Web-based Information Systems

Question 1

URL

Answer 1

Uniform Resource Locator

It tells your web browser the address of the web server storing the pages you wish to display.

Question 2

Internal Hyperlink

Answer 2

links that keep you within the website you are visiting, but take you to a different page.

Question 3

External Hyperlink

Answer 3

links that take you to another website.

Question 4

Relative link

Answer 4

Relative links in web pages link to a location in the same directory

Question 5

Absolute links

Answer 5

Absolute links are completely fixed. They do not change and point directly to a specific location to access

Question 6

What is a web browser?

Answer 6

Software that allows us to see the web pages that we are accessing

Question 7

What do web browsers do?

Answer 7

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.

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