Final Exam Study Guide
The final exam is comprehensive. Any topic covered during the last for weeks is potentially on the exam. But expect coverage to focus on these topics:
- Using search engines
- Portals
- FTP
- Spyware and virus protection
- Absolute and relative links
- Recognize tag differences betrween HTML and XHTML
- Acronyms such as XHTML, HTML, FTP
The exam will also include short answer questions about the following concepts of coding and will include creating a web page using Notepad. For the web page, you will be sent a text file with all of the required tags to start a web page already on it. It will have the DOCTYPE, the <html></html>, <head></head>, <title></title>, <meta />, and <body></body> tags. Text content will also be provided. You will be asked to add code and content similar to what you did for projects. Then you will save the file as an .html file and upload it to your Geocitied account..
Know how to:
- create valid filenames for web pages
- all lowercase, no spaces, short, descriptive of content, extension of .htm or .html
- list the container tags we used in projects
- html, head, title, body, h1, h2, h3, p, a
- list the empty tags we used in projects
- list tags that are found only in the <head></head> section of coding
- list tags that are found only in the <body></body> section of coding
- correct code so it follows the rules for XHTML coding
and is backwards compatible with older browsers
- all lowercase,
- all attribute values must be in quotes,
- all elements must be closed,
- empty elements should include a space before the end slash
- When given sample code, be able to identify what part of the code is:
- the tag
- the attribute name
- the value for an attribute
- the content for the element
- the start tag of an element
- the end tag of an element
- create links, headings, paragraphs, horizontal rules, line breaks
- add background color to a web page using a web-safe 216 cross-platform color code
- download images to a disk
- determine the width and height property of an image
- determine the file size of an image
- insert an image into a web page
- view web page in browser
- view code while viewing web page in browser
- edit code in Notepad
- upload pages to Geocities
- report URL of your webpage stored at Geocities
If you would like to complete a "practice final" for the coding part of the final, go to the following web page for instructions:
http://www.csit.parkland.edu/~rwhobrey/cis151/projects/practicefinal.htm