Quiz Guide: LWD2 / YSG 1

LWD 2

• What's the difference between the Internet and the Web?
• What is a protocol?
• What does http stand for?
• What does a server do?
• Define and give an example of an IP address.
• What's happening to IP addresses? What's good and bad about that?
• What is a DNS?
• How might users with sight disabilities access the web?
• What does URL mean? Give an example of a URL.
• What is an Intranet?
• What are the parts of This domain name?
  
  http://maryadams.net/classpages/304/index.html
  
  
• What is a default document and what might it typically be called?
• How can you view the "source code" of a web page (ex 2-1)?
• A typical web page is actually comprised of multiple files or documents? What are some of these?

YSG 1

• Why does web reading "feel" longer?
• What is "eye tracking" and what does it tell us?
• What are the three guidelines for effective online writing?
• How might one "front load" content?
• What techniques make text "scannable"? Give two of the six listed.
• How might one "write for the world? Explain two techniques from those listed.
• What do Flesch and Kinkaid have to tell us about readability?
• Explain how one might determine a passage's readability.
• Explain both "usability best practices."
• When should you use the phrase "click here to...."?
• The book gives five suggestions for how to "label everything." List two.