Part 5 - Weaving the Web

Question 1

What is a client-server system?

Answer 1

It is an online way of sharing information between computers. One computer (sending the information) is known as the server and the computer receiving it is known as the client.

Question 2

Split the following URL into a scheme, a host and the path.

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/about.html

Answer 2

http: (scheme)
//www.w3.org/ (host)
TR/html4/about.html (path)

Question 3

What is HTTP and HTTPS?

Answer 3

Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) and HTTPS is a secure version which allows you to send confidential information e.g. credit card details. It tells the client browser what form it should request the information from the server.

Question 4

What is HTML?

Answer 4

Hypertext markup language is the programming language of the web.

Question 5

What is delimiting?

Answer 5

Electronic mark up uses a tag at the start and end of the area to be styled which lets the computer known what text to style. This is called delimiting.

Question 6

What does WYSIWYG mean?

Answer 6

What you see is what you get - is a form of presentation where the document looks the same on screen or printed or both. An example of an application is Word document - when you use the italics function it changes the text you see. When you use the italics function in word, you don’t see any marks indicating it is in italics but instead the words appear in italics.

Question 7

What is nesting? Give an example HTML code for writing “This sentence is in bold and italics” in bold italic font.

Answer 7

Nesting is where you have a tag inside another tag. It is good practice to write them in reverse order when closing the tags.

<b><i>This sentence is in bold and italics</i></b>

Question 8

What is Hexadecimal used for?

Answer 8

It stores large amounts of information in a relatively short form using the letters 0 - 9 and letters A - F to represent 16 digits. A colour code example in HTML might be #66ffa7

Question 9

What is CSS

Answer 9

Continuous Style Sheeting - used to style headings and background of a web page to ensure consistency. Style sheetings can be written or they can be downloaded and referenced.

Question 10

What is XML? What is the naming convention used?

Answer 10

XML is extensible mark-up language which is a way of structuring HTML documents.

Camel Case is used for naming e.g. theHousesAddress

Question 11

What code tags can you use to insert a video or audio file into a site using HTML5?

Answer 11

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