Task 1
Advantages of websites
The advantages of using the websites to find out the information are that the websites are mostly updated at least every day where as the books get updated very year or so. The other advantages of using the websites rather than paper base search is that the internet is available 24 hours a day where as the Libraries only open on certain times and also if you want to find out the latest news you have to wait till next day, and dread it from the news papers where as you can check the latest news on the internet as soon as it happened.
I prefer Internet to the paper based resources even if the Internet cost more money than books and newspapers. Internet can have images, writing, sounds, videos and all the other sort of attractive things where as the news papers and books can only have images and writing.
The paper base resources like books, which are linear media. The linear media is that user has to go through each page before the user can get to his destination.
The Internet is hyper media, and the user can go on the required page by clicking on the link. This is another advantage of using the Internet instead of books.
Internet/Intranet connections
There are some Internet and Intranet connections; I will discuss the main connections that are most used by the users.
ISDN
ISDN stands for "Integrated Services Digital Network" is a type of circuit switched Telephone network system, designed to allow digital transmission of voice and data over ordinary telephone copper wires,
In a videoconference, ISDN provides simultaneous voice, video, and text transmission between individual desktop videoconferencing systems and group (room) videoconferencing systems.
* H0=384 kb/s (6 B channels)
* H10=1472 kb/s (23 B channels)
* H11=1536 kb/s (24 B channels)
* H12=1920 kb/s (30 B channels) - International (E1) only
This type of Internet connection is expensive but it is very fast and good for business companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide.
For conventional ADSL, downstream rates start at 256 kbit/s and typically reach 8 Mbit/s within 1.5 km (5000 ft) of the DSLAM equipped central office or remote terminal. Upstream rates start at 64 kbit/s and typically reach 256 kbit/s but can go as high as 1024 ...
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This type of Internet connection is expensive but it is very fast and good for business companies.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN
ADSL
Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line (ADSL) is a form of DSL, a data communications technology that enables faster data transmission over copper telephone lines than a conventional modem can provide.
For conventional ADSL, downstream rates start at 256 kbit/s and typically reach 8 Mbit/s within 1.5 km (5000 ft) of the DSLAM equipped central office or remote terminal. Upstream rates start at 64 kbit/s and typically reach 256 kbit/s but can go as high as 1024 kbit/s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADSL
DSL
Digital Subscriber Line, or DSL, is a family of technologies that provide digital data transmission over the wires of a local telephone network.
This sort of Internet connection contains the speed limit from 128 (kbit/s) to 24,000 (kbit/s) depending on the DSL technology and service level implemented.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL#DSL_technologies
Wireless
Wireless is an old-fashioned term for a radio receiver, referring to its use as a wireless telegraph; now the term is used to describe modern wireless connections such as in cellular networks and wireless broadband Internet.
This is a method of communication that uses low powered radio waves to transmit data between devices. This sort of connection is used by lot of new technology communicating services, such as Mobile Phone Bluetooth.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless
T1
T1 (Transmission Level 1) is basically a connection that is used to connect more than 25 on the Phone at 1 time and it can transmit data at perhaps 30 kilobits per second (30,000 bits per second).
The phone company moves nearly all voice traffic as digital rather than analogue signals. Your analogue line gets converted to a digital signal by sampling it 8,000 times per second at 8-bit resolution (64,000 bits per second). Nearly all digital data now flows over fiber optic lines, and the phone company uses different designations to talk about the capacity of a fiber optic line.
http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question372.htm
Satellite
A satellite is any object that orbits another object. All masses that are part of the solar system, including the Earth, are satellites either of the Sun, or satellites of those objects, such as the moon.
Hradware and Software Requirements
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Plan for promotional provision
This is basically how to promote the successful websites. The website must have a good layout and user interface to increase the sell or to make more people visit the website. The fewer mouse clicks to find the information and easy to use can also help promote the website.
The owner website promoter should also use easy to remember and quick typing domain name and make sure that the domain name is related to website. This is 1 of the main reasons that the websites fail to attract or sell products because of the domain name.
The promoter should make sure that he/she their website refreshes at least once a day not once a week or month. The promoter should use Meta tags that can only go into head section of the website and that is only used for pure information.
The promoter should also submit their website on search engines of like, google and yahoo and also should use meaning full names that are related to website to increase the website entry rank.
There are some other ways to promote the websites between the people, and one of them is Link/Banner exchange. The promoter should exchange his/her hyperlinks with some body, so that the people who visit other website might visit your website if you have exchanged the hyperlinks.
This way of promoting websites will not work with all the promoters, because if both website promoters are selling or providing same sort of information than they will obviously will not exchange the websites links. The example of this like, two companies that are selling computers will not exchange the website links because it can affect both of their businesses or one of their businesses. This way of promoting will also not work if one website is for children uses and the other website is about adultery. It will also not work for the websites promoters exchanging the websites if they are not at it standard in marketing, like one of the famous companies will not exchange their hyperlinks with a company that is only known in their town.
The most successful websites nowadays are those have any sort of feedback, so the user's of website can give their opinions on the website and are if the user's opinions are displayed on the websites so that the other users can read the public comments, then will also get the users faith in using websites. The example for this is like, eBay website. When the users buy products on the website than the buyer can leave his comments on the website. This will satisfy the other users and they will be using this website to buy or sell their products more constantly.
There are some other ways of promoting websites as well, for instant if the user visits your website you might want to put some sort of games of the website and divert his attention to keep the user on the website for the longer period of time and then if the user finds the website interesting then he/she might want to visit again.
There are some other ways of advertising or promoting the websites and they like, adverts on TV and radio, newspapers, leaflets and magazines.
Conclusion
All the websites are different and to promote an individual website the better feedback system is required and constant monitoring of web static and acting on them.
Technologies
JavaScript
JavaScript is a script language - a system of programming codes, created by Netscape that can be embedded into the HTML of a web page to add functionality. JavaScript should not be confused with the Java programming language. In general, script languages such as JavaScript are easier and faster to code than more structured languages such as Java and C++. Examples of JavaScript use in web site development.
Java Applets
These are full self-contained programs that can be embedded in a web page or stand-alone. In spite of all the press, Java has not yet matured. While suitable for very small self-contained applets, it tends to be slow and does not have good support for platform-specific functions such as saving files or printing. In addition, Java interpreters are not available on all platforms and don't always agree about what they consider proper code.
Applets are used to provide interactive features to web applications that cannot be provided by HTML. They are executed in a sandbox by most web browsers, preventing them from accessing local data. The code of the applet is downloaded from a web server and the browser either embeds the applet into a web page or opens a new window showing the applet's user interface. The applet can be displayed on the web page by making use of the deprecated APPLET HTML element, or the recommended OBJECT element. This specifies the applet's source and the applet's location statistics. The applet's location cannot be controlled by Cascading Style Sheets.
XML
XML (Extensible Mark up Language) is a W3C initiative that allows information and services to be encoded with meaningful structure and semantics those computers and humans can understand. XML is great for information exchange, and can easily be extended to include user-specified and industry-specified tags.
Amjad Qazi Task 1 Paul Henry
