Website Design and Development

WEBSITE DESIGN AND
DEVELOPMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LO 1.................................................................................................................................................1
P 1 Purpose and types of DNS, including explanations on ways in which domain names are
organised and managed................................................................................................................1
P 2 Explanation of purpose and relationships between communication protocols, server
hardware, operating systems and web server software with regards to designing, publishing
and accessing a website...............................................................................................................2
LO 2.................................................................................................................................................3
P 3 Discussion of capabilities and relationships between front-end and back-end website
technologies and explain of ways in which these relate to presentation and application layers. 3
P 4 Differences between online website creation tools and custom-built sites...........................4
LO 3.................................................................................................................................................6
P 5 Creation of design document.................................................................................................6
P 6 Using design document with appropriate principles, standards and guidelines to produce a
branded, multipage website supported with realistic content......................................................8
LO 4.................................................................................................................................................9
P 7 Create a suitable Test Plan identifying key performance area..............................................9
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11

INTRODUCTION
In advancement of modern technology that will support the increasing demand of virtual
tour websites in the global marketplace (Crawford and Hussain, 2017). This documentation is
mainly focused on the designing for Virtual websites which provide various kinds of facilities
and services. Sometimes, it allows for better user interface and experience. Main purpose of this
virtual tour based website is to manage or control the functionality. There are different kinds of
methods or techniques used for developing an appropriate website. Afterwards, it will analyse
the overall performance of the website. This report will discuss the purpose, type of DNS in
order to manage the various domains. It will describe the relationship between multiple
communication protocols with hardware, software in accessing virtual based websites.
Furthermore, it will discuss the backend, front end developer to handle functionality of the
website. However, it will test the designing and create documentation to find out the
effectiveness in the website accessing.
LO 1
P 1 Purpose and types of DNS, including explanations on ways in which domain names are
organised and managed.
DNS stands for Domain name server whose main function is to translate domain name
into IP Address that can be understood by computer (Afroz and et. al., 2018). It further helps in
providing list of mail server that helps in accepting Emails for each domain name. it is a kind of
protocol that uses TCP/IP protocol set or it can also be said that it is a kind of system that
matches names with numbers like phonebook does.
DNS Hierarchy
DNS uses hierarchy in order to manage its distributed database system. DNS system has
a single tree at the top of structure which is known as root domain. Dot is a designation of root
domain. Some of the most common top-level DNS domains and the types of organizations that
use them are: .com, .edu, .gov, .mil, .org, .net, and .int.
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There are many different kinds of DNS servers, some of the main type of DNS servers
are as follows:
 Resolver: it is first type of DNS query that acts as a middle link between DNS name server
and client. It helps in sending DNS query from client as a recursive resolver so that it can
bring back cached data if it is available in catch and if it is not available in catch then it sent a
request to root name server then to top level domain name server and then lastly to
Authoritative name server (Sabanovic, Saracevic and Dzemic, 2018). So it can be said that
main purpose of this DNS is to find website in its catch.
 Iterative: it is kind of DNS query that query for information on website. Users enter website
they are trying to find. Resolver provide answer from catch and iterative DNS query helps in
finding answers on website by returning address of DNS server.
 Root server: It is a kind of server for DNS records whose main purpose is to translate domain
name into an IP address (Flemmings, 2018). All the request made in DNS root zone are
answered. Another main purpose of this server is to divert other request made to Top level
domain name server.
 Top level domain name server: it mainly refers to last part of domain name (part after dot). It
is categorized into two parts: first is country ID and second is industry TLD. It is the highest
level of domain name in DNS root zone. It is the last section of domain name whose main
purpose is to take care of internet assigned number authorities.
 Authoritative name server: main purpose of this server is to answer original DNS query. It
provides answers to recursive DNS nameserver with website IP mapping.
URLs: it is the main address of the website which typed by users in address bar of browser.
Each website has a unique URL that cannot be shared by other websites (Asih and et. al,. 2019).
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