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Area 4: Web Design and Development

5 dot points across 5 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

How do you plan a website's purpose, structure and layout before building it?

Analysing a website's purpose and functional requirements, and designing its structure and interface using a site structure diagram, wireframes and a low-fidelity prototype.
An SQA Higher Computing Science answer on web analysis and design, covering a website's purpose and functional requirements, the site structure diagram, wireframes and a low-fidelity prototype.
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How do you control the appearance and layout of a web page with CSS?

Styling a web page with CSS: element, class and id selectors; controlling appearance and positioning; internal, external and inline styles; and a horizontal navigation bar.
An SQA Higher Computing Science answer on CSS, covering element, class and id selectors, controlling appearance and positioning, internal, external and inline styles, and styling a horizontal navigation bar.
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How do you mark up the structure and content of a web page with HTML?

Building a web page with HTML: the page-layout structural elements (header, nav, section, footer), links, images, lists and tables, and forms for user input.
An SQA Higher Computing Science answer on HTML, covering the page-layout structural elements (header, nav, section, footer), links, images, lists and tables, and forms for capturing user input.
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How do you make a web page respond to the user and change its content?

Adding interactivity with JavaScript: responding to events (such as onclick and onmouseover), writing functions, and changing page elements through the DOM (for example getElementById and innerHTML).
An SQA Higher Computing Science answer on JavaScript, covering responding to events such as onclick and onmouseover, writing functions, and changing page elements through the DOM with getElementById and innerHTML.
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How do you test a website and judge whether it meets its requirements?

Testing a website against its requirements (links, forms and scripts), checking usability and browser compatibility, and evaluating it for fitness for purpose.
An SQA Higher Computing Science answer on testing and evaluating a website, covering functional testing of links, forms and scripts, usability and browser compatibility, and evaluating fitness for purpose against the requirements.
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