CSC170 Web/PPT Test STUDY GUIDE
Save a file with a specific name to a folder you create
Know how to create a directory
Web: (See study puzzles here)
- Text formatting
- How to set a page title
- Difference between a web site and web page
- Be able to update a web page with a picture
- The home page on Panther must be named index.htm or index.html
- Understand how a picture links to a page
- Understand the purpose of a File Manager: Windows Explorer
(local), FileZilla (remote)
- Definition and examples of web server
- Understand what html is
- Understand the purpose and function of a web browser: Firefox and
Internet Explorer
- Know how to FTP to panther
- Know that you should always create one folder for your web site,
and keep all files inside that folder
- Internet structure (regional backbone; TCP/IP; connections;
server)
- Be able to tell what is wrong with a picture that does not show.
- Know how to create all 4 types of links: e-mail; another page on
your site; a web address; bookmark
- Know how to insert, size and place an image
- Know how to create a table and why you would use one
- Know how to set a background
- Know what alternate text for pictures is used for
- Know what a thumbnail is
- Be able to create a horizontal line
- Know that panther will show index.html in public_html when you
start
- Know Firefox and Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer are web
browsers
- Know that a web browser can see locally (file) or remote (http)
- know that a picture is not held inside a HTML page
Graphics:
- download and use pictures
- How to crop a picture in irfanview
- Jpeg is true color and good for pictures
- Gif is not true color and is good for computer graphics; Gif can
be transparent.
- Significance of extensions: .jpg and .gif: programs know the file
is graphic
- What is a bitmap? What is resolution?
- What does a picture file size mean and how can it be changed?
Which is larger - kilobyte or megabyte?
Practical Application: (create a web site with the following): -
remember it doesn't have to be pretty for practice
- Add a link to your site titled "web study"
- Create a new webstudy page and link to it from the index
- Include a table
- Include a picture on top
- Include a picture on the background that you changed to a smaller
filesize
- Include a link to another website
- Include a link to an email address
- Include a link to the top of page
- Change the title
- Some words with different font colors and sizes
- ----> Then, call someone else off campus to ensure they can
see it well on their PC.
Powerpoint knowlege:
- How to create a powerpoint with a couple slides with title,
bullets, tables and pictures
- How to animate objects on the slide, and how to make them come in
a certain order without any clicks required
- How to change the slide transitions
- How to run a slide show forwards and backwards
- How to print handouts instead of slides
- How to create a hyperlink to a web site
- How to create a hyperlink to another page
- How to show the page number in the footer on a handout
Access knowledge:
- Tables are like Excel spreadsheets with limits on what can go in
each column.
- A column is like a field.
- Tables hold your information, while Queries look at your
information.
- Queries do not hold information.
- More than one query can look at the same table at the same time.
- More than one person can use the same access database at the same
time.
- You can get to a table in design view to create it, and datasheet
view to see the information in the table
- You can get to a query in design view to create it, and datasheet
view to see the information in the tables
- Queries can hook two tables together.
- Queries can make one table repeat its information for every
occurance in another table.
- Queries can calculate new fields.
- Queries can sum up information into groups easily.