COMM 260, Principles of Internet Web-Based Design
Instructor: Ross Collins
Midterm Review: COMM 260, Principles of Internet Web-Based Design
Exam will cover Chapman and Chapman textbook chapters 1-4, 11, and Appendix A; lecture synopses,Tim Berners-Lee reserve reading, and linked reading from class web site. Some simple HTML tags and CSS rules based on class exercises will be included: review HTML and CSS class exercises and memorize these tags and rules! Questions below represent topics on the midterm, but not (in most cases) actual questions. The exam will be mostly multiple-choice, but will ask you to write or debug brief sections of HTML and CSS.
1. What connection does Tim Berners-Lee have to development of the World Wide Web?
2. Where did Berners-Lee work?
3. What are three common professional backgrounds of web designers?
4. What are three common reasons for launching a web site?
5. What is branding as it relates to web sites?
6. Name three ways to help make a web site pay for itself.
7. What is a site map?
8. What is a browser plug-in?
9. What is a cookie?
10. What is a domain name?
11. Name two major reasons that writing material for the web is different than writing for print.
12. What is navigation as it relates to the web?
13. Why might a webmaster use a sequential architecture for web design?
14. What are splash screens?
15. Name three recommended best practices for web writing.
16. What was ARPANET?
17. What is a porous web site?
18. Why use a META tag?
19. HTML: what tag is used to insert a hyperlink?
20. HTML: what tag is used to insert an image?
21. What does this CSS code mean?
p.samplerule
{
font-family: 'gil sans' , arial; font-size: 20px; color: midnightblue; font-variant: small-caps;
}
22. How would you indicate you want this CSS evoked in an HTML page?
23. What is a "class" and "pseudo-class" in CSS? Give an example.
24. The code reads:
<body bgcolor="#FFCCFF">
<h3><center>
<font face="arial, sans-serif">Churchill on Learning</font>
</center>
</h3>
<hr size="4">
<p>
<font face="arial, sans-serif" size="-1">"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."</font><br>
<font face="arial, sans-serif" size="-2">
Is this HTML or CSS, and how can you tell the difference?