Category: Information System Design and Development

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

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.

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/
  • <p> – Takes a new paragraph
  • <!– Comment –> – This is a comment for the designer and is not displayed in the browser.

The main formatting tags are

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