Tutorial 2, CIS133DA

Instructor: Phil Waclawski
Spring 2009

Student Name _______________

  1. Where was the world wide web invented, and who is credited with inventing it and HTML?

  2. What are the three definitions of a "Home Page" that are in common use?

  3. How do you set the default home page for your browser:
    1. For Firefox:

    2. For Internet Explorer?

  4. for http://www.felitaur.com/internet/cis133da/index.html explain the following:
    1. Which part is the protocol? What does the protocol mean?

    2. Which part is the domain name? What is it's top level domain?

    3. Does a URL have to start with www if it is a web site?

    4. Does a URL have to include a filename? If not, what page does it load if you don't have a filename?

  5. You go to a page like...www.mapedit.com and it forwards you to another page. So you hit the back button...and it forwards you back to that other page. How can you use the history function of your browser to get by this?

  6. How do you force the web browser to reload a page from the web, and not the cache?

  7. Find two web sites that talk about copyright issues on the internet, and paste the URLS here. From reading them, do you have to put a © symbol, or say copyright on a web page image for it to be protected?

  8. What is a cookie? Why are they helpful? Why do some folks think they are bad?

  9. Name two web browsers OTHER than Firefox, Mozilla or IE (give links to their homepages).

  10. How do you change your default font in:
    1. Firefox:

    2. Internet Explorer: