Web Programming Lecture 2
Intro
- Motive to build a website
- Groups to be formed for projects (20M)
- Clients Requirements of the website
- connection from client’s user base to database
Content
Types of websites
Static websites
They have a static web design that doesn’t change throughout its lifetime. Can be coded via solely on HTML.
Responsive Websites
A responsive website fits in any screen. It can transform according to any kind of viewport height and width.
Dynamic Websites
Dynamic websites have a design that changes throughout its life.
Other Topics
Web Server definition
A web server that processes the GET and POST requests for the users so they can request and access data and vice versa.
Website versus Web Server
A website is a collection of web pages that are rendered on a computer to interact with the web server. It may or may not have a backend processing script.
On the contrary a web server is what the web pages are on. It is the processor that runs the hosting and the processing of the back end. It is what accepts the requests.
Steps in handling a client request
- Initiation
- In this step the user usually clicks somewhere that triggers a request.
- Creation : HTTP