by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Web pages have also become more expressive with the introduction of CSS (Cascading Style Sheets). CSS gives programmers an easy, efficient way to define a web page’s layout and beautify the page with design elements like colors, rounded corners, gradients, and...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Dynamic web pages began with the invention of the scripting language JavaScript. JavaScript support in major web browsers meant that web pages could incorporate more meaningful real-time interactions. For example, if you’ve filled out an online form and hit the...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
Web pages are written in HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the web programming language that tells web browsers how to structure and present content on a web page. In other words, HTML provides the basic building blocks for the web. And for a long time, those building...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
App is shorthand for an application. Applications are also called programs or software. Traditionally, they’ve been designed to do broad, intensive tasks like accounting or word processing. In the online world of web browsers and smart phones, apps are usually nimbler...
by Mary Pat Whaley | Jan 8, 2011 | Definitions
As you sit hunched over your laptop at home watching a YouTube video or using a search engine, you’re actually plugging into the collective power of thousands of computers that serve all this information to you from far-away rooms distributed around the world. It’s...
