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How to Single Source
How to Interdesign
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100
What is one single sourcing principle?
What is DRY, KISS, Least Knowledge or Only Talk to Your Friends, Single Responsibility, or Abstraction and Generalization.
100
Name one of the Wayfinding techniques?
What is orientation, route decisions, mental mapping, or closure.
100
What is the most important part of website design?
What is clear navigation aids.
100
What is one type of mental mapping?
What is paths, regions, nodes, or landmarks.
100
What are the primary elements of web search?
What is links and individual web pages.
200
What is the meaning of DRY principle?
What is Don't Repeat Yourself, a way to reuse content instead of rewriting it.
200
What is one type of interface design convention layout?
What is header, footer, local navigation, and content element.
200
Proper use of what is the key to getting maximum flexibility and return on your investment in web content?
What is HTML.
200
Where should a user be able to easily return to?
What is home page.
200
What is the long tail of web search?
What is a few items that are overwhelmingly popular, and everything else gets relatively little attention.
300
What is the definition of Single Sourcing?
What is a process where you write content in one place and publish said content to several different output formats.
300
Give the two components of functional stability?
What is getting things right the first time as you design the site, and then keeping things functioning smoothly over time.
300
What in a properly formed HTML that all web page codes contained?
What is head and body.
300
How many clicks does it take in design site hierarchy to get to real content?
What is click or two.
300
What will get you to the first page of search results?
What is good content and many reference links from other highly ranked web sites.
400
Define the Principle of Least Knowledge, or Only Talk to Your Friends?
What is making sure topics "stand alone," link or connect to other topics, as if they are a close "friend."
400
What is the saying for interface design convention?
What is interface is the fame, not the painting.
400
Name 2 elements that a properly structured HTML document may contain?
What is structure, text content, semantic markup, visual presentation, links to audiovisual content, and interactive behavior.
400
What should web documents be designed to conform to?
What is The Chicago Manual of Style conventions for editorial style and text organization.
400
Name 2 things that search engine crawlers cannot "see" on your web pages?
What is display text within graphics, flash animations, pages with little text content, site navigation that uses "rollover", navigation links that depend on JavaScript, content features, Microsoft office documents and acrobat pdf.
500
What is the best system to use for storing information asset in one location?
What is DITA system.
500
Name 3 things that web page headers convey?
What is identity, providing major navigation links, or search boxes.
500
Name 3 things that every web page needs?
What is informative title, creator's identity, creation or revision date, copyright statement (or other statement of ownership, home page url, or one link to a local home page or menu page.
500
Name 3 things that give users confidence so that they can find what they are seeking?
What is clear consistent icons, graphic identity schemes, page titles and headings, or graphic-/text-based overview and summary screens.
500
Name everything that will optimize your pages for search?
What is write for readers, not for search engines; every page of your site must explain itself fully with accurate titles, headers, keywords, informative linked text, and navigation links to other pages in your site.