UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2013/2014
ORDINARY EXAMINATION FOR THE BACHELOR OF SCIENCE
IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
BIT 1203 WEB DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT – DISTANCE
LEARNING
DATE: DECEMBER, 2014 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer Question ONE and any other TWO
QUESTION ONE
(a) Briefly explain the following
(i) Usenet [2 Marks]
(ii) Gopher [2 Marks]
(iii) Mailing Lists [2 Marks]
(b) State the difference between the following terms as used in HTML [6 Marks]
(i) ROWSPAN and COLSPAN
(ii) A tag and HREF tag
(iii) FRAMESET tag and FRAME tag
(c) State and explain the attributes associated with rows and cells as used with the
<Table> tag other than ROWSPAN and COLSPAN. [6 Marks]
(d) Briefly describe the function of the following elements [4 Marks]
(i) THEAD
(ii) TFOOT
(e) Write HTML code to divide a page into frames as illustrated in the diagram below
[8 Marks]
QUESTION TWO
(a) Describe the Web Design processes [6 marks]
(b) List 4 guidelines a webmaster should follow when making a detailed design [4marks]
(c) Write HTML code to generate the following table [8 Marks]
(d) Describe the tags used in HTML. [2 Marks]
QUESTION THREE
A training session is to be designed on how the company’s computers are linked together
over the internet. Your task is to produce self-explanatory notes for the trainees
Using examples produce a set of notes explaining each of the following computing
terms:-
(i) Client [5 marks]
(ii) TCP/IP [5 marks]
(iii) Web Browser [5 marks]
(iv) Get/Post [5 marks]
QUESTION FOUR
(a) Describe the functions of the following tags
(i) <IMG SRC> [2 marks]
(ii) <BORDER> [2 marks]
(iii) <ALT> [2 marks]
(iv) <VSPACE> [2 marks]
(v) <VALIGN> [2 marks]
(vi) <HSPACE> [2 marks]
(b) Discuss the functions of the following servers
(i) File server [2 marks]
(ii) Printer server [2 marks]
(iii) Proxy server [2 marks]
(iv) Application server [2 marks]
QUESTION FIVE
(a) Explain how one would insert the following in HTML page give the tags involved,
its attributes and the code
(i) Inserting an image
(ii) Inserting horizontal line
(iii) Alternating Scrolling text on the screen [9 Marks]
(b) Explain the function of the following tags and write a HTML code to illustrate their
usage
(i) <DL> [3marks]
(ii) <DD> [1mark]
(iii) <DT> [1mark]
(c) Describe the function of the following HTML tags
(i) <BR>
(ii) <Basefont>
(iii) <EM>
(iv) <ADDRESS> [4 Marks]
(d) State two factors to take into consideration before inserting an image as background
in a HTML document [2
Marks]
