The World Wide Web "week 3"

What is an advocacy Web site?
Contains content that describes a cause, opinion,or idea.
What is a blog?
Short for Weblog, uses a regularly update journal format to reflect the intersts, opinion, and personalities of the author and sometimes site vistors.
What is a wiki?
Collaborative Web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or delete the Web site content via their Web browser.
What is an online social network?
Encourages members to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos.
Media sharing Web site.
What is a content aggregator?
Business that gathers and organizes Web content and then distributes, or feeds, the content to subscribers for free or a fee.
What is a personal Web site?
Web page maintained by private individual or family.
Reasons: sharing life experience with the worldor job hunting.

The World Wide Web "week 3"

What is a portal?
A Web site that offers a variety of services from one, convenient location, usually for free.
What is a news Web site?
Contains newsworthy material, stories and articles relating to current events, life, money, sports, and the weather .
What is an informational Web site?
Contains factual information, created by organizations and government agencies.
What is a business/marketing Web site?
Contains content that promotes products or services, allows you to purchase products or services online ...
What is an educational Web site?
Offers avenues for formal and informal teachingand learning.
What is an entertainment Web site?
Offers an interactive and engaging environment featuring music, videos, sports, games.

The World Wide Web "week 2"

What is a Web browser?
Program that allows you to view Web pages.
What is a home page?
That a Web site displays .
Connections to other Web pages.
How do Internet-enabled mobile devices access the Web?
Use a microbrowser that displays Web pages.
What is downloading?
Process of a computer receiving information.
Depending upon connection speed.
What is a URL?
Unique address for a Web page.
A web server delivers the Web page to your computer.
What is a hyperlink (link)?
Built-in connection to another related Web page location.
What is a search engine?
Used to find Web sites and Web pages by entering words or phrases called search text.
What is a hit?
Web site name that is listed as the result of a search.
What are the twelve basic types of ?
Portal/new/informational/Business"Marketing"/educational/entertainment/advocacy/blog/Wiki/
social network/content aggregator/personal.