What is hypertext? Difference between hypertext and new media? How do we design for usability? Why bother?
Why have multiple layers in Internet Protocols? What is a URL?
What do we need to be able to browse the web? What is the minimal content of a web page? What are relative / absolute URLs?
Why would you use many small tables instead of a large one? Why is mail not ideal for web page interaction? Give some examples of why we need dynamic web pages?
Why do we use CSS? What do the parts of the CSS stuff on this page do? What are the properties of sa well designed web site?
What has digitisation contributed to multimedia? What are the advantages / disadvantages or lossy / lossless compression?
Why have images on the web? What are some inappropriate ways to add images to a web page?
Downloading vs streaming - discuss. What are the tradeoffs you should consider when deciding a frame rate for your video on your web page?
When would we use some Javascript in a web page?
How do you construct a panoramic image? Why would we use a content management system?
When should we and when shouldn't we use sound on a web page? Discuss the issue of spam. What is a well designed web site?
What are cookies for?
What is the difference between GET and POST? What are the approaches HTTP uses to identify users?
What are the limitations of static web pages?
What is XML good for?
Some question about design for new media from the text book (particularly from chapters in the reading section of COMP1710 web page).