LESSON 16: SERVERS

1. Study the index cards on Servers. I've included a hard copy of these index cards, for your convenience. Be sure you can answer all the questions!
2. There is an excellent online technical dictionary located at: http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/ Go to this site, type "software" in the "SEARCH by keyword" box, and read the results. Do the same for "hardware,"   "server,"    "client,"   "HTTP,"   "protocol,"   "Unix,"    "platform,"   "upload,"   "download," and "FTP."
   You may want to bookmark this site as an excellent source of information on technical terms.
3. We're into a new chapter! Chapter 5 is "Printing from the Web". Please read pages 62–65 (up to "Cascading Style Sheets for Printouts") in the Weasel book and answer the following questions:
   1. When printing a document, what does "portrait" format mean?
   2. When printing a document, what does "landscape" format mean?
   3. When a browser is asked to print a web document, what does it generally try to do?
   4. Describe the basic features of a "printer-friendly HTML page".
   5. If you anticipate that your audience will want to do a lot of printing from your site, what might you do?
   6. What is the most common problem with printing web pages? What causes this problem?
   7. If you want to make sure that everyone gets a decent printed version of your web page, what is the maximum number of pixels you should use for the width of graphics and tables?
   8. What are the best background and text colors for printable versions of web pages?
   9. What is one cost advantage of printing out pages that have black text on a white background?
   10. Is it a good idea to include URL in your web document, and why?
   11. Does a link with a clickable area like "Visit this site about cats!" help a user who is holding a printed copy of the web page? What should you do when you are creating links on a printer-friendly web page?
   12. Can Cascading Style Sheet info (CSS2) be used to specify how a web document should be printed? If so, how does this work?
   13. What is the downside to using CSS2 specifications to help to control how a document is printed?
4. There are two worksheets on the web, to give you a brief introduction to Cascading Style Sheets, and to illustrate the "screen" and "print" versions of a web page. You should create all the necessary files, and try them yourself. Feel free to view the sourcecode, and cut and paste appropriate text into SimpleText. Be sure to save the files with the correct extensions, either ".htm" or ".css".
   The first worksheet links to external style sheets: whsht16ext.htm
   The second worksheet uses two embedded style sheets, where the style sheet information is included in the HEAD section: whskt16int.htm

• Coding part:
  (10 pts) Show me that you've done the two style sheet exercises, one using an external style sheet, and one using embedded style information (5 points each).
• (3 pts) Show me that you've marked the answers to all the questions in your text book.
• (10 pts) Questions from the index cards and reading (see below).
  There will be 13 randomly-chosen questions; you will cross off 3 questions.
  The remaining 10 questions are worth 1 point each.