Web Design Midterm Study Guide

___ in a wireframe is an area on the page that is intentionally left blank

Active white space

_____ in a wireframe is an area on the page that is intentionally left blank.

Active white space

​It helps to balance the design of an asymmetrical page.

Active white space

_____ is a popular WYSIWYG editor used by many people and businesses around the world for web development.

Adobe Dreamweaver

​It is a combination of web technologies, such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), and JavaScript to create interactive and dynamic webpage content.

Dynamic Hypertext Markup language (DHTML)

Mark is given the responsibility of setting up a method for distributing information at the university where he works. ​Mark's assignment changes and he needs to develop a solution for the finance office at the university. He will need to allow vendors to submit their bills online and to check if the university has paid their bills. Which of the following technologies is the best choice for him?

Extranet

Cloud computing is a term used to describe the ever-growing number of devices connecting to a network, including televisions and appliances.

False

File transfer protocol (FTP) associates an internet protocol (IP) address with a domain name.

False

Only images can serve as hyperlinks.

False

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) script which is processed at the server results in an HTML webpage that is sent back to the client.

False

The World Wide Web uses a hierarchical structure, so that users can navigate among webpages in any order they choose.

False

The best practice is to apply an inline style sheet when one wants to change the style of one page.

False

The convention for HTML5 is to use all uppercase tags to conform to the current World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard.

False

The tasks internet protocol (IP) performs are similar to those workers or machines perform when handling a bundle of packages in a post office.

False

When a style is changed in an embedded stylesheet, it automatically applies the change to every page linked to that style sheet.

False

​The color code for white in the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) notation is rgb(0,0,0).

False

​The convention for HTML5 is to use all uppercase tags to conform to the current World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) standard.

False

​The justify value of the text-align property is used to center content within an element.

False

​The sides of the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) box model is referred to in counter clockwise order: left, right, bottom, and top.

False

​The nav element is used to group inline elements.

False; <span> groups inline elements.

Mark and Sebastian are building a new e-commerce site. Their goal is to focus on customers' needs and to gain popularity among their competitors. ​They built a website that provides an optimal viewing experience across a wide range of devices. Identify the website design that has been used by Mark and Sebastian.

Responsive design

_____ allows to create one website that provides an optimal viewing experience across a range of devices.

Responsive design

Tapping or clicking a _________ allows one to move quickly from one webpage to another without being concerned about where the webpages reside

hyperlink

A _____ website structure is appropriate if visitors should view the webpages in a specific order, as in the case of training material in which users need to complete Training module 1 before attempting Training module 2.

linear

​An external style sheet is also called a(n) _____ style sheet.

linked

A(n) _____ is any device, such as a computer, tablet, or smartphone, connected to a network

node

​To create a class selector, the style rule should begin with a _____ followed by the class attribute value.

period (as in .class)

​A _____ is a set of rules that defines how a client workstation can communicate with a server.

protocol

A file transfer protocol (FTP) provides certain mechanisms to view a webpage.

False

A webbed website structure connects webpages in a straight line.

False

A webpage is a related collection of websites created and maintained by a person, company, educational institution, or other organizations.

False

Active white spaces in a wireframe help a user to focus on one part of the page.

False

​It is the host computer that stores resources and files for websites.

server

A _____ is a planning tool that lists or displays all the pages on a website and indicates how they are related to each other.

site map

​A _____ is a rule that defines the appearance of an element on a webpage

style

The four values of left (the default), center, right, or justify are used by the _____ property.

text-align

​​The world's largest network is _____.

the Internet

A _____ is a planning tool that lists or displays all the pages on a website and indicates how they are related to each other

Site map

​Microsoft Word has a Save As Web Page option that converts a document into a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file by automatically adding HTML tags to the document.

True

​With the Internet Explorer versions 9 through 11, using the display property with a value of "block" ensures the main element will be displayed consistently as a block.

True

An example of a _____ present in a browser is http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/index.html.

