CGS2821.txt

What is the first step in designing any website?

A. Define your goals
B. Consider feasibility
C. Consider visual design
D. Assemble a development team

Which of the following is not one of the six core skill sets needed in a website development team.

A. Graphic design for the web
B. Information architecture
C. Web technology
D. Sales and Marketing

Late delivery of web site content from the project sponsor is the most common cause of blown schedules in web development projects.

True or False

Which of the following project management tools is used to keep track of project phases and team responsibilities?

A. Strategy documents
B. Spreadsheets
C. Gantt charts
D. Project schedules

What Web development team member acts as the user’s advocate and is responsible for evaluating the success of the project?

A. Web technology lead
B. Usability Lead
C. Web project manager
D. Information architect

The __________ is most active early in the design and planning phases of the project, developing content categorization schemes, consistent site terminology, content structure across the site, and site architecture diagrams that explain the overall site planning to both the sponsor and the web team members.

A. Art director
B. Web project manager
C. Stakeholder
D. Information architect

Which Web development team member continues working on the site after it has been launched?

A. Web technology lead
B. Web project manager
C. Site production lead
D. Site editor

What is the first step in Garrett's "Nine Pillars of Successful Web Teams?"

A. Site strategy
B. Technology implementation
C. User research
D. Content design

The development team should solicit increasing amounts of user input as the project progresses.

True or False

Getting input from a wide variety of users during and after the initial planning stage is essential to the success of a Web development project.

True or False

How many goals are ideal for a Web development project?

A. 6 or more
B. 1
C. 4-5
D. 2-3

What information can Web analytics provide?

A. where your current users come from
B. what sites they visited before coming to yours
C. what search terms brought them to your web site
D. all of the above

Content development is the hardest, most time-consuming, and most consistently underestimated part of any web site development

True or False

_____________ web pages can adapt their content or appearance depending on the user’s interactions, changes in data supplied by an application, or as an evolution over time, as on a news web site.

A. Flash-based
B. Wiki
C. Static
D. Dynamic

Most Web content management products use a database to store web content.

True or False

According to our textbook, many universities have adopted _________ as a simple content management system that allows nontechnical faculty and administrators to quickly post notices, emergency announcements, and other timely material.

A. Microsoft Sharepoint
B. Wikis
C. Blogs
D. Google Docs

What is the purpose of Really Simple Syndication (RSS)?

A. To generate a set of “headlines” and web links that can appear many places at once on the Internet
B. To apply a visual style universally across pages in a Web site
C. To organize Web content in a database
D. To assist bloggers in organizing their posts

What are the steps of the Site Development Process?

A. 1. Definition/planning, 2. design, 3. construction, 4. marketing, 5. tracking/evaluation/maintenance
B. 1. Definition/planning, 2. information architecture, 3. design, 4. construction, 5. tracking/evaluation/maintenance
C. 1. User interviews, 2. Definition/planning, 3. design, 4. construction, 5. marketing, 6. tracking/evaluation/maintenance
D. 1. Definition/planning, 2. information architecture, 3. design, 4. construction, 5. marketing, 6. tracking/evaluation/maintenance

A well-written project charter is really only useful for very large enterprise-scale Web site development projects.

True or False

Valuable advice when it comes to managing Web projects include:

A. Avoid "Ready Fire Aim
B. "Leave visual design until everything else is planned
C. Small is good
D. All of the above

Usability describes how effective tools and information sources are in helping us accomplish tasks.

True or False

A quantitative measure of usability might...

A. Analyze the amount of frustration a user experiences on a Web site.
B. Time a user to see how long it takes to find what he or she is looking for on a Web site.
C. Determine how frequently a user returns to a Web site.
D. Survey users to see how satisfied they are with their experience on a Web site.

When it comes to Web site design, usability is second only to accuracy.

True or False

_________________ is concerned with the ability of users with disabilities to access Web content.

A. Universal Design
B. Universal Usability
C. Accessibility
D. Usability

_________________ is concerned with incorporating universal usability into the Web site design so that one design meets the needs of all users.

A. Universal Usability
B. Universal Design
C. Accessible Design
D. Universal Accessibilty

Which of the following is NOT a universal design principle:

A. Flexibility in Use
B. Simple and Intuitive Use
C. Imperceptible Information
D. Equitable Use

A wise developer identifies typical users of a Web site, and gears the design to meet those users needs.

True or False

Which of the following is an example of a Web site design that "supports adaptation" (check all that apply)

__ A user can use voice commands to move forward and backward through the browser history.
__ A user can adjust browser setting to change text size.
__ A user can use keyboard commands to navigate around Web form elements.
__ A blind user can use a "screen reader" to hear the page content read aloud.

__________________ can provide metrics about Web site usage patterns that can guide the redesign of a Web site.

A. A user interview
B. Web analytics
C. Browser history
D. Personas

Developers should collect increasing amounts of user feedback as the development process enters its final stages.

True or False

Information architecture describes the overall conceptual models and general designs used to plan, structure, and assemble a Web site.

