Final exam review
These are the concepts and material that students should be familiar with prior to the fourth exam later this week.
Major concepts
- Internet and Web definitions
- What are Internet protocols?
- Eras of development of Web and Internet
- Three language types of Web standards
- Rules for writing a page title
- Rules for naming a document
- What is Lorem Ipsum?
- Binary communication
- File sizes, bits and bytes.
- Defining colors
- Relative versus absolute URLs
- Image file types and application
- Screen dimensions and layout
- Three methods of applying CSS
- The DIV and box model
- Font families
- CSS type versus image type
- Photoshop layers & layer styles
- Usability guidelines
- Section 508
- Robots or spiders
- PageRank
- Googlebombs and SEO strategies
- Introduction of browsers & browser wars
- Modern browsers
- HTML5 elements
- Audio & file types
- Embedding elements and examples
- Audience measurement
- Methods of online promotion
- Web memes
- CSS3 elements: Shadows, borders, transforms
- Web fonts
Questions and concepts from recent readings
- McAdams' tips for writing for the Web
- What are examples of news conversations?
- How are news organizations having these conversations?
- How are social networks used in journalism?
- How is journalism measured and tracked?
- What do Web analytics accomplish?
- SEO for journalists