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Chapter 3 self guided tour

Find a page where the text bumps up against the left edge. Is it appealing? What would you do to make the page more appealing and the text easier to read? Indent the text, put spaces between paragraphs, use tables

 

        http://www.cars.com/go/index.jsp?aff=national&PSRCH=SMXLeads&gcid=C14968x006&gtkw=1

 

http://www.eclipsetours.com/eclipsepage

 

 

Find a page with an unacceptable background. What is your immediate impression when you come across a page like that?  Cluttered and hard to read.

 

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~bdam/zon/engelsindex.html

 

Find a page that has an icon for a missing graphic. Why might the graphic be missing? The browser can’t find it because the graphic was not sent or was re-named or placed into a different folder.

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~bdam/zon/engelsindex.html

Look for this address: www.wolphincorn.com. Did you get a message? Why did you get that message?

Could not find because the domain name was not registered

Find a table with the borders showing.

http://forums.bellaonline.com/showflat.php?Number=22858263

http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/applets/#Sim

http://www.astro.washington.edu/labs/clearinghouse/movies/various.html

 

Find a page where it is obvious the designer used tables, even though the borders are not showing. How can you tell? Information is placed into columns and rows

http://www.scienceu.com/library/articles/flowers/index.html

Find a page or two where the designer probably should have used tables. How would tables have made it a better page?

http://www.santarosagardens.com/terms_privacy.asp

Find several email links. Do you find any email links that you don't know are for email until you click them or check their address in the status bar?

http://wings.interfree.it/

http://www.beesource.com/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002333.html

 

Find several pages with anchors (links that jump you to somewhehttp://slohs.slcusd.org/pages/teachers/rhamley/Astronomy/zodiac.htm#sagre else on the same page, instead of to another page).

http://www.encyclopedia.com/browse/browse-Aa.asp

 

 

Find at least two external links and two internal links. How can you tell whether they are external (remote) or internal (local)?

External- the new page will have a different domain name

        http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=eclipses+and+simulations&fr=FP-tab-web-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

http://www4.ncsu.edu:8030/unity/lockers/project/scijunct/depot/simulate/eclipse99/about.html

Internal-  the new page will have the same domain name

                http://www.astro.ubc.ca/~scharein/applets/#top

                http://www.encyclopedia.com/

Find a page with several frames. Spend some time there and poke around. Notice how frames are not like tables! What do you think?

http://technorati.com/tag/homemade

http://jersey.uoregon.edu/vlab/index.html

Chapter 3 Quiz

1.              a

2.              c

3.              c, it should be obvious to the user that the link is to an e-mail address

4.              c

5.              b

6.              d

7.              d

8.              c

 

Chapter 4

 

Find a page with an inappropriate title, such as “index.htm” or “hexidec. html.” What do you know how to do that the person who created that web page doesn't (or just overlooked)? The title of the page is different from its name.

http://www.gardens.com/

Find a page that has an icon indicating a missing graphic. Why might the graphic be missing? The browser can’t find it because the graphic was not sent or was re-named or placed into a different folder.

http://www.strw.leidenuniv.nl/~bdam/zon/engelsindex.html

 

Look carefully at a few web addresses. Can you visualize the file structure now? That is, can you tell which folders are inside of which folders, and which file is the actual name of the web page you see?

Yes I Can

When you come across business sites, take note of their domain names. Do you find a business that does not own its own domain name (such as hometown.aol.com/CatfoodCompany)? What kind of impression does that give you?  I get the impression that the company is not large enough to own their own domain name

http://www.newnorth.net/~pelicanlaketreefarms/

 

 

Chapter 4 Quiz:

1.     b-  no underscore

c.  no spaces

2.      a,d,c,b

3.      d

4.      d

5.      d

6.      b,c

7.      a

8.      d