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What is a site structure diagram?

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A diagram used to design the names of the required web pages and how the web pages will link together using hyperlinks

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What are the two types of site structures?

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  • Linear
  • Hierarchal
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What is a linear site structure?

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Structure that allows users to move forwards or backwards through a set of web pages - no direct hyperlinks to specific web pages

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What is a hierarchal site structure?

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Structure that groups web pages into ain topics, which is used to create topic and subtopic web pages

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What must an effective user interface have?

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  • Navigational links
  • Consistency across multiple pages
  • Relative vertical positioning of media
  • File formats of the media (text, graphics, video and audio)
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What are the two hyperlink types?

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  • Internal
  • External
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What does an internal hyperlink do?

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Takes the user from one web page to another within the same website

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What does an external hyperlink do?

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Takes the user from one web page to another in a different website

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What is a wireframe used for?

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To design the layout of every web page in a website

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What must a wireframe include?

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  • All text elements on the page
  • Any media elements (graphics, video & audio)
  • Elements that allow the user to interact with the page
  • Intended position and type of all hyperlinks on page
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What are the standard image file formats?

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  • Gif
  • PNG
  • JPEG
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What are the standard video file formats?

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  • MP4
  • AVI
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What are the standard audio file formats?

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  • MP3
  • WAV
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Gif Properties

Compression, Animation, Transparency & Colour Depth

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  • Compression: Lossless
  • Animation: Yes
  • Transparency: Yes
  • Colour Depth: 8 bit
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PNG Properties

Compression, Animation, Transparency & Colour Depth

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  • Compression: Lossless
  • Animation: No
  • Transparency: Yes
  • Colour Depth: 24 bit
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JPEG Properties

Compression, Animation, Transparency & Colour Depth

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  • Compression: Lossy
  • Animation: No
  • Transparency: No
  • Colour Depth: 24 bit
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MP4 Properties

Compression

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Compression: Lossy

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AVI Properties

Compression

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Compression: Lossless

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WAV Properties

Compression, Quality & File Size

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  • Compression: Lossless
  • Quality: Higher
  • File Size: Larger
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MP3 Properties

Compression, Quality & File Size

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  • Compression: Lossy
  • Quality: Lower
  • File Size: Smaller
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What are prototypes used for?

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To demonstrate or test the usability of the website design

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What is a low-fidelity prototype?

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Paper based prototype

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What factors affect size / quality?

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  • Resolution
  • Colour Depth
  • Sampling Rate
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How does resolution affect size / quality?

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The larger the resolution, the more pixels (better quality), the more datat store and the larger the file size

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How does colour depth affect size / quality?
The larger the colour depth, the more colours can be used (better quality), the more data and the larger file size
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How does sampling rate affect size / quality?
The larger the sampling rate, the more data to store (better quality) and the larger file size
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What is lossless compression?
Compression without quality reduction
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What is lossy compression?
Compression with quality reduction
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Why is compression used? | 2
* To have media require less storage space * To have media be able to transmit faster
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What does HTML stand for?
Hyper Text Markup Language
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How is the anchor tag used? | HTML code
` Next Page `
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What does the href attribute do?
Contain the address of a web page or the name of a HTML file
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What are relative addresses used for?
To link pages and resources within the same website (internal link)
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What are absolute addresses used for?
To link to web pages outside of your website (external link)
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What does the Copyright, Designs and Patents act 1988 make illegal? | 3
* Make unauthorised copies of content * Distribute content without permission of the owner * Use unauthorised content
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What is the purpose of the div tag?
To define and group together a section of code to format with CSS
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What are the required attributes of the img tag? | 2
* src: specifies the file path of an image * alt: specifies alternative text for the image if it cannot display
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What is the structure of the audio tag? | HTML Code
``` ```
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What is the structure of the video tag? | HTML Code
``` ```
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What is CSS used for?
To describe how HTML is to be displayed on the screen
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What are the two ways of implementing CSS?
* Internal * External
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What is the selector?
Which element, class or ID of the web page is being styled
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What is the declaration?
What is being changed by the CSS
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What is the property?
The aspect of the selector being changed
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What is the value?
The new value you want for the property
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What are the CSS selectors? | 4
* Asterisk * Element * Class * ID
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What is asterisk applied to?
Every element
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What is element applied to?
All HTML elements specified
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What is class applied to?
All HTML elements assigned to the class
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What is ID applied to?
All HTML elements assigned to the specific ID
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What are the five CSS properties and their functions?
* font-family: change text font * font-size: change text size * color: change text color * text-align: change text alignement to left, right or center * background-color: change background colour of html elements
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How is a hex code represented?
#RRGGBB and the values go from 00 to FF to identify the colours intensity
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What is the link tag used for?
To link the HTML file to an external document in the head tag
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How is the link tag structured?
``
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What are the benefits of using external CSS? | 2
* Ensures there is consistency across multiple web pages * Makes HTML code for web pages more concise and readable
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What is the order of priority for CSS styles?
1. In-Line CSS 2. Internal CSS 3. External CSS
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What is the order of priority for CSS selectors?
1. ID 2. Class 3. Element 4. Asterisk
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What are the two JavaScript events?
* onmouseover * onmouseout
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What does onmouseover do?
When the users pointer moves on to an element with the onmouseover event, JavaScript code can run
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What does onmouseout do?
When the users pointer moves off of an element with the onmouseout event, JavaScript code can run
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What is analysed during website analysis? | 2
* End-user requirements * Functional requirements
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What are end user requirements?
Tasks that the people who will use the website must be able to do
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What are functional requirements?
The processes the website must carry out and identifies the information required for the website to carry out its purpose
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What elements are tested to ensure an effective user-interface design? | 4
* Links & navigation works correctly * All web pages constantly follow the same design * Matches user-interface design * Media (texts, graphics, audio & video) display correctly
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How does a developer evaluate if a website is fit for purpose or not?
By checking to see if it meets both requirement types

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