer science, digital bandwidth, network bandwidth or just bandwidth is a measure of available or consumed data communication resources expressed in bit/s or multiples of it (kbit/s, Mbit/s etc).
Bandwidth may refer to bandwidth capacity or available bandwidth in bit/s, which typically means the net bit rate, channel capacity or the maximum throughput of a logical or physical communication path in a digital communication system. For example, bandwidth test implies measuring the maximum throughput of a computer network. The reason for this usage is that according to Hartley's law, the maximum data rate of a physical communication link is proportional to its bandwidth in hertz, which is sometimes called frequency bandwidth, radio bandwidth or analog bandwidth, the last especially in computer networking literature.
Bandwidth may also refer to consumed bandwidth (bandwidth consumption), corresponding to achieved throughput or goodput, i.e. average data rate of successful data transfer through a communication path. This meaning is for example used in expressions such as bandwidth shaping, bandwidth management, bandwidth throttling, bandwidth cap, bandwidth allocation (for example bandwidth allocation protocol and dynamic bandwidth allocation), etc. An explanation to this usage is that digital bandwidth of a bit stream is proportional to the average consumed signal bandwidth in Hertz (the average spectral bandwidth of the analog signal representing the bit stream) during a studied time interval.
Digital bandwidth may also refer to: average bitrate (ABR) after multimedia data compression (source coding), defined as the total amount of data divided by the playback time.
Some authors prefer less ambiguous terms such as gross bit rate, net bit rate, channel capacity and throughput, to avoid confusion between digital bandwidth in bits per second and analog bandwidth in hertz.
Computer Terms #3
Assignment for Oct 24, 2009
Web Design Myrtle Palacio
Extension
A filename extension is a suffix to the name of a computer file applied to indicate the encoding convention (file format) of its contents. In some operating systems (for example Unix) it is optional, while in some others (such as DOS) it is a requirement. Some operating systems limit the length of the extension (such as DOS and OS/2, to three characters) while others (such as Unix) do not. Some operating systems (for example RISC OS) do not use filename extensions. Unix accepts the separator dot as a legal character but does not give it a special recognition on the OS level.
A software extension is a computer program designed to be incorporated into another piece of software in order to enhance, or extend, the functionalities of the latter. On its own, the program is not useful or functional.
Examples of software applications that support extensions include the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, Adobe Systems Photoshop and Microsoft Windows Explorer shell extensions. It is common to find that applications whose scope is potentially unbounded will feature an extensions interface (API), and the API description will often be published so that third-party developers can produce extensions.
Extension mechanisms can also be found in some operating systems such as with Linux kernel modules. The runtime environment of some programming languages also support extensions, such as PHP with support for extensions that provide an interface to third party libraries, and extensions to offer debugging, profiling, security and performance enhancement.
Domain Name
A Domain Name is an identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet, based on the Domain Name System (DNS).
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes. They are organized in subordinate levels (subdomains) of the DNS root domain, which is nameless. The first-level set of domain names are the top-level domains (TLDs), including the generic top-level domains (gTLDs), such as the prominent domains com, net and org, and the country code top-level domains (ccTLDs). Below these top-level domains in the DNS hierarchy are the second-level and third-level domain names that are typically open for reservation by end-users that wish to connect local area networks to the Internet, run web sites, or create other publicly accessible Internet resources. The registration of these domain names is usually administered by domain name registrars who sell their services to the public.
Individual Internet host computers use domain names as host identifiers, or hostnames. Hostnames are the leaf labels in the domain name system usually without further subordinate domain name space. Hostnames appear as a component in Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for Internet resources such as web sites (e.g., en.wikipedia.org).
Domain names are also used as simple identification labels to indicate ownership or control of a resource. Such examples are the realm identifiers used in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP), the DomainKeys used to verify DNS domains in e-mail systems, and in many other Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs).
