Chapter 1

Question 1

Browsing and surfing the web

Answer 1

exploring the web by moving from one webpage to another.

Question 2

Influence on Society

Answer 2

Influences the way the world communicates, educates, entertains, and conducts business significantly by electronically exchanging messages and information.

Question 3

Social bookmarking

Answer 3

Allows users to share their webpage favourites, news articles, bookmarks, and tags

Question 4

e-commerce 

Answer 4

encompasses a wide variety of online business activities, including consumer shopping and investing and the exchange of business data and transactions within a company or among multiple companies

Question 5

Internet Service Providers

Answer 5

is a business that has a permanent Internet connection and provides temporary Internet connections to individuals and companies

Question 6

Types of websites

Answer 6

Personal Websites
Organisational/topical
Commercial

Question 7

Personal Websites

Answer 7

Limited development resources,
Share common interests and hobbies,
Promote employment credentials.

Question 8

Organisational/topical website

Answer 8

Contain information on particular organizations,
Focus on a specific subject.

Question 9

Commercial website

Answer 9

Used to promote and sell a product or service
More sophisticated commercial websites generally produce greater revenue.

Question 10

index

Answer 10

A search engine might use a variety of methods to create its website database

Question 11

e web crawlers or spiders

Answer 11

which are programs that browse the web for new pages and then add the webpages’ URLs and other information to their indexes.

Question 12

Meta tags

Answer 12

which are special codes added to webpages, contain information such as keywords and descriptive data regarding a webpage.

Question 13

metasearch engine

Answer 13

that performs a keyword search using multiple search engines’ indexes.

Question 14

search directory

Answer 14

builds its webpage index using human interaction. Website owners can submit website information to a search directory.

Question 15

Portals

Answer 15

websites that offer a starting point for accessing information

Question 16

General consumer portal

Answer 16

website offers a variety of features, including search services, email, chat rooms, news and sports, maps, and online shopping.

Question 17

personal portal

Answer 17

is a version of a general consumer portal, such as MyYahoo!, which a user can customize for personal preferences.

Question 18

vertical portal

Answer 18

provides a starting point for finding information about specific areas of interest

Question 19

corporate portal

Answer 19

run on a company’s intranet, provides an entry point for a company’s employees and business partners into its private network

Question 20

web development tools

Answer 20

Inserting and formatting text and inserting images or links in a webpage using a web development tool are similar to creating a document in a word processor

Question 21

Challenges to using web development tools

Answer 21

Might look different than what you see in browser. Unnecessary codes create large, slow-loading webpages. Might not use latest markup language standards.

Question 22

Web Design Roles