5. E-Commerce Website Design Programming Languages Definitions

This blog post introduces and defines some of the essential components of a ecommerce website design programming languages.

Internet website cookies

 A minature text file downloaded by a web server on to a user's device. It allows the websites to store user's information and preferences which can be fetched later to continue what the users were doing before (Hormozi, 2005). Similar to an auto-save funtion in a video game or resume watching on Netflix.

User Interface (UI)

The layout of an application, looks and its overall style. UI is primarily the user's direct interaction with a computer, website, or product. User interface design makes the user's experience intuitive and effortless so that they can achieve the best possible engagement (Wix, 2023).

Page Source

The text and HTML tags that is interpreted by a browser to display a webpage (Brain, 2000).

Meta Tags

The <meta> tag defines data in a  HTML document which is interpreted by the browser to display the content correctly (w3schools, 2023).

jQuery

jQuery is a versatile JavaScript library with rich features to simplify HTML, event handling, animation and Ajax API (JS Foundation, 2019).

Hyperlinks

A icon, graphic or text that is linked to another website, webpage or file (Computer Hope, 2022).

HTML

Hyper text Markup Language (HTML) defines the structure of a webpage and it's content which 

contains of several elements (mozilla.org, 2019).

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) states how HTML elements  are displayed and can control multiple web pages through a stylesheet (W3schools, 2019).

Javascript  

It is a scripting language that enables interactive/animated content on the web pages (Mozilla, 2019).

Python

A interpreted high-level programming language that aims to boost productivity through dynamic typing. Python has simple syntax which makes it ideal for rapid scripting/prototyping. It has a huge community with wide range of modules and packages based in multiple platforms (Python Software Foundation, 2019).

Ruby

It is a  versatile language that can be modified according to the developer. Functionality of core language features can be added or removed and can also be used on multiple platforms (Codeacademy, 2021).

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References

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Codeacademy (2021). What is Ruby used for? [online] Codecademy News. Available at: https://www.codecademy.com/resources/blog/what-is-ruby-used-for/ [Accessed 14 Feb. 2023].

Computer Hope (2022). What is a Hyperlink? [online] www.computerhope.com. Available at: https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/h/hyperlink.htm [Accessed 29 Jan. 2023].

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JS Foundation (2019). jQuery. [online] Jquery.com. Available at: https://jquery.com/ [Accessed 29 Jan. 2023].

Mozilla (2019). What is JavaScript? [online] MDN Web Docs. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/JavaScript/First_steps/What_is_JavaScript [Accessed 14 Feb. 2023].

mozilla.org (2019). HTML basics. [online] MDN Web Docs. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Getting_started_with_the_web/HTML_basics [Accessed 12 Feb. 2023].

Python Software Foundation (2019). What is Python? Executive Summary. [online] Python.org. Available at: https://www.python.org/doc/essays/blurb/ [Accessed 14 Feb. 2023].

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w3schools (2023). HTML meta tag. [online] W3schools.com. Available at: https://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_meta.asp [Accessed 29 Jan. 2023].

Wix (2023). What is User Interface (UI)? UI Definition. [online] Wix. Available at: https://www.wix.com/encyclopedia/definition/user-interface-ui [Accessed 26 Jan. 2023].

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