Web-based Information Systems Flashcards
URL
Uniform Resource Locator
It tells your web browser the address of the web server storing the pages you wish to display.
Internal Hyperlink
links that keep you within the website you are visiting, but take you to a different page.
External Hyperlink
links that take you to another website.
Relative link
Relative links in web pages link to a location in the same directory
Absolute links
Absolute links are completely fixed. They do not change and point directly to a specific location to access
What is a web browser?
Software that allows us to see the web pages that we are accessing
What do web browsers do?
Downloads pages of code from a web server somewhere and makes sense of the different HTML, JavaScript and PHP commands that make it up. The end result is what we see in the browser window.
Look for websites which match our searches
Suggest pages that we may want to visit, based on our search