Introduction to HTML 4.01 - Lists - Page 1

1 - How do links make a web site different than a book or magazine?

Links give visitors to your site control over the content they access.

2 - Why is a well organized navigation system a necessary component of a Web site?

A logical, simple navigation sytem will allow visitors to find the information they are looking for instead of going elsewhere.

3 - How can visual metaphors used for navigation get you in trouble?

A metaphor that may seem intuitive to you may not make much sense to a visitor who may be from a different country, or speak a different language.

4 - Why does text flow beside the bottom edge of an image if an alignment isn't specified?

An image is an inline element and as such must have it's position specified or it will be treated the same as the text, placing it is the next position in the line.

5 - Why is white space important?

White space inproves the readibility of your web page. It gives the eye a break - especially important considering that monitors and their potential settings are so varied. Also - different browsers will render your pages in different ways. White space is a designer's friend.

6 - What is the difference in using <em> or <strong> rather than <i> or <b>? (By the way - I used character entities here - for the less than and greater than symbols).

EM and STRONG are structural elements that serve to add regualr emphasis or heavy emphasis to their contents. They are rendered as italics or bold in visual browsers. I and B are textual and may or may not render the enclosed text properly in visual browsers. Use I and B when there are no HTML 4 phrase elements for the structure in question.

7 - Why would you want to choose a special character set?

Character sets allow you to render foreign characters properly, as well as mathematical, scientific and punctuation characters.

8 - Character entities were frequently used for mathematical operators,as discussed in the text. What relatively new option from the W3C do authors now have for producing even more complex representations?

Unicode allows for a wider range of entities than spans all platforms, programming languages and all spoken languages