| QUESTION: Describe the difference between an XML Sitemap and a HTML Sitemap. List the benefits and disadvantages of using each. |
| HTML site maps help visitors understand and comprehend your website while xml site maps help search engines access and understand your website. XML helps with seo and page discovery. XML increases your websites visibility and discovery. Ensures search engines can read and promote your site. HTML site maps allow better usability of the website. Allows easy navigation and increases efficiency in accessing and using. |
| Evaluate three IDEs (Integrated development environments) and provide a brief summary on the positive and negative aspects of each. Also in your own words include how it would suit an entry level trainee code developer. |
| Atom: Atom is an open source ide primary used for html scripting. Atom allows for a wide range of plugins and offers features such as ftp and custom functions. While Atom provides support for some ides it doesnt support every language and the program can have problems with ftp connections sometimes. Sublime text: Sublime is another ide text editor that offers a good ui and customisation. It is lightweight offers powerful search and excellent customisation. It supports simultaneous editing and multiple screens. Cons are its not very friendly for people new to coding and doesnt support every coding language. MS visual studio: Visual studio is an excellent ide that has many features due to the size of its producer Microsoft. It supports a powerful correction editor easy for beginners and a wide language support. Visual studio is the one I would recommend for beginners due to its powerful autocorrect excellent ui and wide support for languages. |
| QUESION: Provide a brief history on web browser development and the issues encountered by web developers specifically the adherence to web standards. |
| Tim Berners-lee programmed the first modern web browsers called World Wide Web in 1990. Unlike previous browsers Tim also created software to store and deliver content to it which was the first this had been done. The major problems developers had was the inconsistently between developers as their wasnt a clear slandered or way to develop things and there were so many different applications to view it. Now developers use html 5 which provides a universal language that adheres to a standard so that browser developers have concistancy when programming to develop their browsers. |
| QUESTION: What are website testing methodologies? Your answer MUST cover browser compatibility and website functionality. |
| Website testing methodologies are practices that are used to determine and test the funcional and non-functional requirements and status of a web application. These methodologies allow developers to locate bugs and flaws in their web applications and code. Browser compatibility testing is a common methodology which involes testing the websites fuctionality on a multitude of different browsers and devices. By running the same application developers are able to see if its functions and features perform as expected in different enviroments and test its accessibility. Website functionality testing is another common testng practice used to test every function of the web application/site and test if it works with the nessasary specification. |
| QUESTION: What are the endorsed requirements of accessibility for all NT Government webpages? |
| The NT Government is implimenting the (NTS) National Transistion Strategy to increase their webpage accesibility and usability in the web enviroment. By doing this the NTG is aiming to increase the endorsed requirments of accessibility by supporting and implimenting the standered by the Word Wide Web Consortium named Content Accessibility Guidelines version 2.0 (WCAG 2.0). The NTGs goal is to meet compliance and be authorised with the WACAG 2.0 Level AA on all content and websites. |
| QUESTION: How do you think its best to organise all the assets used for a specific webpage? Think locally on your computer AND within the root folder of the website. |
| Its a good idea to have a main folder with the html pages a separate folder for the css and a separate folder for images. |