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WOMEN IN TECH
PRESENTS
INTRO TO
WEB
THINGS
WHAT IS A
Browser?
Browser
A program with a graphical user interface for displaying HTML files, used to navigate the World Wide Web.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer
Mozilla FireFox
Google Chrome
Apple Safari
WHAT IS A
Website?
Website
A website is a collection of related material that contains text, images, and may also include video, audio or other media.
Media Temple: What is a website? http://kb.mediatemple.net/questions/152/What+is+a+website%3F
WHAT IS
HTML?
HTML
HyperText Markup Language, a standardized system for tagging text files to achieve font, color, graphic, and hyperlink effects on World Wide Web pages.
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<html>
<head>
<title>This is a Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>This is a Header</h1>
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>WHAT IS
CSS?
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets, a style sheet language used to descibe the look, feel, and formatting of a markup document (like HTML).
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/* Main CSS File */
/* ID */
#thisIsAnID {
border: 1px solid blue;
}
/* Class */
.this-is-a-class {
color: red;
background: black;
}
/* Paragraph */
p {
font-size: 18px;
}WHAT IS
JavaScript?
JavaScript
JavaScript (JS), an object-oriented computer programming language commonly used to create interactive effects within web browsers
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<script>
<!--
function ss()
{
var ok=confirm('Click "OK" to go to yahoo, "CANCEL" to go to hotmail')
if (ok)
location="http://www.yahoo.com"
else
location="http://www.hotmail.com"
}
//-->
</script>WHAT IS
DNS?
DNS
The Domain Name System translates human-readable hostnames into IP addresses.
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WHAT IS A
Front End Developer?
Front End Developer
A person who develops the part of a website you see and interact with using HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
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WHAT IS A
Back End Developer?
Back End Developer
A person who develops the way a website uses and stores information using server languages like PHP, Ruby and Python.
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WHAT IS AN
API?
API
The Application Programming Interface is a way software components can interact with each other to share information.
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WHAT IS A
UI?
UI
The User Interface is the part of the website that you interact with. This may or maynot contain things like forms, buttons and hyperlinks.
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WHAT IS
Responsive?
Responsive
Responsive Web Design is a design and development practice where the way a website displays itself is based upon the device viewing it.
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WHAT IS A
Repo?
Repo
A Repo is short for repository. A repository is where project files are stored that developers often use to collaborate on with each other.
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