Web Foundations/Servers and Data



This lesson introduces servers and data.

Objectives and Skills
Objectives and skills for this lesson include:
 * Identify technologies for enhancing the user's Web experience, including programming languages, multimedia technologies.
 * Demonstrate knowledge of languages commonly used to provide database connectivity to Web sites.
 * Identify common strategies for managing an end user's experience and improving site creativity.
 * Test and analyze Web site performance issues.

Readings

 * 1)  Web server
 * 2)  Web application development
 * 3)  Ajax (programming)

Key Terms

 * 3-D Secure
 * Ajax
 * application cache
 * Application Programming Interface (API)
 * bandwidth
 * client
 * cookie
 * emulator
 * mailing list server
 * manifest
 * object-based
 * offline Web application
 * Smalltalk
 * Structured Query Language (SQL)
 * Web application framework
 * XMLHttpRequest