Transcript What does WWW stand for? And following abbreviations?

What does WWW stand for? And following
abbreviations?
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HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
HTML: Hyper Text Mark-up Language
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
XML: Extensible Mark-up Language
Describe a complete Web browsing
session.
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User request
DNS lookup
HTTP Request
Send Get / HTTP /1.1
Server checks request
Server sends back HTML
Document or result via HTTP
What is a dynamic Web site? What
is a static Web site?
• Static (content and design)
– Web sites will be a flat-file system of HTML files
– The requirements for a static site are mostly content related
– All pages reside on the server and have fixed content that will be
served “as is” to the user
– The dynamic generation of Web pages is impossible
– Content and presentation are merged
• Dynamic (content, design and programming)
– The contents be stored in a database
– Dynamic site will have content requirements and functionality
requirements
– Database-driven site separates content from presentation
Tell the advantages of a dynamic
Web site.
– Dynamic generation of pages
– Individually tailored content
– The use of pre-designed templates ensures
uniformity in page appearance
– Search capability
– Ease of management and updating
– Simplification of site maintenance
Name any three of the Web site
content organization models.
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Linear Model
Grid Model
Pure Web Model
Hierarchy Model
Write an HTML code to create the following effect
(Alignment should also be considered).
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NAME
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<table rules=all width=80% align=center>
<tr><th>NAME<th>ROOM<tg>TELEPHONE
<tr><td>ZHANFANG ZHAO<td>T409<td>6340
</table>
ZHANFANG ZHAO
ROOM TELEPHONE
T409
6340
Write a web page to display
following structure.
Frame1
Frame2 Frame3
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<frameset rows=“15%,50%" name=”upper”>
<frame src=“Frame1.html">
<frameset cols=“50%,*">
<frame src=“Frame2.html" name=”index”>
<frame src=“Frame3.html” name=”main”>
</frameset>
</frameset>
What is the syntax to use form on a
web page? Give an example!
• <FORM
action=http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/cowen/
cgi-bin/form.cgi method=post>
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• </FORM>
What is client profiling? Explain the
importance of client profiling.
• Client profiling will collect the following information about
the client application
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What platform are currently used on the network?
What browsers are used?
What screen resolutions are supported?
Has the user been to the site before?
What language does the user speak?
What are her/his likes and dislikes?
• In brief, the client profiling is simply the idea of trying to
determine as much as possible about the client’s system
and then designing the site or modifying the site to meet
a particular configuration for users.
What is hypertext?
• Hypertext:
– A large body of information is organized into
numerous pages, or, in the case of the Web,
into pages
– The pages relate to each other
– A user needs only a small fraction of the info
at any given time