(p.4) The Internet began as a military research project in the late ________.

(p.4) DSL stands for ________

(p.4) ISDN stands for ________.

(p.4) ISP stands for ________.

(p.4) Cable modems can achieve speeds of up to ________ Mbps.

(p.5) The Internet infrastructure relies on a variety of ________ that dictate how computers and networks talk to each other.

(p.5) TCP/IP stands for ________

(p.5) HTTP stands for ________.

(p.5) Web pages are stored on ________, which are Internet-connected computers running software that allows them to serve up information to other computers.

(p.5) URL which is short for ________.

(p.5) ________ are clickable words or images on Web pages.

(p.5) A Web ________ is software that allows you to view and interact with Web pages.

(p.5 & p.8) All web browsers display web pages exactly the same.

(p.6) You build Web pages using HTML, which is short for ________.

(p.6) HTML documents are made up of text content and special codes known as ________ that tell Web browsers how to display the content.

(p.6) HTML documents are identified by their .html or .htm file ________.

(p.6) For the most part, HTML is ________ independent, which means you can view Web pages on any computer operating system.

(p.6) Surrounded by ________, HTML tags tell a browser how to organize and present text, images, and other Web page content.

(p.6) Many tags are written using an opening tag and a closing tag that ________ content that appears on the page.

(p.6) When writing HTML tags, you can use upper- or lowercase letters.

(p.6) When a browser displays a Web page, it retrieves the HTML file for that page from a server, parses the HTML tags to determine how the content should be formatted, and ________ the page.

(p.7) The abbreviation for World Wide Web Consortium is ________.

(p.7) HTML Version 4.01 includes support for ________, which is especially important because it allows developers to apply more precise formatting to Web pages.

(p.7) Style sheets also allow developers to keep complex styling information ________ from the rest of the HTML.

(p.7) XHTML stands for ________.

(p.7) XHTML is tag-based and uses many of the same tags as in HTML; however, in XHTML, all tags must be closed, tag names and attributes must be coded in lowercase, and attribute values for tags must be surrounded by ________.

(p.7) The next version of HTML is HTML ________.

(p.8) A Web browser is software that can retrieve HTML documents from the Web, ________ the HTML instructions, and display the resulting Web pages.

(p.8) You can also use a browser to display HTML documents you save ________ on your computer.

(p.8) When coding your HTML, you can use a Web browser to ________ your work.

(p.9) Because HTML documents are ________ documents, you can use any text-editing program to code HTML and create a Web page.

(p.9) Plain-text editors are easy to find; Microsoft Windows comes with ________, while Apple Mac computers come with TextEdit.

(p.10) HTML rules, or ________, govern the way in which code is written.

(p.10) Closing tags must always include a ________ before the tag name.

(p.11) You can assign specific ________ to each HTML tag to customize its behavior.

(p.11) Most attributes work by setting a numeric or descriptive ________.

(p.11) Attributes always go inside the opening HTML tag, and it is good form to enclose attribute values in ________.

(p.11) You can add special characters to a page, such as a copyright symbol or a fraction, by using special codes called ________.

(p.11) Entities represent characters not readily available on the ________.

(p.11) All entities are preceded by an ampersand (&) and followed by a ________.

(p.11) To avoid HTML errors, always take the time to ________ your code.

(p.11) Most HTML editors have features that ________ bad syntax.

(p.11) Multiple HTML tags should be properly ________, meaning your closing tags should be in the reverse order of the opening tags.

(p.11) To help make your HTML readable, consider using new lines to type code instead of running everything together on one long line; doing so will not affect how your page is displayed, because Web browsers ignore extra ________.

(p.14) A Web site is a group of related Web pages, all hyperlinked together and ________ on a server.

(p.14) It is important to understand the audience that will visit the pages on your Web site; it is important to know their ________ ability so that you can use language they are comfortable with.

(p.14) It is also important to know the ________ of your audience so that you can present imagery and other content that will keep them interested and at your site.

(p.14) The ________ page is usually the first page a visitor sees when visiting a Web site, so it is important that it concisely communicate the site’s purpose and what information users can expect to find.

(p.15) A useful tool for planning your site’s overall structure is a ________, which represents your Web pages as boxes and the hyperlinks as arrows.

(p.15) A ________ site layout moves the user through your content in a step-by-step fashion, like pages in a book.

(p.15) A ________ layout resembles a pyramid, with the home page at the top and other pages fanning out from there.

(p.15) After you plan the pages and structure of your site, you need to gather the ________.