Web Technologies

Question 1

CSS definition

Answer 1

Cascading Style Sheets

a style language used to define the layout, design and presentation of a webpage written in a markup language

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Client-side processing definition

Answer 1

the data processing and operations performed by the client

the client’s browser runs the processing using the user’s local computer resources

typically used to run less critical code

Question 2

HTML definition

Answer 2

HyperText markup language

a markup language used to write the contents of webpages on the World Wide Web

Question 3

JavaScript definition

Answer 3

an interpreted, object-oriented programming language used to create interactive elements within web browsers for adding functionality to dynamic web pages

Question 4

PageRank algorithms definition

Answer 4

an algorithm developed by Google to rank websites in their search results by usefulness

it ranks a webpage’s quality and importance by counting the number of links to that webpage

Question 5

search engine indexing definition

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a method of collecting, parsing and storing data from websites to facilitate fast and accurate information retrieval by the search engine

the search engine relies on an index of webpages to accomplish this

Question 6

server-side processing

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the data processing and operations performed by the web server

data is sent from the client’s browser to the web server for secure processing, and the output is sent back to the client