Category: Information System Design and Development

November 20, 2014

S4 – Homework w/b 24th Nov

Hardware

1 State what RAM stands for. 1

2 Name the part of the processor which stores data temporarily, eg instructions before they are executed? 1

3 Which bus holds the number of the storage location the processor needs to locate data in RAM? 1

4 Name the other 2 parts of the processor not mentioned in Q2. 2

5 Draw the simple block diagram of the computer system. 3

8 marks

November 14, 2014

S4 – Homework for w/b 17th Nov

Explain the following terms with reference to a database. (3)
1. File
2. Record
3. Field
State and explain how five organisations could use a data base (5)
Describe the following field types (9)
1. Text
2. Number
3. Date
4. Time
5. Graphic
6. Calculated
7. Object
8. Link
9. Boolean

November 14, 2014

S4 – Topic for next starter

Look over

Types of computer

November 14, 2014

S4 – This weeks starter question

June 2, 2014

Monster Posters

3G’s monster posters

May 9, 2014

Website Features and Functions

There is still a great deal of confusion over the features and functions of websites.

Website Features.

This is what makes up the website and how it looks. For example, features of the Google website are a search box in the middle of the screen and a clean uncluttered look to the site. This is to help the website visitors to find what they want more quickly.

Website Functions.

This is the point of the website. For example, the function of the school’s website is to pass information directly to parents via the news on the front page.

Websites have many features and functions and when you go to explain remember to expand on your answers and say why that feature or function is used.

March 25, 2014

Work for Tuesday 25th March

Finish off Dreamweaver websites,

• guitatr

• own site

If finished complete

• adding monster to city background

• Using photoshop filters and tools to customise the image

• Add text to the image and turn it into a post for a new monster movie. You can use cooltext or photoshop’s own tools.

March 10, 2014

Dreamweaver Website

Use Dreamweaver to create a website of your own. Your website should be 5 pages in length (or longer) and must be about a single topic. E.G. A computer game series, a band, a movie series, etc.

Each page should have a customised header, menu linking to other pages, images and a hyperlink in the text of the page.

Use this playlist and your notes to help you.

March 5, 2014

Creating a website from scratch.

Today we started to use Dream weaver to create a website for a guitar company. We were given a brief and are following a set of note to achieve it.

The page we were working on today had a 3 column liquid layout, menu bar and will contain a graphic in the next lesson.

February 23, 2014

HTML Tags

The main structural HTML tags are

<HTML> </HTML> – This tells the browser where the HTML pages starts amd stops.
<Head> </Head> – This is the header of the HTML page it is not displayed but contains information that is required for the page to be displayed properly.
<Title> </Title> – This is the title of the page, it is displayed in the tab at the top of the screen.
<Body> </Body> – The contents of the page are contained here/
– Takes a new paragraph
<!– Comment –> – This is a comment for the designer and is not displayed in the browser.

The main formatting tags are

green text – This changes the colour of the text, note the American spelling. Colours can be described by name or by a hexadecimal reference.
Fancy fonts – You can change the font the text is displayed in.
– Embolden the text.
– Italics the text
– Underline the text
<H1>..<H7> – Set the text as a header and specify a type
2 – Display as supertext (think squares)
&nbsp – Display a non blank space