Website Programming - JavaScript & Web Analytics

Question 1

Content Management Systems (CMS)

Answer 1

CMS stands for Content Management System, is software that helps you to build a website without programming skills

eg: Wix, Weebly, Squarespace

Question 2

Benefits of a CMS

Answer 2

Website management
Time to market
Customization
Multi-user support
Previews & Testing

Question 3

Javascript (JS)

Answer 3

A programming language invented by Netscape that is used to control the objects on an HTML page and handle interactions with the browser. Most popular programming langauge

Question 4

Variables (JS)

Answer 4

Name on a unit of data. In JS, variable are generated with “var”

eg:
var x = 4
var color = blue

Question 5

3 layers of building on HTML

Answer 5

1. HTML to define the content of web page
2. CSS to specify the layout of web pages
3. JavaScript to program the behaviour of web pages

Question 6

Properties & Methods (JS)

Answer 6

Property - Value that you can get or set (like changing the content of an HTML element)
Methods - An action you can do (like add or deleting an HTML element) (on HTML elements or other objects)

eg:

document.getElementById ("demo") .innerhtml = "Hello"

Method = getElementById
Property = innerhtml

Question 7

Functions (JS)

Answer 7

Series of JS statements that achieve a specific task. The function is defined with a function keyword, followed by a name, followed by parentheses

eg:
function sum (a, b) {
return a + b;
}

Question 8

Tracking

Answer 8

Adding a measurement code to a page to measure them with tracking abilities, allowing for third parties to track user behaviour such as the next page they visit, etc