·• Find a page where the text bumps up against the left edge. Is it appealing? What would you do to make the page more appealing and the text easier to read? Find a page where the text bumps up against the left edge. Is it appealing? What would you do to make the page more appealing and the text easier to read?

http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_positioning.asp

The page is too busy. There is too much information that is close together.  The text should be moved toward the center and spread out among several pages.

;·•  Find a page with an unacceptable background. What is your immediate impression when you co• Find a page with an unacceptable background. What is your immediate impression when you come across a page like that?me across a page like that?

http://www.discoverireland.com/gb/

The background moves and is totally distracting and there is not enough contrast between the letters and graphics.

·• Find a page that has an icon for a missing graphic. Why might the graphic be missing? graphic. Why might the graphic be missing?

http://www.mcu.org.uk/articles/tables.html

The graphic of the stop sign is missing because either the .html address is wrong or the file has been moved from the original folder.

• Look for this address: www.wolphincorn.com. Did you get a message? Yes Why did you get that message? www.wolphincorn.com. Did you get a message? Yes    Why did you get that message?

The website is not active but instead points the viewer to related sites about snakes.

• Find a table with the borders showing. showing.

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/Images/teachers/lessons/roygbiv_data.gif

•  Find a page where it is obvious the designer used tables, even though the borders are not showing. How can you tell?

http://www.savethebay.org/land/landuse/maps/Protected%20data%20table.gif

The table looks as if it was copied from a spreadsheet with the border lines turned off.  The data is aligned both horizontally and vertically.

• Find a table with the borders showing designer probably should have used tables.
How would tables have made it a better page?

Tables give a page a neat appealing appearance. A sloppy page will discourage your audience sending them elsewhere.

• Find several email links. Do you find any email links that you don’t know are for email until you click them or check their address in the status bar?

ccpsinfo@ccpsnet.net 
Contact the Webmaster
rodsm.ncsc@gsa.gov

Find several pages with anchors (links that jump you to somewhere else on the same page, instead of to another page).

http://www.hypergurl.com/anchors.html#bottom

• Find at least two external links and two internal links. How can you tell whether they are external (remote) or internal (local)?

External:

http://www.bts.gov/cgi-bin/ExitPage/good_bye.cgi?url=http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/

http://www.bts.gov/cgi-bin/ExitPage/good_bye.cgi?url=http://www.uscourts.gov/

Internal:

http://www.irs.gov/compliance/index.html

http://www.maya-archaeology.org/html/Gods_Mayan_pantheon/Curly_Face_Tiquisate_close.html

Internal links will include the home page address as a prefix. An external link will either transfer you to another site or open a separate browser window for viewing.

Find a page with several frames. Spend some time there and poke around. Notice how frames are not like tables! What do you think?

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~milton/reading_room/contents/index.shtml

I like the feature of having the stationary site index on the left side of the page. This saves time when viewing the site. There is no need to scroll to the top of the page to navigate within the site.

Chapter 4 Tour

• Find a page with an inappropriate title, such as "index.htm" or "hexidec.html." What do you know how to do that the person who created that web page doesn't (or just overlooked)?

Index.htm should be the default name of the first page of every web site. This allows the files associated with the site to be organized. The site should also have a unique name so it can be found by a search engine.

•  Find a page that has an icon indicating a missing graphic. Why might the graphic be missing?

http://www.mcu.org.uk/articles/tables.html

The graphic of the stop sign is missing because either the .html address is wrong or the file has been moved from the original folder.

• Look carefully at a few web addresses. Can you visualize the file structure now? That is, can you tell which folders are inside of which folders, and which file is the actual name of the web page you see?

• When you come across business sites, take note of their domain names. Do you find a business that does not own its own domain name (such as hometown.aol.com/CatfoodCompany)? What kind of impression does that give you?

Domain names are not very expensive. If a company is in business to sell a product to customers who use the internet they should acquire their own domain name. I would probably not but a product from such a company.