Website Basics

Question 1

What code must every website carry?

Question 2

What is a web page?

Answer 2

A plain text file that contains HTML tags and has a filename extension .htm or .html

Question 3

What is the HTML code for boldface?

Answer 3

<strong></strong>

Question 4

What is the HTML code for italic?

Answer 4

<em></em>

Question 5

How do I add a headline to a webpage?

Answer 5

<h1>text</h1>

(or h2 etc. for smaller headlines) inside the pair of body codes

Question 6

How do I add a block of text to a webpage?

Answer 6

<p>text</p>

after the h1 pair, if they are there at all, and regardless of that, inside the pair of body codes.

Question 7

How do I add a bulleted list of items to a webpage?

Answer 7

<ul></ul>

as the pair of codes to create the list, placed within the pair of body codes. Then each list item or line of list items is placed, surrounded by <li>list item</li> within the Unordered List pair.

Question 8

How do I add a numbered list of items to a webpage?

Answer 8

<ol></ol>

as the pair of codes to create the list, placed within the pair of body codes. Then each list item or line of list items is placed, surrounded by <li>list item</li> within the Ordered List pair.

Question 9

How do I place a special symbol on a page?

Answer 9

Each character is typed with an asterisk, plus a name or # and a hexadecimal code, followed by a semicolon. A copyright sign can be typed as © or ©

Question 10

What two pieces of information are needed to place a link on a website page?

Answer 10

The target, or the page that should open when the user clicks the link, and the text of the link the user will click.

Question 11

How do I type the link text on a website page?

Answer 11

<a>Text for the link</a> within the pair of body codes

Question 12

How do I type the URL for the link text on a website page?

Answer 12

Within the <a> pair, and before the text of the link that will be highlighted, type href=</a>

Question 13

What four things does the target of a website page link need?

Answer 13

The code href, an equal sign, quotation marks around the URL, and a less-than angle bracket after the closing quotation marks.

Question 14

Does href need angle brackets?

Answer 14

No.

Question 15

Where do I place an href to code the target of a link?

Answer 15

Inside the pair of <a> codes that signal you are creating a link, and ahead of the text the user will click on to reach that URL.</a>

Question 16

What tag starts letting you put a picture or graphic on your web page?

Answer 16

<img></img> (or <img></img>

Question 17

What terminology tells the browser where to find the img to put on the page?

Answer 17

src=”image name with path”

Question 18

How do you specify a descriptive name for an image you are putting on a page to help search spiders and people who can’t see the image?.

Answer 18

alt=”descriptive words”

Question 19

Where will the browser put your img?

Answer 19

Wherever it appears in the HTML coding that puts the content on the page: after an h1 if that’s were the img tag appears; between <p> tags if the img tag appears there.</p>

Question 20

How do you specify the size of an image?

Answer 20

After the alt tag, specify width=”100” and height=”200”

measured in pixels

Question 21

What will the height of a picture be if you specify the width but not the height?

Answer 21

Whatever the computer decides will maintain the aspect ratio for the picture in the width size you did specify.

Question 22

What will the width of a picture be if you specify the height but not the width?

Answer 22

Whatever the computer decides will maintain the aspect ratio or shape for the picture in the height size you did specify.

Question 23

What’s a good file size for a picture on a web page?

Answer 23

1 megabyte or less

Question 24

Code to begin and end a table

Question 25

Code to begin and end a row in a table

Question 26

Code to begin and end a header cell in a table

Question 27

Code to begin and end a data cell in a table

Question 28

Code for a table with a 1 pixel border

Question 29

Code for space between data items in a table

Answer 29

cellspacing=”1”

Question 30

What is the default for cellspacing if you don’t specify a number of pixels?

Answer 30

2 pixels

Question 31

Code for a table with a 1 pixel border and 0 pixel spacing, with table items something and something else

Answer 31

something something else

Question 32

Code for a table with a 1 pixel border and 2 pixel spacing, with table items something and something else

Answer 32

somethingsomething else

Question 33

Where does the space from the cellspacing tag go?

Answer 33

Between the cells of a table

Question 34

Tag to put spacing inside the cells of a table

Answer 34

cellpadding=”1”

Question 35

Code for a table with a 1 pixel border, 2 pixel spacing, cellpadding 1 inside each cell and table items something and something else

Answer 35

something something else

Question 36

Code for a table with a 1 pixel border, 2 pixel spacing, cellpadding 1 inside each cell, table items something and something else, and data centred inside the cells

Answer 36

something something else

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