Web design

Question 1

Which buttons would you expect to find on the Navigation bar of a website or a web browser?

(There are 6)

Answer 1

← Back (Go back to the previous page)
→ Forward (Go to the next page)
Refresh (also called reload) that refreshes the content of the page
Home (return to the page that you use as your starting point (Or the page your ISP uses as it’s home page. (e.g. Google))
Stop (stops trying to load the page you are currently on)
Key word search (To search a site using one or more keywords)

Question 2

What would you use a form on a website for?

Answer 2

To collect data from website visitors.

e.g. You may want to get some feedback on your website from your feedback form. The form contents when submitted, can automatically be sent to an email address.

Question 3

What is the umbrella term for the position of text, images and other elements on each page?

Answer 3

Layout

Question 4

What does HTML stand for?

Answer 4

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language.

It is the language we use to write webpages, it is a tag based language. For example if we wrote <b> Hello </b>, the word hello would appear in bold.

Question 5

What is added to webpages so that the website owner can see how many visitors there have been to that page?

Answer 5

A counter