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Question / Answer

1) What is a web browser?
Application to view HTML and other web documents

2) Name 5 common browsers
Firefox, Safari, Opera, Internet Explorer, Mozilla

3) What is the ppi for a Macintosh?
72

4) What is the ppi for a Windows?
96

5) How many colors does your monitor display?
256k

6) What is a viewport?
The viewport is the meat and bones of the site
(the site not including the grey area of the browser that you can see when it opens)


7) How big is the active viewport for the Oswego website
(take a screen capture and measure it)

Width---> ~779 Pixels
Height---> ~856 Pixels


8) How big is the viewport for Amazon?
Width---> ~1194
Height---> ~884


9) What is a websafe color?
The colors which can be displayed on all monitors. A good list can be found here

10) What is ftp?
File Transfer Protocol -- used to transfer files to and from a server

11) What is a server?
Hosts files on the web, allows for other computers to access those files

12) What is the Oswego server called? Who is it named after?
It's called Rocky, it's named after Rocky from the rocky & bullwinkle show