1/19/06 Notes

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Summary for HCI 201 -- 1/19/06

 

Reminder

  1. Quiz 2 will be held on Tuesday, 1/24/06. Here is the Quiz 2 Review Guide.

 

Review Questions

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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

 

Setting the Background Color

 

Exercise Ex5