Web Design & Development

Question 1

During the analysis stage, what are the two aspects?

Answer 1

End user requirements - how the webpage is designed specific to it’s users. Eg. Colourful for young children

Functional requirements - what the website is supposed to do

Question 2

What are the two types of navigation?

Answer 2

Hierarchical structure - every page can be navigated to from the main page

Linear structure - each page is navigated to by going back and forth

Question 3

What is used to show the design of a webpage?

Answer 3

Wireframe

Question 4

What makes an effective user-interface design? (4)

Answer 4

Visual layout - laid out systematically and neatly

Readability - not too cluttered with text

Consistency - all font and visual layout the same

Effective navigation

Question 5

Why are files compressed?

Answer 5

Smaller file size

Faster transmission

Question 7

Give two factors that effect file size and describe them

Answer 7

Colour depth - the number of bits used for the colour code of each pixel

Resolution - high resolution has a large number of small bits
- low resolution has a small number of large pixels

Question 8

Why would a programmer use a low-fidelity prototype?

Answer 8

Since they are cheap and can quickly be amended

Question 9

How is an unordered and ordered list defined in html?

Answer 9

Ordered -

<ol><li>Pizza</li></ol>

Unordered -

<ul><li>Pizza</li></ul>

Question 10

How are the following defined in HTML?

• image
• video
• audio
• hyper link
• link to external css

Answer 10

Image -

<img></img>

Video -

Audio -

Hyper link -

<a>Name</a>

External css -

Question 11

What is the difference between a class and an ID and what are they both defined by?

Answer 11

A class relates to many different items on a page

An ID relates to one

Class = .

ID = #

Question 12

What are the two JavaScript functions?

Answer 12

Onmouseover

Onmouseout

Question 13

Why is testing used?

What testing is done on a webpage? (5)

Answer 13

To remove any errors

1. Make sure all the multimedia elements are not cropped and good quality
2. Make sure the interactivity works properly
3. Navigation works properly
4. Matches user interface design
5. Consistency across fonts and image sizes etc.

Question 14

What evaluation is done on a webpage?

Answer 14

Fit for purpose

Question 15

What are the standard file formats for the following and what compression do they use?

• Audio
• Images

Answer 15

WAV - lossless, larger

MP3 - lossy, smaller, quality is lost

JPEG - lossy

GIF - lossless, transparency feature

Question 16

State the type of addressing used to add an image to a webpage

Answer 16

Relative

Question 17

Why do the webpages appear the same in every browser

Answer 17

The code determines the appearance of the webpage not the browser