Web Site Extras Web sites are increasingly sophisticated and complicated and can have many features and functions. MEMORANDUM TO: Jim Prain, Web Site Assistant FROM: Joan Kelly Please make the following additions to our Joosey Juice Web site. 1. A CGI form specifically for buyers of Joosey Juice to report their product satisfaction to us. Make the form an easy-to-use survey with no more than four questions. 2. A guest book so that our Web site visitors can enter their comments about the site. 3. A Web cam transmission from the factory so that Web visitors can see live shots of Joosey Juice being made and bottled. 4. An e-mail link on every page so that users can click and have our e-mail address entered automatically in an e-mail message from them to us.
WHAT DO YOU KNOW? Circle T or F to indicate whether each of the following sentences is true or false. Use the context clues in the preceding memo to help you decide.Q1 |
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1. A CGI form is something users can complete on the Internet and then submit to the site owner. |
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| True. A CGI form is a form. CGI forms can be various types of formssurveys, quizzes, polls, order forms, and so on. |
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2. A guest book on a Web site is very similar to a guest book at an open house or other event. |
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| True. A guest book is a guest book. |
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3. A Web cam is an automated function that makes a Web site operate properly. |
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| False. A Web cam is a camera connected to a Web page. |
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4. E-mail links make communicating with the owners or managers of a Web site more convenient for users. |
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| True. Many businesses put e-mail links on each page of their site so that visitors can contact them easily. |
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TERMS RELATED TO WEB SITE EXTRAS CGI form a form on a Web page that Internet users can fill in and that is then sent to the owner of the Web site or some other designated recipient. When you complete a guest book or a survey on the Internet, you are often filling in a CGI form. CGI is an acronym for Common Gateway Interface.guest book a particular type of CGI form that users complete to say they've visited a site and leave commentse-mail link a link on a Web page that opens a user's message composition window with the recipient's address already entered.Web cam a camera that is linked to a Web site in such a way that the site's visitors can see what the camera is viewing. Some Web cams are "live," that is, continuously refreshing; others refresh every few seconds. |
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