Thursday, 8 March 2018

NETIQUETTES

                             
                              NETIQUETTES

  •            Netiquette, or net etiquette, refers to etiquette on the Internet.  
  •         Is the code of acceptable behaviours users should follow while on the Internet or   online or cyberspace.
  •            It is the conduct expected of individuals while online.
  •            Rules for all aspects of the:
                          =   World Wide Web
                          = E-mail
                          =   Instant Messaging
                          =  Chat rooms
                          =  Newsgroups & message board.
  •        Electronic communication lacks the facial expression, gestures and tone of voice to convey your meaning. It’s easy to misinterpret meaning of words.
  •         Remember, when you communicate through cyberspace your words are written. 
  •         Chances are they're stored somewhere and they can come back and haunt you.
  •         Any message you send could be saved or forwarded by its recipient. You have no control over where it goes. 

                             # Be polite and avoid offensive language
                             # Don't use all in capital letters because it shown you like shouting to others
                             # Do not send spam
                             # Use emoticons to express your emotions.

TYPES OF WEBSITE


                                           TYPE OF WEBSITES


                     

                         ๐Ÿ˜Ž A WEBSITE THAT OFFERS VARIETY OF INTERNET SERVICES.
                         ๐Ÿ˜Ž    Have online communities :
                                   ⇻a web site that joins a specific group of people with similar interests or
                                       relationship.
                         ๐Ÿ˜Ž  Most portals offers these free services:
                                       ⇻  Search engine
                                       ⇻ News
                                       ⇻Sports and weather
                                       ⇻Web publishing








      ➦Contains content that promotes or sells products or services.
      ➦Many of these enterprises also allow you to purchase their products or services online.
      ➦Examples: Pearl Haya Gallery, Anakku brand, Walt Disney Company  and Kraft Brands .











➼An informal website consisting of time-stamped articles, or posts in a diary or journal format.
➼A blog is basically a journal that is available on the web.
➼The activity of updating a blog is “blogging” and someone who keeps a blog is a “blogger.”‘
➼Types of blog :-
       Microblogs = allows user to publish short messages in about 100 characters.
                          = example, TWITTER
       Vlog = a  blog contain vide clip 








➦A collaborative website that allows users to create, add to,modify or delete the web site content via     their web browser.
➦The difference between a wiki and blog is that users cannot modify original posts made by the              blogger.
➦Visitors can also create new content and change the organization of existing content.
 ➦The simplest wiki programs allow editing of text and hyperlinks only.
➦More advanced wikis make it possible to add or change images, tables, and certain interactive components such as games.









             ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORK

๐Ÿ’€Encourages members in its online community to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music       and videos with other registered user.
๐Ÿ’€Examples: Facebook, MySpace
๐Ÿ’€A media sharing web site
              - a specific type of online social network that enables members to share media such as                             photos, music and videos.





Thursday, 1 March 2018

INTERNET SERVICES

                
                  INTERNET SERVICES

There have 6 types of internet services:

- world wide web (www)
- e-mail
- instant messaging
- message board
- VoIP
- FTP

                                 world wide web (www) 

•The World Wide Web (WWW), or Web, consists of a worldwide collection of electronic documents.

•Each electronic document on the Web is called a Web page which can contain text,
 graphics, animation, audio, and video.
•Some web pages are static (fixed); others are dynamic (changing).
•Visitors to a static web page see all  the same content.
•Visitors to a dynamic web page, can customize some or all of the viewed content such as
  desired stock quotes, weather for a region or ticket availability for flights.


                                                                        E-MAIL 
•The transmission of messages and files via a computer network
•An e-mail address is a unique name that consists of a user name and domain name that identifies the user.
•Basic form of an email address is:
• username@hostname.subdomain.domain
    Example:  amir@gmail.com
•A user name is a unique combination of characters, such as letters of the alphabet and/or numbers, that identifies a specific user.
•User name must be different from the other user names in the same domain.


                                              INSTANT MESSAGING




๐Ÿ‘‰A real-time Internet communications service that notifies you when one or more people are online and allows you to exchange messages or files or join a private chat room with them.
๐Ÿ‘‰Real time means that you and the people with whom you are conversing are online at the same time. 

