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Assignment Two

This document contains questions for a web design assignment involving HTML, CSS, PHP, and databases. It includes questions about: - Writing HTML and CSS code such as hyperlinks, background colors, and form elements - Associating stylesheets with HTML and CSS syntax - Using PHP to output text, create arrays, and loops to display patterns - Database concepts like retrieving data from tables to display in HTML - Best practices for CSS and potential issues with using tables for layout

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Assignment Two

This document contains questions for a web design assignment involving HTML, CSS, PHP, and databases. It includes questions about: - Writing HTML and CSS code such as hyperlinks, background colors, and form elements - Associating stylesheets with HTML and CSS syntax - Using PHP to output text, create arrays, and loops to display patterns - Database concepts like retrieving data from tables to display in HTML - Best practices for CSS and potential issues with using tables for layout

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Fundamental of Web Design Assignment 2

Answer all the questions

Question 1

a) Write the HTML code to make the word zou an absolute hyperlink to www.zou.edu. (1)
b) While it might be more difficult to design a website with a database back-end, it might be
a lot easier to maintain a database-driven website. Why? Explain at least two reasons why
database-driven websites are easier to maintain. (2)
c) Describe three of the four main advantages of standardization in the web design world. (4)
d) Write the CSS code to add a pink background color to a class selector called “prince” (1)
e) There are four ways to associate with an HTML document. List and explain how you can
use them. (10)
f) How do you write “Hello Zimbabweans” in PHP? (2)

Question 2

a) How do you create an Array in PHP? (2)


b) Consider the following HTML form:
<form method="post" action="addcomment.php">
Subject:
<input name="subject" type="text" size="40" class="mytextbox"> <br/>
Name:
<input name="username" class="mytextbox" type="text" size="40"><br/>
Comment: <br />
<textarea name="comment" cols="60" rows="8"></textarea> <br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
i) How many form variables are defined in the form above? (1)
ii) How many form elements are defined in the form above? (1)
c) Assuming this form was loaded in a web browser, what exactly happens when the user
clicks the submit button, i.e., submits this form? (4)
d) Why is the use of inline CSS often considered bad practice in web design? (2)
e) State two different ways of specifying CSS for a webpage. (3)
f) The use of tables can cause issues in web design.
i. List 3 potential problems of using tables for web page design. (3)
ii. List 3 issues of using tables when designing web pages for use on mobile
devices. (3)
g) What is the correct HTML for referring to an external sheet? (1)
Question 3

Consider the following CSS code:


#myblockdiv {
margin: 15px 20px 30px 45px;
padding: 5px 10px 15px 20px;
width: 700px;
}
a) What is the top margin? (1)
b) What is the left padding?(1)
c) How much total width will myblockdiv actually take up?(2)
d) Describe what is wrong with this CSS code: <b> { color: black; } (2)
Consider the following CSS code:
em { color: red; }
strong { color: blue; }
h1 {color: green;}
strong em {color: yellow; }
h1 em strong {color: purple; }
e) What color will the text be? <em><strong>text<strong></em>(1)
f) What color will the text be? <strong><em>text</em></strong>(1)
g) What color will the text be? <h1><em>text</em></h1>(1)
h)What are the three levels of CSS Style Sheets? Show them in the order they will be
searched for by the browser. (5)
i) What is the correct CSS syntax to set background colour of a webpage to powder-blue? (2)
j) Where in an HTML document is the correct place to refer to an external style sheet?(2)
k) In external style sheet, how do you display hyperlinks without an underline? (2)

Question 4

a) Write a PHP program to display count, from 1 to 10 using a PHP loop. Hint One can use a
for loop or while loop(10)
b) Write a program in PHP to create the pattern below:
*
***
****
*****
******
*******
******** (10)
Hint: use a for nested loop
Question 5

a) Which one of these has an illegal name? (1)


I. $myVar
II. $my_Var
III. $my-Var
b) State two ways to declare a variable in PHP (2)
c) What is php.ini file (2)
d) Write a PHP script to retrieve a list of students who passed a course,’BIT201’.You can
assume that the database schema is called ZOUDB, and an entity called CourseResult which
is defined with attributes course-code, student-pin and score. You can assume that Student
and course table exist as a separate table in the same schema. Your script should show the
name of student, the course name and mark in an HTML table of results. (10)
e) What is the name of the script which is called by the request string? (2)
f) What php code snippet would you use rip the variables in the query string? (2)
g) State one application of PHP (1)

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