Week 19 Vocab & Terminology
Class hours: 9:40am – 2:05pm
Mr. Cronin
Mr. Herr
Quizzes will be first thing Thursday morning – 10 questions. Quizzes are 15% of your CAWD grade. The other 35% is your class work, and final 50% worker traits.
- XHTML stands for Extensible HyperText Markup Language and has similar tags as HTML but follows a more strict syntax.
- XHTML is made up of tags (eg. <title>), that are used to organize text and images in a website. Tags are started and ended with sideways v’s.
- Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN as a way to share research documents with colleagues.
- The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded in 1994 and is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.
- URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, and is the address of a web page (eg. http://cawdvt.org)
- HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is a communications protocol used to transfer information on the World Wide Web from the server to your web browser. When you access a web page, you make an HTTP request to the server.
- DOCTYPE stands for Document Type Declaration, is an instruction that associates a HTML page with a Document Type Definition.
- A DTD is a Document Type Definition, and tells a web browser (eg. Firefox) what rules to follow when rendering a page.
- The <head> section of a web page is used to deliver information that will not be rendered by the web browser. An example of what may go in the head section is the <title>.
- All information in between the <body> tags will be rendered onto the screen by the browser.
- The <p> tag is used to surround information you want to be formated like a paragraph with line spacing and available first line indents.
- The <h1> to <h6> tags are headings. <h1> defines the largest header. <h6> defines the smallest header. Headers by default, tend to be larger and more bold than the paragraphs. They are also set apart from other elements with some spacing.
