More Reading + Quiz

DUE Sunday, Feb 12 – 4 points
(Monday NOON deadline)

  • Rockstar Personal BrandingThinking Web — Chapter 1: Anatomy of a Website
    Last year, SitePoint published a book called Thinking Web written collaboratively by members of their forum. This week we’ll be reading the first chapter this week by Ralph Mason, looking at the building blocks of a website. As they say in their description of the chapter, “If you are new to the world of web, then this is the article for you.” (All of the chapters are good and useful if you want to work on the web, and I’ll be assigning further readings throughout the semester.)  The book is available as a free PDF download through their store. (Scroll down after the description and click the “Get your free copy now” link.) Get The Book

Once you have completed the reading, you will need to take a quiz of ten true-false questions. (These questions will be randomly selected from the questions below. You can retake the quiz up to five times. Don’t stress about getting 100% on these quizzes: if you get 80% or better, you will be ready to proceed to the next activity and I will give you full credit.)

Once you have completed the reading, you will need to take a quiz of ten true-false questions. (These questions will be randomly selected from the questions below. You can retake the quiz up to five times. Don’t stress about getting 100% on these quizzes: if you get 80% or better, you will be ready to proceed to the next activity and I will give you full credit.)

All questions should be prefaced with an understood, “According to the author …”:

  1. T/F? A website is essentially a bunch of files organized into one or more folders.
  2. T/F? Most websites are hosted on their creator’s desktop personal computer (PC).
  3. T/F? The most popular software for hosting websites is Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) running on the Microsoft Windows operating system.
  4. T/F? The most common way to move files from your computer to a web server is by FTP.
  5. T/F? A domain name points to your host’s server so that people can find your website on the World Wide Web.
  6. T/F? Mason believes that the web address [mysite.com/contact/] is a little nicer looking that the web address [mysite.com/contact/contact.html].
  7. T/F? A folder on a web server will display a default file with a name like [index.html].
  8. T/F? CSS stands for Cascading Stylesheets.
  9. T/F? CSS files affect the behavior of your site, such as creating pop-up boxes or powering fancy slideshows.
  10. T/F? Mason believes that Friar Ockham would have recommended a folder name [/i/] for images.
  11. T/F? A favicon is a small, square icon that some browsers display to the left of your site’s web address (URL).
  12. T/F? A robots.txt file provides search engines a list of all the pages in your website.
  13. T/F? A “404″ error occurs when a visitor requests a page that cannot be found on your site.
  14. T/F? PHP is a scripting language; the web server will process any PHP code before sending the web page to the site visitor’s browser.
  15. T/F? The <title> element in an HTML document provides a page title that browsers display to site visitors.
  16. T/F? The <stylesheet> element is used in an HTML document to reference an external stylesheet.
  17. T/F? The percent sign (%) can be used before a fragment identifier to link from one part of a page to another.
  18. T/F? A forward slash at the start of an path (like [/img/picture.jpg]) tells the browser to start looking in the site’s root folder.
  19. T/F? Static sites store the content for their pages in a database.
  20. T/F? Mason recommends [http://reference.sitepoint.com/] for information about HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

DUE Sunday, Feb 12 – 4 points
(Monday NOON deadline)