Here are some topics to review for the midterm:
- Structure of HTML pages and relationships between/purpose of
<DOCTYPE>, <html>, <head>, <body>, <style>, <p>, <ul>, <ol>,<li>, <h1> – <h6> - A viewable website is simply a folder on a computer accessible via the Internet by a web browser
- Hosted website directory is going to be the exact same thing as your local directory on your desktop.
- Two primary technologies used in this class include HTML and CSS.
- HTML imposes structure on information (content)
- CSS contains rules for the visual characteristics of the information (presentation)
- What a link is and how you code a link <a href=…>
- Types of downloadable files. How different browsers handle downloadable files
- Basic web site organization (eg. put images in images folder, downloads, media, etc.)
- What a <div> is and why we use them
- The CSS box model
- What “floating a div” means. Why we do it.
- How to use CSS to make bulleted lists <ul> look like buttons.
- Why we use external style sheets
- Difference between HTML tags and attributes
- How to center page content using a #container div (sometimes called a #wrapper)
- The span tag: how we use it, why we use it
- How code is used to insert images on an HTML page (what HTML tag and attributes are used?)
- What validation is and how to do it.