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Summary for HCI 201 -- 1/19/06
Reminder
- Quiz 2 will be held on Tuesday, 1/24/06.
Here is the
Quiz 2 Review Guide.
Review Questions
- What are the rules for choosing a names for website files?
Ans: No uppercase letters, no spaces, filenames must be meaningful;
Only lowercase letters, digits, hyphen, and a dot to separate the filename
from the extension is allowed.
- Why is the title of a webpage important?
Ans: The title is displayed in the titlebar of the browser window;
the title is used for bookmarking a page and is used by search engines
to enter page data in its database. The title also shows up when a page
is printed.
- How do you set the title of a webpage in FrontPage?
Ans: Right click on the page, select Page Properties. Type the desired
title into the Title textbox.
- What do these terms mean when designing web pages?
Alignment Contrast Proximity Repetition
Ans: Alignment: elements are not placed haphazardly on a page.
Every element is aligned with respect to the other elements.
Contrast: Make page elements that are different obviously different, not
merely similar.
Proximity: Put related page elements close to each other.
Repetition: Repeating elements such as color, font, graphics
throughout the website. Repetition from one page to another gives the
user the impression that all of the pages belong to the same site.
- What are the worst mistakes that can be made when designing
a web page?
Ans: Here are seven mistakes: misspelled words, a textured background with
colors similar to the text, entire centered paragraphs, entire paragraph
in caps, broken links, broken images.
Changing File Permissions
- Right-click on a file or folder and select Properties to view
permissions using SSH.
- The students.depaul.edu server has three types of permissions:
read, write, and execute.
- Using SSH, one can give permissions for three types of people:
owner, group and other.
- You are the owner of the files and folders under your username.
- For our purposes, group is the same as other.
- Other are the people that will be viewing your website.
- Here are the permissions for a folder: read, write and execute for
owner, read and execute for group and other.
- Here are the permissions for a file: read and write for owner,
read for group and other.
- If you are having trouble viewing or deleting a folder or file,
check its permissions, as well as the permissions of folders that contain it.
Setting the Background Color
- To set the background color for a webpage:
- Right click on the page and choose Page Properties.
- Choose the Formatting tab.
- Select the drop down menu for Background under Colors >> More Colors.
- Select one of the colors in the Color Hexagon.
- Select OK.
- Select OK.
Exercise Ex5
- Work on Exercise Ex5.
- There are two types of links: absolute and relative.
- An absolute link refers to an external site.
- The URL for an absolute link starts with http://. For example:
http://www.depaul.edu
- Usually it is desirable to open the external site in a new browser
window by setting the target to _blank.
- A relative link refers to another page within the same website.
- The URL for a relative link does not start with http://. For example:
chicago/musueums/artic.htm
- To create a hyperlink using FrontPage:
- Select the text to convert to a hyperlink:
- Right click on the selected text and choose Hyperlink.
- Type in the address of the hyperlink in the Address combo box.
- Alternatively, select the page in the website to which the link should jump.
This will create a relative URL to that page.