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ICT Quiz - Web Publishing 01 (Questions)

This KS3 ICT quiz takes a look at web publishing. The internet was developed during the 1960s to the 1980s. It allowed military and academic establishments to share files and send electronic mail. By the end of the 1980s, business networks were also linked to the internet and it was possible to send electronic mail between offices in different locations. This allowed for better communications for trans-national companies. If you wanted to get information via the internet, you needed access to the specific network where the data was stored.

The World Wide Web was developed by a computer scientist in 1989 and the first website was put on line in 1991. He worked out a way of joining together several different computer technologies that could be accessed through the internet. This was a revolutionary development. Within just a few years, anyone could publish information that could be accessed from anywhere in the world. Instead of needing to be a member of a specific network, the information on the World Wide Web was available to anyone with a web browser and an internet connection.

1. The letters WWW stand for what?
[ ] Wet Wet Wet
[ ] What When Where
[ ] Wide World Web
[ ] World Wide Web
2. The web is made up of 'pages' which are read by .......
[ ] web browsers
[ ] web bruisers
[ ] web dowsers
[ ] web wowsers
3. Which is not an advantage of using the web?
[ ] Can provide cheap advertising
[ ] It can be hard to find the information you need
[ ] Offers a wide range of sources on many topics
[ ] Provides a huge potential audience
4. Some software documentation is web based only .......
[ ] because it can reach a wider audience
[ ] because it is better for the user
[ ] because it is cheaper to produce
[ ] because it is what all users want
5. Web pages are made using HTML - what does this stand for?
[ ] Hard To Makeout Language
[ ] Hyper Tough Makeup Language
[ ] HyperText Madeup Language
[ ] HyperText Markup Language
6. HTML tells the web browser .......
[ ] how to display information on the page
[ ] which document to search for
[ ] which ISP to use
[ ] which search engine to use
7. Which is not a reason for using web page headers?
[ ] To indicate important text in a document
[ ] To improve chances of being found by a search engine
[ ] To make the document content more interesting
[ ] To structure a document
8. Web pages usually contain text. The text should .......
[ ] use a few font styles
[ ] use a lot of different font colours
[ ] use lots of different font sizes
[ ] use lots of different font styles
9. Web pages sometimes have a background colour or image. Which of the following statements is not false?
[ ] A background is OK if it is not distracting and text remains easy to read
[ ] All websites have interesting background images
[ ] Backgrounds should always be a really good photograph of the web designer's pet or family
[ ] The more detailed and colourful, the better
10. Young children often prefer web pages with .......
[ ] lots of adverts for banks
[ ] lots of images
[ ] lots of popups
[ ] lots of text

You can find more about this topic by visiting BBC Bitesize - Internet communication

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ICT Quiz - Web Publishing 01 (Answers)
1. The letters WWW stand for what?
[ ] Wet Wet Wet
[ ] What When Where
[ ] Wide World Web
[x] World Wide Web
The person credited with inventing the World Wide Web is Tim Berners-Lee
2. The web is made up of 'pages' which are read by .......
[x] web browsers
[ ] web bruisers
[ ] web dowsers
[ ] web wowsers
There are many different web browsers available
3. Which is not an advantage of using the web?
[ ] Can provide cheap advertising
[x] It can be hard to find the information you need
[ ] Offers a wide range of sources on many topics
[ ] Provides a huge potential audience
The huge amount of material means that it can sometimes take a while to find exactly the information that you are looking for. It also takes time to check if the information is valid and reliable
4. Some software documentation is web based only .......
[ ] because it can reach a wider audience
[ ] because it is better for the user
[x] because it is cheaper to produce
[ ] because it is what all users want
Printed documentation costs much more to produce
5. Web pages are made using HTML - what does this stand for?
[ ] Hard To Makeout Language
[ ] Hyper Tough Makeup Language
[ ] HyperText Madeup Language
[x] HyperText Markup Language
HTML is written using tags
6. HTML tells the web browser .......
[x] how to display information on the page
[ ] which document to search for
[ ] which ISP to use
[ ] which search engine to use
You also need styles to tell the browser what fonts and colours to use
7. Which is not a reason for using web page headers?
[ ] To indicate important text in a document
[ ] To improve chances of being found by a search engine
[x] To make the document content more interesting
[ ] To structure a document
A header is the top part of the web page that appears on most of the pages of a website. The content of a web page is separate from the header
8. Web pages usually contain text. The text should .......
[x] use a few font styles
[ ] use a lot of different font colours
[ ] use lots of different font sizes
[ ] use lots of different font styles
Too many different fonts, colours and sizes make any document difficult to read and it looks messy
9. Web pages sometimes have a background colour or image. Which of the following statements is not false?
[x] A background is OK if it is not distracting and text remains easy to read
[ ] All websites have interesting background images
[ ] Backgrounds should always be a really good photograph of the web designer's pet or family
[ ] The more detailed and colourful, the better
Businesses usually use a plain background so that it does not distract the visitor from the main information
10. Young children often prefer web pages with .......
[ ] lots of adverts for banks
[x] lots of images
[ ] lots of popups
[ ] lots of text
Web page design should consider the target viewer