COMP249 Web Technology
Tutorial - Week 2
Answer the following questions and hand in your answers in a text file via WebCT before 9am Monday 3th March.
- What are your favourite websites based on:
- Functionality, it does something useful for you.
- Design, it's very well presented.
- Ingenuity, it does something really cool or geeky.
(list three sites). Briefly explain each answer.
- Explain Internet and World Wide Web. List some protocols that are used when browsing a web page. Describe the sequence of actions it must go through to be able to show you the page.
- Write out the HTTP messages that are transferred between your computer and the server to retrieve the URL above.
Additional topics for discussion in the tutorial (not for handing in):
- What is your previous experience of Web Technology? Have you written HTML, do you run a website? What do you hope to learn in COMP249?
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Evaluate the following web sites according to Nielsen's Top Ten Guidelines for Homepage Usability; write down your comments for each guideline.
Do you think that these guidelines capture the good/bad points of these pages?
- General structure of HTML pages -- write a simple HTML page with a paragraph, a bulleted list, a table and a number of links to other sites. Make sure you understand basic HTML structure.