ITEC/IRM 1005 Tutorial Handout

Week 1: Introduction to Web Interfaces

Review Questions
Question Answer
Where are web pages stored?
Web servers

What is a client?
The machine on which we access web data

How does a client get data from a server?

Through Internet

What is hypertext?
A text which includes a link to connect internet
relates to graphics and informations. They
always works by point and click method.

What is the difference between the Internet and

the World Wide Web? World Wide Web is on of the content of
the Internet
Web Browsers

Question Answer
What is the purpose of a web browser? To surf website on pages

What is a URL for?

To localize a website . URL means Uniform
Resource Locater.

What is the difference between HTTP and HTTPS?

HTTPS is a secure protocol related to HTTP

What if a URL doesn’t say HTTP or HTTPS? HTTP makes the browser send request to the
web server. Http should be added manually if it
doesn't say in the URL, otherwise the pages will
not be opened.
Page Source
Question Answer
What is the page source?
Page source is the foundation code of pages

How do you view the page source?

Click Ctrl+U when you surf on the browser

Client-Side and Server-Side Development

This course deals only with designing and developing web interfaces.
On a web page, what functionality is normally handled by the client, and what normally requires
communication with the server?
Client Side Server Side

Web application of a dynamic web page Web functions that need data transfer. Such as
search engines
HTML,CCS,Javascript
php,database
Overview of Client-Side Technologies
Virtually all major web sites use HTML (or XHTML), CSS, and Javascript. What is the role of each of these
client-side technologies?
HTML (or XHTML) Hypertext markup language. Make up the website

CSS
A computer language to show HTML and XML

Javascript
Responds actions

Acknowledgements to Billy Hamilton for being the original author of these tutorial examples.