Good Web Design? What Is It?

VOCABULARY PRACTICE SECTION 1

1. Look at Key information section 1 and find the following.

1. a software application for creating web pages

2. a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow

3. a document or resource of information that is suitable for the World Wide Web and can be accessed through a web browser and displayed on a monitor or mobile device

4. used to access the World Wide Web 5. produces hypertext, a blend of text, graphics and links 6. a stricter version of HTML 7. a language, which makes it possible to present information (e.g. scientific research) on the Internet

8. labels you use to mark up the beginning and end of an element in a webpage

9. a language capable of pulling specific information from the database depending on what the user wants to know

10. What You See Is What You Get

11. the recommended method of expressing the precise "look and feel" of a web page

12. a collection of rules containing declarations (instructions) on how the contents of a web page is rendeblue by a browser

13. Active Server Pages

14. Hypertext Preprocessor, a server-side HTML-embedded scripting language

15. CFML

2. Complete the text with the words in the boxes.

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There are unlimited possibilities when it comes to designing a (1) …: Flash, Database, content management, Client Login, etc. A question to ask yourself when deciding how to do your website is: How can I most effectively present my (2) … to my visitors?

Of course there are several things to consider like (3) … but I feel that when talking strictly about (4) … it is important to put your (5) … as first priority as they are the reason you are building the website.

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Flash - I find is normally over done. It can do (6) … to a site if used right, but it can also make a site look (7) … if not used (8) …. To simply put it: If you have multimedia content on your website consider flash, if you don't: stay away from it altogether. Flash is more time consuming to develop, and it can take away a lot of important (9) … from your sites like Search Engine Optimization.

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Database – (10) … a database backend to your site can be very useful if you are going to be (11) … a lot of data, or if you are going to be (12) … information often. If you are just simply (13) … a page with your contacts online, I wouldn't recommend using a database backend,

again for the time that it costs to develop and especially for the minor benefit that you will see. On the other hand if you are (14) … all of your products online and you need the ability to update/add/delete products often I wouldn't recommend not (15) … a database and some type of content management.

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Content Management - is most likely used with a database backend in which you will have a control panel that you can use to "(16) … Content". Content that can be (17) … is anything and everything. Sample uses for Content (18) … are: Managing Products (add new and delete/edit existing), News/Journals (if you want the ability to constantly update your site with current news items

or journals), Page Layout (some more advanced Content Management systems allow you to manage all aspects of your site from the layout to the colors).

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