Designing Digital Applications

Question 1

common webpage dimension and safety

Answer 1

1024x768 (971x608 safety)

Question 2

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)

Answer 2

the standard markup language for documents designed to be displayed in a web browser. It can be assisted by technologies such as Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and scripting languages such as JavaScript.

Question 3

commands (HTML)

Answer 3

implemented by “tags” (). the end tag always includes a / (<p>, </p>). every html doc starts with , ends with , tells the browser it is an html document.

Question 4

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Answer 4

a style sheet language used for describing the presentation of a document written in a markup language such as HTML. designed to enable the separation of presentation and content, including layout, colors, and fonts.

Question 5

XHTML

Answer 5

part of the family of XML markup languages. It mirrors or extends versions of the widely used HyperText Markup Language (HTML). Case-sensitive (HTML is not).

Question 6

SGML vs. XML

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HTML and XML are both descendants of an earlier markup language called SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language). SGML is a complicated set of rules that define document structures. XML is a subset of SGML that does the same thing, using fewer rules.

Question 7

HTML5

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a markup language used for structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. It is the fifth and latest major HTML version that is a World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recommendation.

Question 8

Javascript

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a logic-based programming language that can be used to modify website content and make it behave in different ways in response to a user’s actions (lets web developers design interactive sites)

Question 9

Responsive design

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is fluid and adapts to the size of the screen no matter what the target device.

Question 10

Adaptive design

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uses static layouts based on breakpoints which don’t respond once they’re initially loaded. Adaptive works to detect the screen size and load the appropriate layout for it – generally you would design an adaptive site for six common screen widths: 320, 480, 760, 960, 1200, 1600.
On the surface, it appears that adaptive requires more work as you have to design layouts for a minimum of six widths. However, responsive can be more complex as improper use of media queries (or indeed not using them at all) can make for display and performance issues.