True or False

A _______________ organizes website content from most general to the most specific, and illustrates the relationships between the content.

A. hierarchy
B. taxonomy
C. content inventory
D. chunk

A Web site _______________ is the science and practice of classifying Web content through a controlled vocabulary.

A. chunking
B. taxonomy
C. whiteboard session
D. hierachy

Which of the following is NOT a useful technique for teams that wish to organizing Web site content?

A. random selection
B. brainstorming
C. card sorting
D. whiteboard sessions

____________________ information refers to breaking it into logical reference documents intended to be read non-sequentially.

A. Chunking
B. Brainstorming
C. Inventorying
D. Card sorting

Most users prefer to read long passages of text on one Web page, rather than chunks of data on multiple pages.

True or False

A site structure should match user expectation, be logical and predictable, and utilize consistent methods and terminology.

True or False

A ________________ is the most efficient tool for finding information on very large Web sites.

A. detailed navigation menu
B. linked structure
C. tabbed navigation
D. site search engine

Check all of the essential structures that our online textbook says can be used to create a Web site:

__ sequences
__ wikis
__ hierarchies
__ webs

___________________ are tools that help teams to stay focused on information architecture and structural design without getting sidetracked by the distraction of the visual layer.

A. Wireframes
B. Structural themes
C. Canonical forms
D. Site diagrams

Many of the methods of interacting with information in a book are the same as the methods used when interacting with information on a Web site.

True or False

_______________ refers to issues of orientation, route decisions, mental mapping, and closure.

A. Information architecture
B. Wayfinding
C. Navigation
D. Pathfinding

At the top of one FSU webpage exists this line of text::
Florida State / The Graduate School / Academics & Research / Degree Programs / Master's Degree Programs
What is this called?

A. breadcrumbs
B. site map
C. navigation map
D. meaningless gibberish

It is useful for large Web sites to include _____________ to assist in navigation.

A. very large and in-your-face navigation tools
B. a search utility
C. many, many options for navigation
D. consistant identical styles on all pages

Out textbook uses "Times Square" as a metaphor for the ideal interface design.

True or False

A study cited in our textbook found that an equal number of users prefer to navigate Web sites using menu lists as those that prefer to use a keyword search.

True or False

Providing "you are here" markers on every page is especially useful for ____________.

A. educational Web sites.
B. users who find a page in your sight using a search engine like Google.
C. users who navigate to content from your home page.
D. small Web sites.

______________ are essential for both site identity and consistent navigation.

A. Tabs
B. Footers
C. Site search boxes
D. Headers

Which of the following is NOT an example of good interface design.

A. maximize navigation components
B. provide a strong site identity
C. avoid dead end pages
D. minimize the amount of clicks to site destinations

Web designers should build pages that load in under 10 seconds to avoid user impatience.

True or False

Which of the following is the correct sequence of tags in a typical Web page?

A. <html><title></title><body><head></head></body></html>
B. <html><head><title></title></head><body></body></html>
C. <html><head><title><body></html></head></title></body>
D. <html><title></title><head></head><body></body></html>

Check each of the benefits provided by Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

__ allows multiple html pages to share the same visual appearance
__ allows designers to customize html tags to have a specific appearance
__ providers for easier maintenance of the visual design of pages in a site
__ helps make Web page content more accessible to users with disabilities

According to the author, which of the following uses the most desirable naming conventions?

A. http://www.flhsmv.gov/ddl/cdl.html
B. https://portal.omni.fsu.edu/psp/sprdep/EMPLOYEE/PSFT_HR/c/W3EB_MENU
C. http://www.sears.com/shc/s/v_10153_12605_For+the+Home?storeId=10153
D. http://gradschool.fsu.edu/Academics-Research/Degree-Programs/Master-s-Degree-Programs

The "long tail" refers to

A. The far-reaching impact of search engine optimization.
B. Pages beyond the secondary level of a Web site that are rarely ever visited.
C. Web pages that are very long and require a lot of vertical scrolling.
D. Web sites that include a footer section on each page.

Which of the following is not considered an internal factor of search engine optimization?

A. Page title, content headings, and body text
B. Copyright date
C. Meta information
D. Alt attributes of images

The quantity and quality of other pages that link to your page is an important consideration in search engine optimization.

True or False

The content of a typical Web page is stored in a single html file.

True or False

Which of the following is considered a "relative" file reference

A. <img src="../images/logo.gif">
B. <img src="http://www.images.com/logo.gif">
C. <a href="http://www.fsu.edu">
D. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/kbaldauf.html">

Web server software, along with the Domain Name System (DNS) are used to translate a URL to a physical location address on the server.

True or False

http://ispace.ci.fsu.edu/~kbaldauf/images/portrait.jpg
Where on iSpace would this file be located?

A. /home/kbaldauf/images/portrait.jpg
B. /home/kbaldauf/html/images/portrait.jpg
C. /home/~kbaldauf/images/portrait.jpg
D. /home/kbaldauf/personal/images/portrait.jpg