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Posted: Sun, December 09, 07

Web Design Semester A -- Final Exam Pilot
Student Review Guide

The students need to be able to:

1. Identify the six html tags used for headings and their relative sizes
2. Identify how to properly write a valid XHTML statement
3. Apply <div> elements in order to center objects in a web page
4. Properly define a table using XHTML
5. Define the required Document Type Declarations (DTD) required for HTML and XHTML documents
6. Apply ordered lists to web pages
7. Apply unordered lists to web pages
8. Apply definition lists to web pages
9. Insert an image in a HTML document
10. Insert an image by using a Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
11. Apply a named anchor to a web page
12. Use the proper HTML tag to customize the title bar of a web browser
13. Differentiate between internal links and external links
14. Apply a hyperlink on a web page that links to another web page
15. Apply web naming standards to documents such as no spaces in web document names
16. Apply standards for the naming of folders for organizing a web site such as /images for all pictures, /media for audio and video files and /styles for all CSS pages
17. Define web safe colors and the fact that there are 216 such colors (specific names not necessary)
18. Define dithering
19. Differentiate between HTML and XHTML, specifically what is different in XHTML
20. Apply web page background color by use of CSS and hexadecimal specification
21. Define the hexadecimal notation for both black and white
22. Define the three methods for applying colors in CSS
23. Define the three ways of including CSS within a web page
24. Apply the most-appropriate method when adding CSS to a portion of a web page
25. Identify the file extension for a CSS document
26. Identify the proper code for creating a complete style rule in CSS
27. Explain the process for converting a non-CSS styled page to a CSS styled page
28. Apply proper code in order to divide a web page into manageable layout sections that include a navigation bar, a page header, a page footer and page content
29. Define file transfer protocol (FTP) and when it is used
30. Define hyper text transfer protocol (HTTP) and when it is used
31. Explain how to get a web page discovered by search engines
32. Differentiate between absolute path and relative paths
33. Define the CSS box model
34. Differentiate between the padding area, the border area and the margin area of the CSS box model
35. Create a style rule in CSS that creates a border around a paragraph on a web page
36. Create a style rule in CSS that adds padding to a paragraph on a web page
37. Create a style rule in CSS that adds a border to a paragraph on a web page
38. Apply shortcut notation to CSS style rules for padding declarations
39. Apply the float property to position an element within a parent element
40. Define standard dots per inch (dpi) resolution of a computer monitor
41. Define the use white space in a web page
42. Apply two methods for adding white space to tables
43. Properly center a table on a web page using the most accepted standard method
44. Define the characteristics of the .jpg picture format
45. Define the characteristics of the .gif picture format
46. Apply the proper HTML code to insert an image on to a web page
47. Define the method for adding text to be displayed while a graphic is loading
48. Define the default alignment of a web page in a browser
49. Define the default color of a unvisited hyperlink
50. Define the default color of a visited hyperlink
51. Apply the code that is used to specify the exact width and height in pixels of a picture
52. Define CSS pseudo-link classes
53. Apply inheritance in CSS documents
54. Use CSS to include a picture into a document such as a repeating image on a background
55. Create a class within a CSS document
56. Define the standard accepted value to points in an inch for web typography
57. Define the W3C method for defining an XHTML document