Week 1 Exercise

- Name as many web browsers as I know -

Mozilla Firefox, Internet explorer, Safari, Opera, Google chrome

- What are browser wars -

Browser wars are basically the competitions for dominance over the web browser marketplace between two or more web browsers. Internet explorer is still currently dominant but is now challenged by the recently erected browsers like mozilla and recently google chrome which are attracting a wide audience.

- What is an IP address -

IP address also known as Internet Protocol address is a series of numbers that are assigned to devices within a computer network using the internet protocol as means of communication. It is supposedly stored as binary numbers but is shown in simple forms such as 216.55.66.123 for easy reading. It acts as an “address” of sorts for the the device it’s assigned to, similar to how we have our own home addresses.

- What is a URL -

From what I know, URL basically refers to the web address. In long it stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It consists the following items in one coherent hierarchical path, namely the resource type for example “http”, a registered domain name, the port number, the pathname of a file or program that will show on the site, query string, and for html files, an anchor to allow the specific page to be viewed.

I hope I’m not wrong in what I’m about to try next but I’ll try to decipher an example using the current address of the page I’m on now “http://vilavoluntas.wordpress.com/wp-admin/post.php?action=edit&post=3&message=6″

http = resource type

domain name = vilavoluntas.wordpress.com

port number = not exactly sure cause I don’t see numbers

pathname = post.php?

query string & anchor = action=edit&post=3&message=6

(hope I am sort of right)

- What makes a good website -

A good website usually starts with it’s visitors/viewers or basically the audience it’s trying to attract in my opinion. This is because one website could be considered good by someone but then again considered bad by another because it doesn’t provide the information that the audience is trying to seek for. However this is just based on the information part.

Then again a good website should probably be one that is simple yet fancy, have easy navigational assets as well as a user-friendly interface. Too much graphics could firstly make it “over-fanciful” and hard to look at and secondly it could affect navigation as well if there were too much graphics and in the worst case, they look like the buttons being used for navigation.

I also do feel that beside being user-friendly, especially for sites which contain large amount of text, good typography could be another factor.

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