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Web Design Flashcards

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What is a site structure diagram?

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A diagram used to design the names of the required web pages and how the web pages will link together using hyperlinks

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What are the two types of site structures?

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  • Linear
  • Hierarchal
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What is a linear site structure?

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Structure that allows users to move forwards or backwards through a set of web pages - no direct hyperlinks to specific web pages

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What is a hierarchal site structure?

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Structure that groups web pages into ain topics, which is used to create topic and subtopic web pages

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What must an effective user interface have?

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  • Navigational links
  • Consistency across multiple pages
  • Relative vertical positioning of media
  • File formats of the media (text, graphics, video and audio)
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What are the two hyperlink types?

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  • Internal
  • External
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What does an internal hyperlink do?

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Takes the user from one web page to another within the same website

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What does an external hyperlink do?

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Takes the user from one web page to another in a different website

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What is a wireframe used for?

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To design the layout of every web page in a website

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What must a wireframe include?

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  • All text elements on the page
  • Any media elements (graphics, video & audio)
  • Elements that allow the user to interact with the page
  • Intended position and type of all hyperlinks on page
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What are the standard image file formats?

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  • Gif
  • PNG
  • JPEG
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What are the standard video file formats?

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  • MP4
  • AVI
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What are the standard audio file formats?

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  • MP3
  • WAV
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Gif Properties

Compression, Animation, Transparency & Colour Depth

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  • Compression: Lossless
  • Animation: Yes
  • Transparency: Yes
  • Colour Depth: 8 bit
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PNG Properties

Compression, Animation, Transparency & Colour Depth

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  • Compression: Lossless
  • Animation: No
  • Transparency: Yes
  • Colour Depth: 24 bit
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JPEG Properties

Compression, Animation, Transparency & Colour Depth

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  • Compression: Lossy
  • Animation: No
  • Transparency: No
  • Colour Depth: 24 bit
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MP4 Properties

Compression

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Compression: Lossy

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AVI Properties

Compression

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Compression: Lossless

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WAV Properties

Compression, Quality & File Size

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  • Compression: Lossless
  • Quality: Higher
  • File Size: Larger
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MP3 Properties

Compression, Quality & File Size

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  • Compression: Lossy
  • Quality: Lower
  • File Size: Smaller
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What are prototypes used for?

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To demonstrate or test the usability of the website design

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22
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What is a low-fidelity prototype?

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Paper based prototype

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What factors affect size / quality?

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  • Resolution
  • Colour Depth
  • Sampling Rate
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How does resolution affect size / quality?

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The larger the resolution, the more pixels (better quality), the more datat store and the larger the file size

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How does colour depth affect size / quality?

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The larger the colour depth, the more colours can be used (better quality), the more data and the larger file size

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How does sampling rate affect size / quality?

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The larger the sampling rate, the more data to store (better quality) and the larger file size

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What is lossless compression?

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Compression without quality reduction

28
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What is lossy compression?

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Compression with quality reduction

29
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Why is compression used?

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  • To have media require less storage space
  • To have media be able to transmit faster
30
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What does HTML stand for?

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Hyper Text Markup Language

31
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How is the anchor tag used?

HTML code

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<a href="page2.html"> Next Page </a>

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What does the href attribute do?

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Contain the address of a web page or the name of a HTML file

33
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What are relative addresses used for?

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To link pages and resources within the same website (internal link)

34
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What are absolute addresses used for?

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To link to web pages outside of your website (external link)

35
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What does the Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988 make illegal?

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  • Make unauthorised copies of content
  • Distribute content without permission of the owner
  • Use unauthorised content
36
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What is the purpose of the div tag?

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To define and group together a section of code to format with CSS

37
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What are the required attributes of the img tag?

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  • src: specifies the file path of an image
  • alt: specifies alternative text for the image if it cannot display
38
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What is the structure of the audio tag?

HTML Code

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<audio controls>
<source src="quack.mp3" type="audio.mpeg">
Your browser does not support the audio tag
</audio>
39
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What is the structure of the video tag?

HTML Code

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<video width="1280" height="720" controls>
<source src="baseball.mp4" type="video.mp4">
Your browser does not support the video tag
</video>
40
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What is CSS used for?

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To describe how HTML is to be displayed on the screen

41
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What are the two ways of implementing CSS?

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  • Internal
  • External
42
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What is the selector?

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Which element, class or ID of the web page is being styled

43
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What is the declaration?

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What is being changed by the CSS

44
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What is the property?

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The aspect of the selector being changed

45
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What is the value?

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The new value you want for the property

46
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What are the CSS selectors?

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  • Asterisk
  • Element
  • Class
  • ID
47
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What is asterisk applied to?

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Every element

48
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What is element applied to?

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All HTML elements specified

48
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What is class applied to?

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All HTML elements assigned to the class

49
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What is ID applied to?

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All HTML elements assigned to the specific ID

50
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What are the five CSS properties and their functions?

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  • font-family: change text font
  • font-size: change text size
  • color: change text color
  • text-align: change text alignement to left, right or center
  • background-color: change background colour of html elements
51
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How is a hex code represented?

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RRGGBB and the values go from 00 to FF to identify the colours intensity

52
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What is the link tag used for?

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To link the HTML file to an external document in the head tag

53
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How is the link tag structured?

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<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">

54
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What are the benefits of using external CSS?

2

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  • Ensures there is consistency across multiple web pages
  • Makes HTML code for web pages more concise and readable
55
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What is the order of priority for CSS styles?

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  1. In-Line CSS
  2. Internal CSS
  3. External CSS
56
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What is the order of priority for CSS selectors?

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  1. ID
  2. Class
  3. Element
  4. Asterisk
57
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What are the two JavaScript events?

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  • onmouseover
  • onmouseout
58
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What does onmouseover do?

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When the users pointer moves on to an element with the onmouseover event, JavaScript code can run

59
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What does onmouseout do?

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When the users pointer moves off of an element with the onmouseout event, JavaScript code can run

60
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What is analysed during website analysis?

2

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  • End-user requirements
  • Functional requirements
61
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What are end user requirements?

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Tasks that the people who will use the website must be able to do

62
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What are functional requirements?

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The processes the website must carry out and identifies the information required for the website to carry out its purpose

63
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What elements are tested to ensure an effective user-interface design?

4

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  • Links & navigation works correctly
  • All web pages constantly follow the same design
  • Matches user-interface design
  • Media (texts, graphics, audio & video) display correctly
64
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How does a developer evaluate if a website is fit for purpose or not?

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By checking to see if it meets both requirement types

N5 Computer Science (4 decks)

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