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What Is AJAX?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, AJAX is a group of web technologies used to allow webpages to be updated asynchronously by working behind the scenes to exchange data with a web server.

What Is Website Defacement?

Difficulty: Medium

Website defacement is a type of website attack that involves a hacker finding a way to modify the files or contents of a website without the owner's permission.

What Is A Favicon?

Difficulty: Medium

A favicon, also known as a shortcut icon, tab icon, website icon, or bookmark icon, is a small icon associated with a website or webpage that is displayed in the address bar...

What Is User-Generated Content?

Difficulty: Medium

User-generated content, also known as user-created content, or UGC, refers to any content that has been provided to a website by users rather than the webmaster.

What Is A Blog?

Difficulty: Easy

A blog is an informational website regularly updated by an individual or small group of individuals that is published on the internet for anyone to read.

What Is Cross-Site Scripting?

Difficulty: Medium

Cross-site scripting, also known as XSS, is a type of website vulnerability that allows an attacker to inject malicious client-side scripts into a webpage for users.

What Is A Website Conversion?

Difficulty: Medium

A website conversion occurs when a user performs a desired action on a website, such as filling out a contact form, purchasing a product, signing up for a newsletter, or sharing a post on social media.

What Is A Cookie Policy?

Difficulty: Medium

A cookie policy is a document stating all the active cookies and trackers a website uses along with their purposes, technical details, how to opt out, what they track...

What Is A Website Privacy Policy?

Difficulty: Medium

A website privacy policy is a legal document disclosing the ways a website collects, stores, uses, protects, and handles personal user data.

What Is A Website Terms Of Use?

Difficulty: Easy

A website terms of use, also known as a terms of service, terms and conditions, or a ToS, is a legal document that contains the rules, regulations, and liability disclaimers of a website that apply to all visitors.

What Is A Hit?

Difficulty: Medium

On a web server, a hit is a request to a file or a resource. It could be a HTML file, image, JavaScript file, CSS file, video, or anything else.

What Is Website Speed?

Difficulty: Medium

Website speed refers to how quickly the pages of a website load in a visitor's web browser. A website with a fast page speed will load pages quicker...

What Is A Contact Page?

Difficulty: Easy

A contact page is a webpage that allows visitors to communicate with the individual or company that owns or maintains the website.

What Is A Homepage?

Difficulty: Easy

A homepage, also known as a main page, welcome page, landing page, or front page is the main page of a website that users see when they first visit it.

What Is A Dynamic Website?

Difficulty: Medium

A dynamic website is one that has content that automatically changes each time it is accessed without the webmaster having to manually update it.

What Is A Static Website?

Difficulty: Medium

A static website, also known as a stationary website, or a flat website is one that delivers the same content each time it is viewed and is delivered exactly as stored, regardless of the identity of the user or other factors.

What Is The Alt Attribute?

Difficulty: Medium

Short for the alternative attribute, the alt attribute is a HTML element used to specify the alternative text that will display when an image fails to load.

What Is Web Content?

Difficulty: Easy

Web content is the text, audio, or visual content that is published on a website. This is the most important part of a website as without...

What Is A Hyperlink?

Difficulty: Easy

A hyperlink is an embedded link in a HTML document that contains a reference to another URL, file, or portion of a document that is accessible by clicking on it.

What Is PHP?

Difficulty: Medium

PHP is a widely used server-side scripting language that is embedded in HTML pages and used in web development. PHP is often used to create dynamic content, interact with databases, and perform calculations.

What Is A Sitemap?

Difficulty: Medium

A sitemap, also spelt as site map, is an illustration, drawing, or HTML file, that presents a hierarchical view of the pages of a website used to help visitors find what they are looking for.

What Is Full-Stack Development?

Difficulty: Medium

Full-stack development is a category of web development that refers to the work involved in creating, developing, building, and maintaining both the backend and frontend of a website, which basically means the entirety of a website...

What Is Backend Development?

Difficulty: Medium

Backend development, also known as server-side development, is a category of web development that refers to the work involved in creating, developing, building, and maintaining what users do not see on a website.

What Is JavaScript?

Difficulty: Medium

JavaScript is a client-side programming language used to create interactive effects and dynamic elements within web browsers. It was invented by Brendan Eich in 1995 whilst...

What Is HTML?

Difficulty: Medium

Stands for Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is the standard and most widely used markup language on the World Wide Web, used to achieve font, colour, graphics, and hyperlinks.

What Is A Webpage?

Difficulty: Easy

A webpage, also spelt as web page, is a single HTML document that makes up a website on the World Wide Web and is viewed in a web browser.

What Is Web Development?

Difficulty: Easy

Web development, also known as website development, refers to the process of creating, building, and maintaining websites for the World Wide Web or an intranet that is hosted on a server.

What Is A Webmaster?

Difficulty: Easy

A webmaster is a person or a group of people that own or maintain a certain website. They are responsible for responding to any questions about the website, creating and updating the content, and monitoring the search performance...

What Is A Web Developer?

Difficulty: Easy

A web developer is a person that builds and develops websites for individuals and companies using markup and programming languages, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP.

What Is A Website?

Difficulty: Easy

A website, also known as a site, is a collection of publicly accessible, related webpages held together under one domain name that have been published and maintained by an individual or organisation...