UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS: 2018/2019
EXAMINATION FOR THE DIPLOMA IN INFORMATION
TECHNOLOGY
DIT505 WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
FULLTIME & PARTTIME
DATE: AUGUST, 2018 TIME: 2 HOURS
INSTRUCTIONS: Answer ANY THREE questions.
QUESTION ONE [20 MARKS]
(a) Explain the following website related terms:- [4 Marks]
(ii) HTML attribute
(iii)Web page
(iv)HTML
(v) Web content
(b) Discuss three Internet services [3 Marks]
(c) Write HTML code to create the form shown below in figure 1: [8 Marks]
Figure 1
(d) Give the tags and attributes that will accomplish the following [3 Marks]
a. Give the © copyright character
b. Change the text face to “arial” font type
(e) Explain the functions of three body tag attributes supported by HTML [6 Marks]
(f) (i) Define the term ‘JavaScript’ as used in website development [2 Marks]
(ii) Outline two differences between JavaScript and HTML [4 Marks]
QUESTION TWO [20 MARKS]
(a) Write HTML code that would generate the webpage shown in figure 2 below when ran
via a web browser: [10 Marks]
Figure 2
(b) Discuss three factors you would recommend a website designer and implementer to
consider while designing and implementing a commercial website [6 Marks]
(c) Name the function of the following table attributes. For each give a valid attribute value
[4 Marks]
(i) width
(ii) border
(iii)colspan
(iv)bgcolor
QUESTION THREE [20 MARKS]
(a) Define the acronym CSS. State what CSS is used for [2 Marks]
(b) Give the Javascript that will cause the alert “Start of Exam” shown below. [8 Marks]
(c) Using an example, describe four components of a Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
[6 Marks]
(d) Outline two advantages and two disadvantages of HTML [4 Marks]
QUESTION FOUR [20 MARKS]
(a) Outline the output of the following text formating html tags and attributes
[4 Marks]
a. <font size=-2 color=green>Blue</font>
b. <br /> <br /> <br />
(b) The Internet Technology has brought many merits and demerits both to the society and
organizations.
Required: List and describe three impacts of the Internet technology to the society
[6 Marks]
(c) Study the following HTML code and then answer the questions that follows:-
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>DBIT 406 Exam</title></head>
<FRAMESET ROWS=”20%,20”>
<FRAMESET COLS=”30%,40%,40%”>
<FRAME SRC=”HOMEPAGE.HTML”>
<FRAME SRC=”COURSES.HTML”>
<FRAME SRC=”REGISTRATION.HTML”>
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</FRAMESET>
<FRAME SRC=”BLOG.HTML”>
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
Required:
Sketch the output of the above code when the code is run via a web browser [7 Marks]
(d) Outline three examples of web authoring tools [3 Marks]
QUESTION FIVE [20 MARKS]
(a) Discuss five factors to consider while sourcing for an ISP [5 Marks]
(b) (i) Write the HTML code that will create a link to a website whose address is www.DIT 505
through the use of a graphic named connect.gif [4 Marks]
(ii) Define suitable text within the code in (a) (i) to be displayed if the graphic in (a) (i) fails
to load [2 Marks]
(c) Write HTML code to create the table shown in figure 4 below: [9 Marks]
Figure 3