                                VOICE OVER INTERNET PROTOCOL (VOIP)


๐Ÿ‘‰Voice over Internet Protocol, a technology for making telephone calls over the Internet in which speech sounds are converted into binary data. 
๐Ÿ‘‰To place an Internet telephone call, you need:
๐Ÿ‘‰ high-speed Internet connection (such as DSL or Cable Modem),
                       -Internet telephone service,
                       - microphone or telephone
                       -internet telephone software or VoIP router.
๐Ÿ‘‰VoIP services are also available on some mobile services that have wireless Internet service.


                                                           MESSAGE BOARD



→Type of discussion group.

→Many web sites use message boards because they are easier to use.

→Also known as discussion group, discussion forum and online forum.

→A general term for any online "bulletin board" where you can leave and expect to see responses to messages you have left. 

→A popular Web-based type of discussion group that does not require a newsreader


                   
                                                        FILE TRANSFER PROTOCOL



→ Is an Internet standard that permits file uploading and downloading with other
     computers on the Internet.
→ A standard for the exchange of program and data files across a network.
→ Uploading is the process of transferring documents, graphics and other objects from your
     computer to a server on the internet.
→ FTP is one method, users have to transfer webpages files from their local machine to the server. 
→ An FTP server is a computer that allows users to upload and/or download file using FTP.
→FileZilla is an FTP program for file uploading and downloading to and from your FTP site,
    server  or host.





WEB SEARCHING

WEB SEARCHING


Two types of search tools:

 SEARCH ENGINE    ⏩   find information related to a specific topic
(KEYWORD SEARCH)

SUBJECT DIRECTORY  ⏩  classifies web pages in an organized set of   (DIRECTORY SEARCH)    categories


   SEARCH ENGINE





➧ —Helpful in locating information for which you do not know an
  exact Web address or are not seeking a particular Web site. 
➧ A program that searches documents for specified keywords and
  returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
➧ Requires the users to enter a word or phrase, called search text
  or search query.
➧ Each word of the search text is known as keyword.
 ➧Result of the search is called hits
 ➧Result from the search engine can be in the form of : 
 ✔web pages
 ✔articles
 ✔images
 ✔audio
 ✔video and etc
➧ Other techniques you can use to improve your searches include the following:
 ❤Use specific nouns.
 ❤Put the most important terms first in the search text.
 ❤List all possible spellings, for example, email, e-mail.
 ❤Before using a search engine, read its Help information.
 ❤If the search is unsuccessful with one search engine, try another.



SUBJECT DIRECTORY







•Classifies Web pages in an organized set of categories such as sport or shopping and related subcategories.
•A subject directory provides categorized lists of links arranged by subject
• When click on the category link, the subject directory displays a list of subcategory links
• The disadvantage – users have difficulty deciding which categories to choose as the menus of links presented


Thursday, 1 February 2018

WEB PAGE NAVIGATION

       
WEB PAGE NAVIGATION

๐Ÿ‘‰ most web pages contain hypertext or hypermedia links.

       Hypertext                          Hypermedia       
      ➽links in text-based               ➽ combines text-based                 documents                      links with graphic,audio                                              and video links.  


                          TABBED BROWSING


     ๐Ÿ‘‰  tabbed browsing allows you to open and view multiple web            pages in a single web browser windows.    

               

WEB ADDRESS


                                            

                            WHAT IS WEB ADDRESS????



⇒ Every computer connected to the internet has its unique web address, without which it cannot be reached by other computers.

⇒ Also called universal resource locator or Uniform Resource Locator (URL).


⇒ A URL is mainly used to point to a webpage, a component of a webpage or a program on a         website. The resource name consists of:

⇒ A domain name identifying a server or the web service; and
⇒ A program name or a path to the file on the server.

       WEB ADDRESS CONSISTS OF:- 
                 
               - protocol
               - domain name
               - path
               - web page name












WEB BROWSER


                                   
                                  WEB BROWSER

 1.    WEB PAGE                          - electronic document on web page   
                                                        - static (fixed) : a fixed web page where all visitors seen                                                                                     the same contents.                         
                                                         - dynamic (changing) : a web page that allows visitors to                                                                                             customize some of all the viewed                                                                                               contents.  

 2.      WEB SITE                                   -   a collection of related web page   
  
 3.       WORLD WIDE WEB (WWW)     -  a collection of web site                  

 4.       WEB SERVER                            - the location to store web site