An important purpose of domain names is to provide easily recognizable and memorizable names to numerically addressed Internet resources. This abstraction allows any resource (e.g., website) to be moved to a different physical location in the address topology of the network, globally or locally in an intranet. Such a move usually requires changing the IP address of a resource and the corresponding translation of this IP address to and from its domain name.
Domain names are often referred to simply as domains and domain name registrants are frequently referred to as domain owners, although domain name registration with a registrar does not confer any legal ownership of the domain name, only an exclusive right of use.
Meta Tag
Meta elements are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes. The meta element has four valid attributes: content, http-equiv, name and scheme. Of these, only content is a required attribute
E-commerceElectronic commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade
Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Invitation to View and Critique First Web Design Project
To Classmates and Lecturer:
Here is your invitation to view my first major effort. Enjoy but please go easy with the critique :). The photograph is of Ms Naiomi of Dangriga, Belize who bakes ereba for a living. Just click the link: http://www.wix.com/MyrtleP/cassava-bread
Myrtle P
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Assignment Due to Date for Web Design
To: Yasser
Class: Web Design
Subject: Assignments to date
1. Design Home Page for weebly---
2. First 10 definitions--submitted October 15
3. Haulover Creek Site with 7 pages---submitted October 15 (www.hauloversps7.weebly.com)
4. Set up blogger account and send to fellow students--Submitted October 16 (www.gumagarugu.blogspot.com)
5. Second 10 definitions--Submitted October 15
6. Gallery of 6 pics to the Haulover Creek weebly website--submitted October 20 (www.hauloversps7.weebly.com)
7. Set up Jalbum account--www.imyrtlep.jalbum.net submitted October 16
8. Set up of Wix.com acount--www.wix.com/myrtlep/myrtlep submitted October 16
9. Third 10 definitions--submitted October 20
10. Concept on website project--submitted Oct 16 with updates Oct 20 as follows:
It is to be a one stop website on Cassava Bread or Ereba---to include 1. background information on growing and harvesting, who uses (people & country), many uses of the plant and the by-products; 2. The preparation processes both traditional and modern by various countries and peoples; 3. Its nutritional and economic value. There will be 7 pages, namely: Home, About Us, Gallery, Background, Cassava Making Processes, Blog, Contact Us
I. Myrtle Palacio
Class: Web Design
Subject: Assignments to date
1. Design Home Page for weebly---
2. First 10 definitions--submitted October 15
3. Haulover Creek Site with 7 pages---submitted October 15 (www.hauloversps7.weebly.com)
4. Set up blogger account and send to fellow students--Submitted October 16 (www.gumagarugu.blogspot.com)
5. Second 10 definitions--Submitted October 15
6. Gallery of 6 pics to the Haulover Creek weebly website--submitted October 20 (www.hauloversps7.weebly.com)
7. Set up Jalbum account--www.imyrtlep.jalbum.net submitted October 16
8. Set up of Wix.com acount--www.wix.com/myrtlep/myrtlep submitted October 16
9. Third 10 definitions--submitted October 20
10. Concept on website project--submitted Oct 16 with updates Oct 20 as follows:
It is to be a one stop website on Cassava Bread or Ereba---to include 1. background information on growing and harvesting, who uses (people & country), many uses of the plant and the by-products; 2. The preparation processes both traditional and modern by various countries and peoples; 3. Its nutritional and economic value. There will be 7 pages, namely: Home, About Us, Gallery, Background, Cassava Making Processes, Blog, Contact Us
I. Myrtle Palacio
Friday, October 16, 2009
Ya da fu we Belize
Mabuiga
I invite you to visit the website http://www.belize-glessimaresearch.org/. This website carries well-researched articles, papers, thesis resulting from the primary and secondary research techniques on topical areas of socio-political and socio-cultural concerns about Belize and Belizeans. It is the initiative o Myrtle Palacio as another medium of sharing information with Belizeans and those with interests in Belize. You are invited to contribute.
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