Class hours: 9:40am – 2:05pm
Quizzes on Friday morning. 15% of your grade are the quizzes, typically 9 new, 1 review, and 1 extra credit question from our articles.
This years Sat / Act prep work comes from “100 Most Common SAT Words” by Quizlet. As we are using their list to pull from you are able to use their free study tools. Make a free account so you add the new words to your Study Bank. As the weeks go by and you are studying from this ever growing word bank, you will find that your vocabulary (speaking and retention) has improved.
The weekly latin root comes from “42 Most Common Latin Roots”.
Sat / Act prep
- Florid – flushed, ornate. “The design was very florid, with flowers and leaves carved all over the wood.”
- Fortuitous – lucky. “The man had a fortuitous moment when he found the $100 bill on the hallway floor.”
- Frugal – thrifty. “Mr. Cronin was frugal, and this was proven when he would drink the students leftover coffee’s and iced tea’s they left on the drink shelf.” (Kidding – gross).
Latin Root of the week
- Mal – bad, wretched. “The malevolent teacher gave a vocab quiz every Friday, he was old and angry and mean.”
- Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
- (POP) stands for Post Office Protocol.
- (IMAP) stands for Internet Message Access Protocol.
- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support text characters, images and html – it is used most often for mail attachments.
- SMIL, the Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language.
- A web search engine or Internet search engine is a software system that is designed to carry out web search, which means to search the World Wide Web in a systematic way for particular information specified in a web search query (search bar).
- A meta-search engine is a search tool that sends user requests to several other search engines and/or databases and aggregates the results into a single list or displays them according to their source.
- A Web crawler, sometimes called a spider or spiderbot and often shortened to crawler, is an Internet bot that systematically browses the World Wide Web, typically for the purpose of Web indexing. Indexing is learning what information is stored where so it can be retrieved by search engines in the future.
- Adobe Flash was popular 15-20 years ago to make websites. This has fallen out of favor for a number of reasons:
- Flash websites are not easily crawled by spiders (computers that index the internets content) like google; hence do not show up well in web searches.
- Flash websites are mostly images, therefore cannot be use by people with visual impairments / screen readers easily.
- Flash websites required you to buy Flash to make Flash websites – designers didn’t like having to pay to build websites.
- Tables in Web Design should be used for tabular data only. Tabular data is something that could show up on spreadsheets, such as baseball stats, global warming statistics, and other column/row pairs of data.
- Tables were at one time used for layout. This is now considered against best practice and should not be done. Tables should not be used for web layout because:
- Hard for search engines to index.
- Hard for accessibility tools to use such as screen readers.
- Very difficult to setup to respond to different screen resolutions (responsive web).
- The <pre> tag defines pre-formatted text. Text in a pre element preserves both spaces and line breaks.
- WYSIWYG, is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output. WYSIWYG editors are (such as WordPress when using their in-browser editing tools) are often limiting in their abilities, and can create bloated code, mixing html/css/js together. Often used by Graphic Designers, compared to true Web Designers that want the power and control of code.