Exam 1: Introduction to the Internet and Web Design

The _________ is a worldwide collection of computers linked together for use by businesses, governments, educational institutions, other organizations, and individuals using communications devices and media.

Critical Thinking Questions Case 1-1 Mark is given the responsibility of setting up a method for distributing information at the university where he works. The content that needs to be distributed will include course lists with student data, lecture notes, and slides that should be available only to the students in a given course. Which of the following technologies is the best choice for Mark?

A _____ is an area of the Internet a particular organization or person manages.

A _____ website structure is appropriate if visitors should view the webpages in a specific order, as in the case of training material in which users need to complete Training module 1 before attempting Training module 2.

WYSIWYG editors provide a graphical user interface to design a webpage, as opposed to the blank page provided in a text editor used to write code.

A _________ website structure works best on sites with information that does not need to be read in a specific order and pages that provide many navigation options.

An example of a _____ present in a browser is http://www.cengagebrain.com/shop/index.html.

_____ define additional characteristics, or properties, of Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) elements such as the width and height of an image.

_________ is a library of JavaScript programs designed for easy integration onto a webpage.

Companies and organizations can use extranets to share _____.

_____ in a wireframe is the space between content areas.

A _____ is a planning tool that lists or displays all the pages on a website and indicates how they are related to each other.

A(n) _____ can allow retailers to purchase inventory directly from their suppliers or to pay bills online.

_____ is a popular language used to create interactivity within a web browser.

A _____ is a simple, visual guide that clearly identifies the location of main webpage elements, such as the navigation area, organization logo, content areas, and images.

Only images can serve as hyperlinks.

_____ is a server-side scripting technology from Microsoft used to accomplish server-side processing tasks similar to PHP.

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) browsers ignore spaces that exist between the tags in a HTML document.

Critical Thinking Questions Case 1-2 Mark and Sebastian are building a new e-commerce site. Their goal is to focus on customers' needs and to gain popularity among their competitors. Before creating their website, Mark and Sebastian identify the location of main webpage elements using wireframe. They leave a few areas of the website intentionally blank to help balance the design of an asymmetrical page. What are these intentionally left blank spaces called?

Microsoft Word has a Save As Web Page option that converts a document into a Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) file by automatically adding HTML tags to the document.