Week 1 - Introduction & HTML Part 1 Flashcards
Who created the web and when was it?
Tim Berners-Lee in 1990-1991
What is the purpose of HTML?
It is used in marking up the content and the structure of a web page.
What is the purpose of HTTPS?
It is a protocol used to transfer HTML documents over the internet.
What is the Consortium and what’s their goal?
The Consortium is a group of programmers, web developers and authors who banded together in 1994 to optimise the full potential of the web.
This group created the standards which are followed today to increase the web’s potential.
What does a server consist of?
- A computer which is constantly running, an OS (maybe NOS) and an Internet connection.
- Web Server Software to manage all the HTTPS requests being made
- Information and databases with required documents and web pages as well as managing the privacy and security.
What are examples of web documents?
They are the text/files which make up a web document. They are:
- HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language used to structure and markup the content within a page.
- CSS: Cascading Style Sheets to style and change the presentation of the page such as color and font.
- JS: JavaScript which is used to enhance the interactivity of the page
- Graphics in order to make the page more engaging
How is HTML structured?
HTML documents follow a tree structure with the html element being the root and the 2 children are body and head which contain things such as content and headings respectively.
What is metadata and what’s its purpose?
It tells us how characters are encoded (kjt&54;?) and allows for faster rendering of said characters.
It’s used with a meta tag in the head element.
Where are web pages and information stored?
They are on the web server and when requested will render and send it to the client over the internet.
meta charset = UTF-8
Used to specify the character encoding throughout the HTML file and is convention in HTML5 to use UTF-8 as it covers almost all characters in the world.