URL

A(n) _____ is the address of a document or other file accessible on the Internet.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

​To access a website using a browser, one must type the webpage's _____ in the browser's address bar.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)

​This is standard for HTML5 pages and is the preferred encoding standard for email and other applications.

Unicode Transformation Format (UTF)

This develops and maintains web standards, language specifications, and accessibility recommendations.

World Wide Web Consirtum (W3C)

The _____ develops and maintains web standards, language specifications, and accessibility recommendations.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

A web _____ is a program that interprets and displays webpages so that users can view and interact with a webpage.

browser

_____ is a language used to describe the formatting of a document written in a markup language such as Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)

​The _____ was created to resolve the difficulty in remembering and using Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to access websites.

DNS (Domain Naming System)

​It eliminates the difficulty in remembering the Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to access websites.

Domain Naming System (DNS)

With these, a website user does not have to view information linearly.

hyperlinks

The span tag () and the anchor tag (<a>) are examples of _____ elements.

inline

​The best practice is to apply _____ styles when one wants to control the style of content within one pair of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) tags.

inline

​With a(n) _____ style, one adds a style to the start tag for an element.

inline

​_____ elements are displayed without line breaks so they flow within the same line.

inline

__ allows to create one website that provides an optimal viewing experience across a range of devices.

Responsive design

​This website structure has no set organization.

webbed

​_____ are popular browsers in use today.

- Microsoft Internet Explorer - Mozilla Firefox - Apple Safari

_____ is a server-side scripting language.

- PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) - ASP (Active Server pages)

Most Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) elements consist of _____.

- a start tag - an end ag - content

By defining Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) styles in a style sheet separate from the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) code, one can format a webpage in multiple ways such as _____.

- adding borders to elements - changing the background colour of the webpage - increasing size of the text

​The _____ is an example of block elements.

- footer - main - header

Companies and organizations can use extranets to share _____.

- product manuals - inventory status - order information

​Each Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) rule consists of a:

- selector - declaration

_____ is a server-side scripting technology from Microsoft used to accomplish server-side processing tasks similar to PHP.

ASP (Active Server Pages)

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) is accepted only on personal computers.

False

​It is an authoring language used to create documents for the web.

HTML

____ is an authoring language used to create documents for the web.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

​_____ is a set of rules for exchanging text, graphic, sound, video, and other multimedia files on the web.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

The _____ is a term used to describe the ever-growing number of devices connecting to a network, including televisions and appliances.

Internet of Things

_____ oversees the network connection between the data source and destination and micromanages the data.

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

A learning management system is a web-based software application designed to facilitate online learning.

True

A web designer should always create pages for viewing by a diverse audience, including physically impaired and global users.

True

A wireframe is a planning tool that shows the structure of a website.

True

An embedded style sheet takes precedence over an external style sheet.

True

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) browsers ignore spaces that exist between the tags in a HTML document.

True

Passive white spaces in a wireframe help a user to focus on one part of the page.

True

The Internet backbone is a collection of high-speed data lines that link major computer systems located around the world.

True

The declaration of a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) rule includes at least one property to apply to the selected element

True

​Style sheets are said to _____ because each type of style has a specified level of precedence in relationship to the others.

cascade

A _____ is an area of the Internet a particular organization or person manages.

domain

​An external style sheet is used when one wants to create styles for a single webpage that are different from the rest of the website.

false

​In the context of a style rule including a selector and a declaration, _____ formats h1 elements using blue text.

h1 { color:blue; }

​This website structure connects webpages in a treelike structure.

hierarchial

​Each website contains a _____ page, which is the first document users see when they access the site.

home

​The _____ page of a website typically provides information about the website's purpose and content, often by including a list of links to other webpages on the website.

home

A(n) _________ is an element that connects one webpage to another webpage on the same server or any other web server in the world.

hyperlink

When a Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) document is _____, it confirms that all of the code is correct and follows the established rules for CSS.

validated

A _____ website structure has no set organization.

webbed