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This document provides definitions and explanations for various web development terms and concepts. It covers what a web server is, features of web authoring tools, definitions of terms like open source and URL, explanations of HTML elements like <h6> and <title>, attributes for <meta> and <charset>, and more. It also includes exercises asking the reader to research topics like popular mobile browsers, parts of a URL, differences between elements, and projects to create basic web pages.

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Advanced Data Mining

This document provides definitions and explanations for various web development terms and concepts. It covers what a web server is, features of web authoring tools, definitions of terms like open source and URL, explanations of HTML elements like <h6> and <title>, attributes for <meta> and <charset>, and more. It also includes exercises asking the reader to research topics like popular mobile browsers, parts of a URL, differences between elements, and projects to create basic web pages.

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1. What is a web server?

A Web server is a program that uses HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) to serve the files that
form Web pages to users, in response to their requests, which are forwarded by their computers'
HTTP clients.

2. Name two features of a web authoring tool.


Intellisense and What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG).

3. What term is used to describe code that is freely available to view and edit?
Open source

4. What does HTTP stand for?


Hypertext Transfer protocol

5. What does URL stand for?


Uniform Resource Locator.

6. What is the name of the HTML element that generates the smallest heading?
Smallest heading tag is h6.

7. What is syntax?
Syntax refers to the words, grammar & punctuation that make up a language.

8. What is the purpose of the title element?


 The title element provides documentation for someone trying to maintain your webpage.
 Title element helps the search engine to find the accurate web page.

9. For the meta element, what is the purpose of the name attribute and the content attribute?
For the meta element the name attribute specifies the meta elements type and the content
attribute

10. For the meta charset element, what does the value utf-8 stand for? Specifically, what do “u,”
“t,” “f,” and “8” stand for individually?
Unicode transformation format-8bit

11. What does the following CSS rule do? p {text-align: right;}
Aligns the paragraph(p) to the right.

12. Who designed the HTTP protocol?


Tim Berners-Lee designed the HTTP protocol

13. Who founded the W3C? Name one person.


Tim Berners-Lee founded the W3C.

14. Why did users tend to dislike XHTML 1.1?


Users disliked XHTML 1.1 because if a web pages code did not fully comply with the standard,
the browser would display an error message and not attempt to display the web pages normal
content

15. The HTML5 standard requires every attribute to have a quoted value.
True or false.
False

Exercises 1.
[after Section 1.2] Search the Internet for a good web hosting service. Describe features of your
chosen web hosting service that would make it a good service for your needs (if you don’t have
any needs, then make some up). You can describe the features in paragraph form or in bullet
form, but you must use your own words. Which URL(s) did you use to find your information?
The service that is good for web hosting is Hostgator.
Features:
 Shared Hosting
 VPS Hosting
 Wordpress Hosting
 Linux Servers
 Windows Servers
URL: https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2424725,00.asp

2. [after Section 1.2] Use the statCounter web page to determine the most popular browsers for
mobile devices. List the top three browsers in descending order (most popular first).

3. [after Section 1.2] Explain all the parts of a URL. For example, in
https://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/images/PIA16082_Mitrofanov1F-thm.jpg, what is each of the
following? https mars jpl.nasa.gov msl/images PIA16082_Mitrofanov1F-thm.jpg

4. [after Section 1.4] What is the difference between a container element and a void element?

5. [after Section 1.5] What is the purpose of the doctype instruction?

6. [after Section 1.5] What is wrong with the following body code fragment in terms of the
positions of the tags? In your answer, you must (a) use the appropriate term to describe the
problem and (b) show how the code should be rearranged.
See the textbook for this part.

I hate when I'm studying and a velociraptor throws bananas at me. Does that happen to anyone
else? I hope not!

7. [after Section 1.8] Provide HTML5 code for a paragraph that contains the following Spanish
text from Ernesto Sabato’s On Heroes and Tombs. As always, use proper coding conventions.
You must provide code such that search engines are able to identify the paragraph as containing
Spanish. You are to assume that only the one paragraph contains Spanish and not the whole
page. La vanidad es tan fantastica, que hasta nos induce a preocuparnos de lo que pensaran de
nosotros una vez muertos y enterrados.

8. [after Section 1.9] What is the difference between a p element and a div element?

9. [after Section 1.11] Name something important that Ian Hickson did for the Web, and be
specific. Ian is not in this book, so you’ll need to look him up.

10. [after Section 1.12] This exercise attempts to get you to explore the W3C’s website. Find
something interesting on the W3C site. You can describe the features in paragraph form or in
bullet form, but you must use your own words. Which URL(s) did you use to find your
information?

11. [after Section 1.14] Using the text input mode, enter the following code into W3C’s HTML
validation service. What error messages are generated? Hint: There are three error messages, but
only two problems with the code. You may provide the three error messages verbatim or explain
the two problems.

See textbook for this part.

Projects (See Textbook for this part)

1. Create the following web page, and name the file parkBookstore.html. Note that the horizontal
line is right aligned. To implement that effect, use the margin-right CSS property with a value of
0.

2. Create the following web page, and name the file galleyMenu.html. As always, use heading
elements for all headings, not just the ones that appear at the top of the page. Note that the
horizontal line is left aligned. To implement that effect, use the margin-left CSS property with a
value of 0.

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