Week 3 Evolution of the Web

1. Today, do more people access the web using computers or mobile devices? Provide a resource that supports your answer.

 

Sources and studies have found that the web is accessed more regularly through computers, it would not be wrong to assume that this is so because there are so many apps on phones, most time spent on them is with texting and taking pictures while computers are typically ONLY used for the web. (https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/mobile-desktop-internet-usage-statistics)

2 . Who controls the World Wide Web? What is it made up of?

No one person ‘controls’ the World Wide web, but several companies help mandate it. (https://hbr.org/2016/06/who-controls-the-internet)

3. Who is Tim Berners Lee? What is he best known for?
Tim Berners-Lee is the creator of the World Wide Web, creating it back in 1989.

4. What is a blog? What is it used for?

A blog is a digital/online journal, typically used to spread information about a single topic, ran by an individual, group, or company.

5. What is a “responsive” website design?

A responsive web design is a design that is compatible among multiple devices, switching page sizes to be compatible with phones, tablets, and computers.

6. Why are “responsive” website designs necessary?

Responsive website designs are necessary for compatibility; it allows more people who lack certain devices typically necessary to view the website to be able to use it.

7. What is SEO, and why should website owners/managers be concerned with SEO?

SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization, meaning that it makes web traffic/the website you are using more efficient in it’s speed and it’s quality.

8. What is dynamic content?

Dynamic content is any optimization changes that the user wants to make to a site for their personal preferences, their data, and their behavior.

9. What is a content management system? You work with one, what is it’s name?

A content management system is any software that helps to create, manage and code websites.

10. What is a youtube channel? Who might want to start one?

A youtube channel is someones personal account on youtube, made for uploading, liking videos, and subscribing to other peoples channels. A person might start one as a career, a personal blog, a way to boost their career, and many other reasons.

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