Computer Science 180
Web Design

Fall 2011, Siena College

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Agenda

• Announcements
• Exam 1 Information
  • Scheduled for lab time, Monday, October 10
  • Will cover material up through the end of today's class meeting.
  • Time will be reserved during our class meeting on Friday, October 7 for review
  • All topics covered in lectures or labs are eligible
  • Format: closed book other than reference materials provided
• Exam 1 Topics and Sample Questions
  • Formatted text and markup languages
  • HTML tags and elements
    • possible questions involve proper HTML document format, knowing the basic HTML tags we have used regularly, drawing what a page or part of a page will look like in a browser given some HTML code, providing appropriate HTML given what formatted text looks like in a browser, understanding the advantages of the elements with more semantic meaning. Focus will be on the elements we have used most rather than the obscure ones.
  • Styles
    • possible questions involve the basic font style properties and values, specifying color (including understanding of each method of specifying RGB colors, being able to give a name for an RGB color, giving reasonable RGB values for a named color), methods of specifying style properties and values (style= attributes, style elements, CSS files), separation of content from appearance
  • Networks
    • possible questions involve basic networking terminology, protocols, packet switching, routing, name service (the overall mechanism, not the specifics of how one sets up a name server), what a URI means, web server basics (e.g., how to take a URI and some information from a server configuration to determine the path to the requested file and vice versa).
  • Standards: XHTML vs. HTML, validation
• Lecture assignment 8 recap
• Where did that spam come from?
• Client-server model
• Web servers
• Web server configuration example

Lecture Assignment 9

Due at the start of class, Friday, October 7.

Please submit answers to these questions either as a hard copy (typeset or handwritten are OK) or by email to jteresco AT siena.edu by the start of class. Please use a clear subject line when submitting by email (e.g., CS 180 Lecture Assignment 9, Joe Student). We will discuss these questions at the start of class, so no late submissions are accepted.

1. Given what you learned about the setup of the web server that provides our course web pages, what file on the web server corresponds to the main course web page?
2. Each of you has a URI on the course web server at hostmonster. Given what your URI looks like, do you expect that hostmonster uses a virtual hosts mechanism similar to the one used by the www.teresco.org server to host the courses.teresco.org pages? Why or why not?

Links

• Apache HTTP Server Project