ICS 225 Web Design
and Implementation
Whats on the Midterm Exam
Date: Monday, October 30, 2006
Points: 100 points
Materials:
McCracken: Chapters 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 14, Appendix
Edwards: Chapters 1-6, 15
History of the web (webpage)
Usability guidelines (webpages)
Lab assignments
What you learned from doing critiques
What you learned from doing projects
Suggested Study Topics:
History of the web
Usability guidelines
Usability and its benefits
User-Centered Development Methodology
Senses
Perception
Memory hierarchical model of memory, chunking, recognition vs. recall
Interruptions
Mental Models
Metaphor
Design implications for human cognition
Organizational schemes for content management exact, ambiguous
Organizational structures for content management hierarchy, hypertext, database
Principles of visual organization proximity, alignment, consistency, contrast
Strategies for effective site navigation
Navigation systems hierarchical, ad hoc, database driven
Conventional understandings about navigation
Menus
Built-in browser navigational aids
Personalization vs. Privacy
Scripting client-side vs. server side
HTML, XHTML, CSS
alert boxes
Numbers and strings
Events and event handlers
Objects, properties, functions
Forms, Validation
Arrays
Images, image manipulation
Rollover style changes
Debugging
Regular expressions
DOM
Style:
Short answer and essay (majority of test)
No code writing
Reading XHTML, CSS and/or JavaScript code (approx 20%)