MIS/CIT 310: Quiz #1 - Study Guide

The quiz will be
Thursday, February 14
during our normal class time.
It will be a combination short answers (with some code expected).
It will only cover those tags and styles that have been common in all projects to date.

Chapters 1 and 2

What does HTML mean?
What is a tag?
What are the two basic parts (structure) of web pages
What might be found in each of the two basic parts
What key folders are found in most multi page web sites
What is DNS and what does it do?
What is CSS?
What is the current standard for HTML and CSS?
What program reads the tags?

Chapter 3

What is the title tag?
Where does the title tag appear?
Why can you not change the format/color of the title tag? and what does?
Provide examples of meta tags and their purpose
What items appear in the head portion of a web page to assist with SEO?
What are the new HTML5 semantic elements (think segments of the page)
Examples of the common tags we have used to date with the inclass 1 and 2 prorjects
How to code an LINK command to display the text different from the actual link
What is an absolute link versus a relative link (where each is best?)
Most tags need to be closed for HTML, but there are some self closing tags; understand both
Two examples of list tags?
How to involve the 'mail' program with a link
How could you improve your SEO with certain tags/descriptions, give examples

Chapter 4

Why do good websites employ external style sheets
What are the basic types of styles? (i.e. extend the properties of an existing tag,....)
When creating a 'class' selector style, the name of it should start with what character
When trying to employ a self developed style on a page, how do we tell the browser to 'use' a particular style?
How do you extend or add to the properties of existing tags
How to you employ or use a style for a tag you have extended?
What is the difference between the color and background color styles
When is it appropriate to use a word for color (i.e. color:red) and when is it not