KOS 1110 Computers in Science

Assignment 2 - Questions in HTML

Due date Monday, 29-8-2005, 1:00pm

1 What is the difference between a "Web page" and an "HTML page"?

A web page is a file in the Internet that we can serve by the browser. It is interpreted HTML in the form of show or display. It can consist of animation, text, background, colors, sound and others. More than one web page is called web site.

HTML page is Hypertext Markup Language. Hypertext means text stored in electronic form with cross-reference links between pages. It contains several tags which contain commands for example attributes or structure and content that are being display in the web page. It was designed to display data and to focus on how data looks. Web browser uses this information to determining how to display the page.

2. Do you need to be connected to the Internet constantly while you create HTML pages? Explain your answer.

No. we do not need to be connected to the internet constantly at all if we only want to create web page for publication on CD-ROM, zip/floppy disk/local network internet do not involve in creating HTML pages. Internet connection is only used when we want to upload the page in the World Wide Web.

3. Define the terms Internet, Web page, and World Wide Web.

Internet is the global networking, the “network of network” that connects million of computers around the globe. It was the largest network because people can access it without any frontier. It is similar to a giant highway that connects people all around the world through cyberspace where they can change ideas, views and search information, e-mail and even shopping on-line.

Web page is a text document that uses commands in a special language called HTML to add formatting, graphics and other media, and links to other pages.

World Wide Web (WWW) is a collective name for all Web pages on the internet. It also an internet service that provide easy feature and exiting multimedia interface to a lot of resources in the internet.

4. How many files would you need to store on your computer to make a Web page with some text and two images on it?

At least three files. The first file, named “index” is where all the things needed to put in web page are stored (which include the HTML commands) and one for each graphics image.

5. Can you create Web pages with Microsoft Word or WordPerfect? If so, how?

Yes, or with any other word processor on any computer (as long as the word processor will save “plain text” or “ASCII” files). It can be done by changing the word format to HTML format.

6. What four tags are required in every HTML page?

Four tags that are required in every HTML page are;

1) <HTML> </HTML>

2) <HEAD> </HEAD>

3) <TITLE> </TITLE>

4) <BODY> </BODY>

7. Write the HTML with the appropriate line break and paragraph break tags to format the following with a blank line between them:

Categorization of classification of tawheed

Tawheed ar-Rububiyyah

Tawheed al-Asma’ was Sifaat

Tawheed al-Uluhiyyah

<p><u> Categorization of classification of tawheed </u><br>

Tawheed ar-Rububiyyah<br>

Tawheed al-Asma’ was Sifaat<br>

Tawheed al-Uluhiyyah <br></p>

8. Write the HTML for the following to appear one after the other:

A large heading blinking with the words, "We are proud to be Muslims"

A horizontal rule across the page

A small heading with the one word "By"

A medium-sized heading with the words, "UIA students"

Another horizontal rule

<h1 align= “center”><font size=7> We are proud to be Muslims</font></h1><hr>

<h3 align= “center”> UIA students</h3>

<hr>

9. Write a complete HTML Web page with the title "My Home Page" and a heading at the top which reads "Welcome to my home in the cyber space" followed by the words, "Come in" in regular type.

<body> <h1 align=”center”>Welcome to my home in the cyber space</h1>

</html>

10. How do you put a link to your friends’ home page in your home page?

To put a link;

My Buddy marina’page here</a>

11. Your home page will be at http://www.mysite.com/home.htm when you put it on the Internet. Write the HTML code to go on that page so that when someone clicks on the words "All about me," they see the page located at http://www.mysite.com/mylife.html

<a href= “mylife.htm”>All about me</a>

12. You plan to publish a CD-ROM disc containing HTML pages. How do you create a link from a page in the \guide directory folder to the \guide\main\tips.htm page?

<title>guide directory</title></head>

</body></html>

13. How about a link from \guide\main\tips.htm to the \guide\chapter1\superstitions.htm page?

<body><a href= “..\guide\chapter1\superstitions.htm.”>guide</a>

14. If the following Web page is named mypage.htm, which files would you need to transfer to the Web server to put it on the Internet?

<HTML><HEAD><TITLE>My Page</TITLE></HEAD>

<BODY BACKGROUND="joy.gif">

<IMG SRC="me.jpg" ALIGN="right">

<H1>My Web Page</H1> Oh happy joy I have a page on the Web!<P>

<A HREF="otherpage.htm">Click here for my other page.</A>

</BODY></HTML>

The files that need to be transfer into the same directory on the Web server are:

a) mypage.htm

b) joy. jpg

c) me.gif

d) otherpage.htm

15. Write the HTML to produce the following:

Come for ~~cheap~~ free H₂O on May 7^th at 9:

<p>Come for <strike>cheap</strike>free H<sub>2</sub>O on May 7 <super><u>th</u></super>at 9:</p>

16. What is the easiest way to centre a single paragraph or heading?

To centre a single paragraph or heading;

<p> align= “center”> the paragraph that will be centered </p>

<h1> align= “center”> the heading that will be centered</h1>

17. How would you centre everything on an entire page?

To center everything on entire page;

Put <div align= “center”> immediately after the <body> tag at the top of the page, and </div> just before the </body> tag at the end of the page.

18. How would you say, "We're having our annual Nixon Impeachment Day SALE today!" in normal-sized blue text, but with the word "SALE" at the largest possible size in bright red?

<font color= “#0000ff”> We're having our annual Nixon Impeachment Day </font>

<font color= “#0000ff”>today!</font>

19. How would you make all text on a page green and a little larger than normal, but make all headings yellow?

At the beginning of web page, put;

<body text= “#008000” size=4>green text

and for the headings, put;

<h1><font color= “#ffff00” size=3 >yellow headings</font></h1>

21. Explain the usage of any other HTML command which is not discussed in the class, using suitable examples.

HTML command;

<marquee scroll amount= “10” scroll delay= “10”> this tag mean the word that we

highlight will move scroll with amount 10 and the time delay is also 10.

22. Write the IP addresses of three computers in different places and use these examples to explain the classification of IP addresses as belonging to Class A, Class B..etc..

Class A subnets- AAA.xxx.yyy.zzz where the first dotted decimal (AAA)

determine the organization and the last three (xxx,yyy,zzz) specify a computer in

that organization.

Example : 10.1.2.11 is IP address for UIA

10 is for UIA

1.2.11 is for computers in UIA

Class B subnets-AAA.BBB.xxx.yyy where the first two dotted decimal digits

(AAA.BBB) determine the subnet while the last two (xxx.yyy) specify the computer

in that subnet.

Example : 56.3.51.12

56.3 the subnet

51.12 computer in the subnet

Class C subnets-AAA.BBB.CCC.xxx in which the first three fields of the IP

address (AAA.BBB.CCC) are specified and the last field can vary, these subnet

provide 256 IP addresses.

Example: 46.21.7.65

23. Print your own home pages from your web site. Send the html files in the soft copy version. Make sure that your web pages are free from plagiarism