Final Exam: Study Guide

Here are some topics to review for the final exam:

  1. What is a “reset” style sheet? Why do we use it? (Eric Meyer’s Reset)
  2. If there is a conflict between CSS styles embedded within your HTML page and those in linked style sheets, which styles will be applied? (Cascading order)
  3. The overall concept and specific techniques for using the HTML5 <video> tag to embed video from your own server (not YouTube) in a web page. Also, what video file formats are required? (HTML5 Video Tutorial)
  4. How to place a border around a video using a <div> tag (or on the <video> tag)  (HTML5 Video Tutorial)
  5. The CSS code for placing an image in the background of a <div>
  6. CSS property indicating that a background image should be tiled vertically or horizontally
  7. How to create HTML page layout from a layered photoshop design comp. (Creating a Webpage from a Design Comp | Saving graphics from a Design Comp for use in your HTML page)
  8. What does the {float: left;} CSS declaration do to bulleted or ordered list items? (Button Navigation tutorial)
  9. Fixed positioning: What it is, what is does, and how to do it (Fixed Position tutorial)
  10. Code that links an HTML page to a style sheet
  11. <div> in HTML code for centering all of the content in the browser window (what is it named? what CSS is used to center it?)
  12. The overall concept and specific techniques used in Project 5 for using PHP to build scalable web sites (PHP Tutorial)
  13. Markup required for correctly displaying quotes (“) as a string when quotes are included as part of a text string comprising a variable in PHP (PHP Tutorial)
  14. Use of $navbar and echo in php strategy used in class (PHP Tutorial)
  15. “PHP” stands for what? (PHP Intro)
  16. Be able to identify the HTML, CSS and PHP code that enable specific structural, visual, and functional characteristic of a webpage or website (this applies to the scope of all projects completed this semester, including lab assignments)
  17. The overall concept and specific techniques for using @font-face in CSS to include custom fonts from your own server (not Google fonts) in a web page. Also, what font file formats are required? (@font-face Tutorial)