SLR 12 Flashcards

Web Technologies

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1
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What is HTML?

A

Hyper Text Markup Language

HTML elements are the building blocks of HTML webpages and are represented by <> tags

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What HTML tags do you need to know?

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<html>
<link></link>
<head>
<title>
<body>
<h*>
<img></img>
<div>
<a>
<form>
<input></input>
<p>
<li>
<ol>
<ul>

<script>

</script>
</ul></ol></li></p></form></a></div></body></title></head></html>
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What does the <head> tag do?

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Acts as a container for metadata

Metadata - Data inside data

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What does the <title> tag do?</title>

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Defines the title of the document

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What does the <body> tag do?

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Defines the documents main text

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What does the <h*> tag do?

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Used to define headings in order of important and size

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What does the <p> tag do?

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Defines a paragraph

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What does the <img></img> tag do?

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Used to embed images as the the two attributes:

src - specifies the file path
alt - specifies alt text if the image can’t be displayed

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What does the <a> tag do?</a>

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Defines a hyperlink, which links pages together

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What does the <ol> tag do?

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Defines an ordered list

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What does the <ul> tag do?

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Defines an unordered list

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What does the <li> tag do?

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Used to give list items

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How does a tag end?

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With a </__> like this:

<h1> qwerty </h1>

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What is CSS?

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Cascading Style Sheets

Describes how HTML elements are displayed on screen, paper and other media

Displayed in <style> tags</style>

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Why is CSS used internally and externally?

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It’s used internally to change only one page

It can be used to externally to change the whole website, and keeping consistency

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16
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What are the CSS elements you need to know?

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background-colour
border-colour
border-style
border-width
font-family
font-size
heigh
width
colour

17
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What does the <div> tag do?

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Can be used to divide the HTML document up and apply different styles to each part

18
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How are the amount of pixels typed out

A

1 pixel would be:

1px

19
Q

What is Javascript?

A

The programming language for the web which can be used to modify HTML and CSS

Allows you to calculate, manipulate and validate data

20
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What does the <form> tag do?

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Creates HTML forms for user input

21
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What are the form elements?

A

<input></input>

<textarea>
<button>
<select>
<opinion>
<optgroup>
<fieldset>
<label>
<output>
</output></label></fieldset></optgroup></opinion></select></button></textarea>

22
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What is search engine indexing?

A

The process off a search engine collection, sorting and storing data in its index

The index is where all the data the search engine has gathered is located

Sending the index is fast and it constantly needs to be updated to add new pages, remove deleted pages and update broken links

Requests are ran against the index to gather data

23
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What is the Page Rank Algorithm?

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An algorithm used to compile and rank web pages

The results are then returned by a search engine

24
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What determines a pages PageRank?

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The amount of links to the page, the number of people who’ve clicked on them and the number of people who’ve visited the site

25
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How do search engines work?

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Keeps requests on an index which gathers up data into that index to be displayed

26
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What does Server and Client side processing work?

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  1. The client requests a page
  2. The clients request is recieved by the web server
  3. The web server returns the page to the clients browser
27
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What does client-side processing do?

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  1. Initial data validation (JS)
  2. Manipulates UI elements
  3. Applies website styles
  4. Reduces load on the server
  5. Reduces the amount of web traffic
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What does server-side processing do?

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  1. Provides further validaiton
  2. Queries and updates the server database
  3. Encodes data into readable HTML
  4. Keeps organisation data secure
  5. Performs complex calculations