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IT 130 -- 1/6/10
Review Questions
- What does HTML mean?
Ans: Hypertext Markup Language
- What does XHTML mean?
Ans: Extensible Hypertext Markup Language.
- How do you recognize an HTML tag?
Ans: It starts with < (left angle bracket) and ends with
> (right angle bracket).
- What is the difference between HTML and XHTML?
Ans: XHTML is stricter, for example, each page must start with an XHTML validation header,
every start tag must have a matching end tag, each page must have a head section and a body
section, the head section must have a title.
- Name some popular Web browsers.
Ans: Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera, Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape,
Safari (Apple). Mosaic is still available as antique software.
- What is the file extension of an HTML file?
Ans: .htm or .html.; .htm is recommended.
- What does it mean to upload a webpage?
Ans: It means to copy a file from a local PC to the web server so
that it can be viewed by anyone over the internet.
- What software can you use to upload a webpage?
Ans: SSH, FTP. A web browser is not used to upload a web
page because browsers are read only for web content.
- What does it mean to download a webpage?
Ans: It means to copy the page from the server to
the local PC.
- What software can you use to download a webpage?
Ans: Any web browser, SSH, FTP.
- I try to create a new HTML file using Windows Explorer,
but its associated icon is for a text file. What is wrong?
Ans: The Windows Explorer must be set to display file extensions.
(Invoke Windows Explorer >> Tools >> Folder Options >> View Tab >>
Uncheck the box Hide extensions for known file types.)
- Why is it important to set Microsoft Explorer to display
file extensions?
Ans: Because you will want to know the exact name of the file
without trying to guess the file
extension from the icon beside the file. It is also easy to make
mistakes when changing the name of a file.
- List the HTML tags that we saw last time.
Ans:
<html>
<head>
<title>
<body>
<p>
<h1>
<strong>
<em>
History of Computing and the Internet
Looking at HTML Source Code
- See Example 1 and the
source code for Example 1.
- Know all of the HTML tags used in Example 1.
- See Example 2 and the
source code for Example 2.
- Submit something like the source code for Example 2 as your Project 1
Submission.
Project Proj1
- See the document Using PSPad to
Create a New HTML Page.
- PSPad is a free download from
http://www.pspad.com.
- Complete the project Proj1.
Call your submission proj1-smith.htm, where you replace Smith
by your last name.
- Using SSH for File Upload.
- Before uploading your Proj1 HTML file, create a folder named
public_html.
- Upload proj1-smith.htm into the public_html folder on your
students.depaul.edu account.
- Do not view your uploaded file with SSH, use a browser like
Internet Explorer or Mozilla instead. If your name is ssmith, this
is the URL
http://students.depaul.edu/~ssmith/proj1-smith.htm
- Submit the link (something like the preceding line)
to your uploaded file on the
COL Assignment Submission System. Paste the link into the
comment field.
- Here is a
Guide to Submitting Projects.
- Make sure that you replace the
<strong> and <em> tags by CSS constructs as
described in the Proj1 Description.
Project Proj2
You may obtain topics from these websites
You may use any other sources to obtain topics.
Don't forget to set the font, text color and background color
of your Proj2 HTML page with an inline style in the body tag.
A deduction will be made if your submission is very short
or if you do not state why you chose the topics that you did.