Web Design & Development Flashcards

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HTML

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Hypertext Markup Language a programming language used to create the content and basic structure of a web page

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CSS

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Cascading Stylesheets are used to define the way the web page will look.

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Javascript

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Javascript code provides interactivity to web pages not achievable with simple HTML

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head

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Contains information relating to the whole page

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title

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Text to be displayed in the browser tab

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body

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Start of the page content

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h1 to h6

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Used for headings and sub-headings

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p

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Spaces out a paragraph of text

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DIV

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Divides the HTML code into sections for formatting

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link

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Provides a link to an external file

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a

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The anchor tag, used with href attribute to display text on the page that provides a hyperlink to another document or web page

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IMG

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Used with src attribute to display an image from specified file

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audio

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Embeds sound content from an audio file on the web page

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video

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Embeds video content from a video file on the web page

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ol

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Indicates the start of a numbered list

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ul

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Indicates the start of a bulleted list

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li

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Identifies each element in a list

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style

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Indicates internal style sheet formatting

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script

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Indicates Javascript code

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Internal Hyperlink

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Links to a page within the website

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External Hyperlink

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Links to a page on another website

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Relative Addressing

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Uses the short or local filename of a page or file,eg, sport.html

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Absolute Addressing

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Uses the full filename path of a page or file, eg, http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport.html

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External style sheet

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Formatting styles stored in a separate .css file which can be accessed by multiple web pages using the tag in the HEAD section

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Internal style sheet

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Formatting styles defined within the HEAD section using the tag and accessible only by that web page

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Inline style

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Formatting styles within the HTML code using the style attribute on any tag

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text-family

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Style property used to change the font of the text

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text-size

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Style property used to change the size of the text

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color

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Style property used to change the colour of the text

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text-align

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Style property used to change the position of the text

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background-color

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Style property used to change the colour behind the text

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CSS selector

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The part of the CSS rule used within the HTML code to indicate the styles to be used

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CSS ID

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Identified by # and a given name, are unique to one element on the web page

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CSS CLASS

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Identified by . and a given name, can be used on multiple elements on the web page

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onmouseover

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Javascript event which occurs when the cursor is hovered over an element on the web page

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onmouseout

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Javascript event which occurs when the cursor is moved away from an element on the web page

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End user

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the group of people most likely to use a website.

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Examples of end users

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young children, inexperienced users, expert users etc.

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End user requirements

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Tasks the end users of the web site need to be able to do identified during the Analysis stage

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Functional requirements

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What the website should do and the processes it will provide for users identified during the Analysis stage

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Navigation

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Describes how the pages within the web site are linked to each other

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Wireframe

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Created during the design stage to show the visual layout of a web page

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Low fidelity prototype

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Hand drawn or basic version of the website which allows the end-user to provide early feedback during the design stage

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Consistency within a website

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Pages within a web site showing similar design features in the use of text, layout, colours and navigation

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Copyright Designs and Patents Act(1998)

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Law which makes it illegal to publish a web page containing copyright multimedia material unless permission has been given for its use