Web Design with HTML and CSS

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Self study

Web Design with HTML and CSS Digital Classroom

Self study

1 Identify three websites you use frequently and compare how well they are formatted for

the screen and note if they work equally well on your monitor. Make a list of the visual

elements that contribute to your overall experience of the site.

2 Have you had the experience where you’ve considered “abandoning” a site because of

a poor experience? If so, try to remember the elements that led to this and how your

favorite sites might do things diff erently.

Review

Questions

1 What is an IP address and what role does it play in web design?

2 What elements contain structure, style, and interactivity for a website?

3 When designing for the screen, what is one of the most important considerations for

designers?

Answers

1 An IP address is a unique series of numbers that identify the identifi cation and hosting

address of a website (or sites). IP addresses are associated with a website’s domain name

since humans have an easier time working with names (www.agitraining.com) rather than

numbers (72.32.147.166).

2 HTML provides the structure of the page. The style is provided by CSS and the

interactivity is often provided by JavaScript, Flash, or Silverlight.

3 Designers need to be sensitive to the fact that there are users who have diff erent size

monitors and will view content at various display resolutions.