Class Exercise 4: Research Website Terms

 

 Internet Website Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text that are used to identify a specific computer, the data stored in a cookie is generated by the visited server, and when the cookie is exchanged between a computer and a network server, the server reads the data inside the cookie and knows what information and advertisements to display to the user (What are Cookies?, 2021).

UI

According to Churchville (2021), User Interface (UI) is the interface that lets a human interact with a system such as: mouse, keyboard, monitor...

 

Page Source

Page Source, in other words "source" or "document source" which is the HTML code or source code of a web page (Definition of page source, 2022).

Meta Tags

Meta tags are part of HTML code that gives information about a website it self. Meta tags are visible on the page source, not the website page. For example, the page title or the description of a web page on web engines search results are displayed thanks to the meta tags (Meta Tag Definition – SEO Glossary | Searchmetrics, 2022).

jQuery

jQuery is a top JavaScript library, it is designed to make things like HTML document traversal and manipulation, event handling, animation, and Ajax much simpler. jQuery changed the way that numerous people write JavaScript as it greatly simplifies it (js.foundation, 2022).

Hyperlinks

A Hyperlink or a web link is an icon, graphic, or text that links to another webpage or another document. Therefore, the (WWW) World Wide Web consist of trillions of hyper links that are connected to each other (Hope, 2021).

Reference List:

•  www.kaspersky.com. 2021. What are Cookies?. [online] Available at: <https://www.kaspersky.com/resource-center/definitions/cookies> [Accessed 20 January 2022].
•  Churchville, F., 2021. What is user interface (UI)? Definition from SearchAppArchitecture. [online] SearchAppArchitecture. Available at: <https://searchapparchitecture.techtarget.com/definition/user-interface-UI> [Accessed 26 January 2022].
•  Searchmetrics. 2022. Meta Tag Definition – SEO Glossary | Searchmetrics. [online] Available at: <https://www.searchmetrics.com/glossary/meta-tag/> [Accessed 26 January 2022].
•  js.foundation, J., 2022. jQuery. [online] Jquery.com. Available at: <https://jquery.com/> [Accessed 26 January 2022].
•  Hope, C., 2021. What is a Hyperlink?. [online] Computerhope.com. Available at: <https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/hyperlink.htm> [Accessed 29 January 2022].