website creation Flashcards
A website is…
A collection of web pages and related content that is identified by a common domain name and published on at least one web server
What is a CMS (content management system)?
Software used to manage the creation and modification of digital content
What can you use a CMS system for?
A CMS System makes it easy to add new pages and edit existing pages on a website
What are some of the features of a CMS?
- Intuitive web based publishing
- WYSIWYG editing functionality
• Format management
• Revision control
• Indexing
• Search and retrieval
• SEO meta-tags and URLs
• Keyword specification
• Metadata
• Analytics
Scheduling
• Themes
• Templates
• Add-ons
• Widgets
• Plugins
• Basic image editing tools like cropping
resizing, rotating
• Ability to upload files such as PDFs and
Word documents
• Permissions/user access
• Security
What are the benefits of using a CMS?
What different types of hosting are there?
Self hosting and managed hosting
What are the advantages of self-hosting?
1,000s of themes • Ability to edit • 1,000s of plugins • Total control • Option to advertise, or not • Ability to access and backup files • Manage own database • Get things done immediately • Ownership
What are the advantages of managed hosting?
- Managed servers generally provide speed
- Security
- Expert support
- Daily backups
- Automatic updates
- No downtime
- Accessible developer tools
- Scalable
- Will cope with high bandwidth
What are the 2 x basic things you need to get a website online?
Host and Domain name
What is a domain name?
The address of you website? i.e. www.emerson.com
its a nice way of displaying IP addresses and is easier to remember than a set of numbers i.e. 77.157.23.1
Why do businesses need a website?
Assessible
Professional
Reputational
Why should a website’s navigation be simple?
Easy for the visitor to use (usability)
Easy for visitor to find what they are looking for
If too difficult, visitor could go elsewhere
What is a user experience?
should be produced with emphasis on the user
enjoyable to interact with
positive user experience to maximise usage or sales of a product/service
What do you need to know to create a Mobile website optimisation?
- website should be laid out with buttons mobile friendly
- keep layout simple
- resize images for mobile users
- optimise for multiple screens
- create mobile friendly landing pages
- Quick loading speeds on mobile
Name some IMAGE file types for web development?
.jpg .png .gif .tiff .pdf .eps .raw .svg .heic
