Midterm
You should be familiar with each item listed below. You should be able to implement each correctly, provide examples of each as well as list out inclusive elements of each. Rememeber that the exam is very traditional in its approach.
- Web object naming rules
- lowercase
- Windows - case insensitive
- Unix - case sensitive
- no spaces
- space = %20
- no special characters
- Avoid: (\),(/),(*),(?),(@),(.)
- short and meaningful
- lowercase
- Five required elements within an XHTML page and where they reside in the code
- doctype
- declaration
- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
- doctype definition
- "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
- root element with namespace
- first ELEMENT in an html document
- THE parent element
- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"></html>
- head
- <head></head>
- title
- <title>TITLE</title>
- body
- <body></body>
- parent element for everything displayed
- doctype
- well formed and valid
- The
five syntax rules of XHTML markup and examples of each
- Elements/Tags must close properly
- Elements/Tags and attributes must be in lowercase
- Value of attributes must be enclosed within quotation marks
- You must have an attribute and a value; no attribute minimization (ex. <input checked="checked"> NOT <input checked>)
- Elements/Tags must be nested properly
- The four web design rules and examples of each
- Design for your audience
- Give the audience what they want; Less is More; No clutter
- Just because you can, doesn't mean you should; flash
- Most people spend their time on other sites; use conventions
- CSS
- implementation and rules
- selectors (ex. p)
- declarations (ex. color: blue;)
- property (ex. color: blue;)
- value (ex. color: blue;)
- including id's
- classes (ex. .class)
- elements
- inheritance
- Path types
- relative (ex. "/css/menu.css")
- absolute (ex. http://isaacsondesign.biz/css/menu.css")
- Accessibility guideline establishing organizations
- URL's
- http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=referer
- http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
- guideline checklists
- implemenation in web pages
- URL's
- Basic usability considerations
- examples of usable design
- Domain types
- rules to qualify for a domain type
- primary
- .com, .edu, .net, and .org
- secondary
- .info, .name, .tv, .pro, .biz, .aero, .arpa, .biz, .cat, .coop, .int, .jobs, .mobi, .museum, .name,and .travel
- ASP
- Recordset - response to a query; sent from database to Application Server
- Sorting - Declaration of which record to use
- Filtering - order of records within a recordset
- SQL interactions
- Insert - insert a record within a database
- Update - update/edit a record within a database
- Delete - delete a record within a database
- Select - display menu from a database; also dynamic list/menu














