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a hypertext document
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An electronic file containing elements that users can select, usually by clicking a mouse, to open other documents.
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What is a Web server? What is a Web browser? Describe how they work together.
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A computer on a network that stores a website and makes it available to clients. Users access the website by running a program called a web browser on their computers.
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How do HTML documents differ from documents created with a word processor such as Word or WordPerfect?
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HTML documents do not exactly specify the appearance of a document; rather they describe the purpose of various elements in the document and leave it to the Web browser to determine the final appearance. A word processor like Microsoft Word exactly specifies the appearance of each document element.
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a deprecated feature
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a feature that is being phased out by the W3C and might not be supported by future browsers.
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What element do you use to mark the beginning and end of an HTML document?
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the html element - <html> </html>
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What code would you enter in your document to set the page title to "Technical Support"? Where would you enter this code?
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<title>Technical Support</title>
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Specify the code needed to add the comment "Page Updated on 4/15/2011" to an HTML file.
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<!-- Page Updated on 4/15/2011 -->
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What error was made in the following HTML code?:
<head> <title>Customer Comments form </head> </title> |
the title element was not properly nested within the head element.
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block-level elements
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elements that contain content that is viewed as a distinct section within the Web page, such as a paragraph or heading.
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What is an inline element?
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element that is part of the same block as it's surrounding content - for example, individual words or phrases within a paragraph. Also referred to as character formatting elements
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Network
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structure that links several points, called NODES, allowing for the sharing of information and services.
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Node
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device such as a computer, printer, or scanner, capable of sending and receiving data electronically over the network.
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Host
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Computer Node
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Server
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A computer node that provides information or a service.
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Print Server
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A computer node on the network that provides printing services.
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File Server
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A node on the network that provides storage space for saving & retrieving files.
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Client
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A computer or other device that requests services from a server.
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Client-Server Network
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Network design in which several clients access information provided by one or more servers.
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LAN - Local Area Network
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A network confined to a small geographic area, such as within a building or department.
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WAN - Wide Area Network
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A network that covers a greater area, such as several buildings or cities, the largest being the internet.
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ARPANET
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Origin of the internet, which started with two network nodes located at UCLA and Stanford connected by a single phone line.
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Internet
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The physical infrastructure, involving computers, cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, gaming systems, and television stations connected by fiber-optic cables, satellites, phone lines, wireless access points, and other media, enabling communication & sharing information.
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World Wide Web
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The interface used on the internet making it accessible to the general public.
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Hypertext
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A method of organization in which information is presented in whatever order is requested by the user, rather than linearly.
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Links
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elements in a hypertext document that allow you to jump from one topic or document to another, usually by clicking a mouse button.
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Web Page
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Each document on the World Wide Web.
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Web Server
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Computers that make web pages available too any device connected to the Internet.
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Web Browser
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software which enables an end user to view a web page.
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Text-based browsers
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The earliest browsers, which were limited to displaying only text.
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HTML
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Hypertext Markup Language
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Markup Language
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Language that describes the content and structure of a document, but NOT how it will look.
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Styles
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formatting rules written in a separate language from HTML telling the browser how to render each element for particular devices.
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Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
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First popular markup language, introduced in the 1980s. It is device & system independent, meaning it can be applied to almost any type of document stored in almost any format.
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Extensions
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Features added to HTML by web browsers.
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World Wide Web Consortium - W3C
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A group of web developers, programmers & authors that created a set of standards that all browser manufacturers were to follow. They have no enforcement power, but their recommendations are usually followed.
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XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
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A stricter version of HTML, designed to confront some of the problems associated with the various competing versions of HTML and better integrate HTML with other markup languages like XML.
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What is the current version of XHTML?
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XHTML 1.1
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XHTML 2.0
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another version of XHTML still in the draft stage. NOT backward-compatible with earlier versions of HTML and XHTML.
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HTML 5.0
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a working draft of HTML which provides greater support for emerging online technology while still providing support for older browsers.
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HTML Converter
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A program that translates text written in another language into HTML.
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HTML Editor
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A program that helps you create an HTML file by inserting HTML codes for you as you work.
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Element
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distinct object in the document, like a paragraph, heading, or the page's title.
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Tag
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Core building block of HTML, which marks the presence of an element.
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Two-sided tag
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Any tag than contains content such as text or another element. Includes an opening & closing tag to mark the beginning & end of the content.
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Root Element
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An element which contains all of the elements in a document. For HTML, it is marked using the <html> tag
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Head Element
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One of the two main sections, it contains information about the document - for example, the document's title or a list of key-words to aid search engines to identify it.
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Body Element
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One of the two main sections, it contains all of the content that wiill appear on the web page.
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White Space
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Blank spaces, tabs, and line breaks.
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What are the two generic page elements?
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div and span
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Presentational Attributes
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Attributes that specifically describe how any element should be rendered. They are now deprecated in favor of styles, but are still in use on older sites.
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Empty Element
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An element that contains no content, such as <br /> and <hr />
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Inline Image
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an element that references the location of an image file, which is loaded by the browser as it renders the page.
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what is the syntax for an inline image?
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<img src="file" alt="text" />
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Character Set
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a collection of characters & symbols
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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
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The character set representing the alphabet of English characters.
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Latin-1 or ISO 8859-1
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A more extended character set which supports 255 characters and can be used by most languages that employ the Latin alphabet, including English, French, Spanish & Italian.
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Unicode
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The most extended character set which can be used for any of the world's languages, supporting 65,536 symbols.
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UTF-8
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The most commonly used character set on the web & is the default character set for most browsers. It is a compressed version of Unicode.
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Character Encoding
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To store a character set, browsers associate each symbol in a character set with a number.
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Numeric Character Reference
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The number given to a symbol in character encoding.
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Character Entity Reference
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A short memorable name to reference certain symbols, such as "copy" for the copyright symbol - ©
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