Task 1
Website construction: website construction is basically the web pages and layout that builds the size of the website. The web pages that make up your site are the lowest common denominator in establishing your website structure. if the the individual pages of your website don’t have a definable organisation it won’t be possible for your website to be a effective site structure. Every single page in your website should have a logical reason for being there. each page should also link up well together for your website to be effective plus there appearance needs to be consistent. For example : one page can’t have a bright colour scheme with a theme of rainbows and then a another page to totally have the opposite with a black and red colour scheme with a gothic theme, it just doesn’t work and puts people off visiting your website as its none consistent. You need to stick to the 3 colour scheme rule to give your website consistent with its appearence and also stick to a low amount of fonts with one language. you also need to keep images a similar sizes to keep the layout and construction effective.
HTML: HTML is the coding language on how to create a website. HTML stands for :Hypertext Markup Language. It’s this language that tells the computer which colour to use, which font to use, which size to use and which graphics to use. other things like Javascript and CSS also used for producing websites and mobiles interfaces.
It’s web browsers that read the HTML language to render it into a visible or audible file for us to see or hear and use. HTML describes the structure of a website semantically and, before the advent of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), included cues for the presentation or appearance of the document (web page), making it a markup language, rather than a programming language.
XHTML: XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language.Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which Web pages are formulated.
CSS: CSS stands for cascading style sheets. CSS is a mechanism that controls adding things like the style of fonts, colors and the spacing. Along with HTML and Javascript, CSS is a cornerstone technology used by most websites to create visually engaging webpages, user interfaces for web applications and user interfaces for many mobile applications. CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including aspects such as the layout, colors, and fonts.[3] This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility and control in the specification of presentation characteristics enable multiple HTML pages to share formatting by specifying the relevant CSS in a separate .css file, and reduce complexity and repetition in the structural content. This separation of content makes it possible present the same markup page in different colors, formats and styles
HTTP
HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is the standard protocol for transferring web pages (and their content) across the Internet. You may have noticed that when you browse a web page, the URL is preceded by “HTTP://”. This is telling the web browser to use HTTP to transfer the data. Most browsers will default to HTTP if you don’t specify it.
HTTPS
HTTPS stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer. Think of it as a secure version of HTTP. HTTPS is used primarily on web pages that ask you to provide personal or sensitive information (such as a password or your credit card details). For example the search engine google uses HTTPS as you may have to add some personal information if you uses its Gmail linked to the search engine. When you browse a web page using HTTPS, you are using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer). For a website to use HTTPS it needs to have an SSL certificate installed on the server. Some browsers have padlock icons for you to click onto to check the websites SSL and you can check the website belongs to the organisation you think it belongs to.
FTP
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is used to transfer files across the Internet. FTP is commonly used by web developers to publish updates to a website (i.e. to upload a new version of the website).
Where HTTP is used for displaying the file in your browser, FTP is used simply to transfer the file from one computer to a specified location on another computer. You can use FTP to transfer the files from your computer to a remote computer (such as a web server), or to transfer from the remote computer to your local computer.
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