Grade 1360 periodsHigh-yield unit
Web Development
Develops websites incorporating multi-media technologies (using HTML 5)
Exam objectives
- Describe the WWW and classify website types: informational, personal, educational, commercial, portal
Important areas to cover
- Mostly conceptual/MCQ material
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Exam objectives
- Plan a website's objectives, page content and navigation structure before building it
Important areas to cover
- Sometimes combined with the HTML essay question as a planning sub-part
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- Use html/head/title/body structure tags correctly
- Apply text-formatting tags: headings, paragraph, line break, bold/italic/underline, font size/colour
Important areas to cover
- Writing a minimal valid HTML page skeleton from memory is a reliable warm-up mark
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Exam objectives
- Create hyperlinks — bookmark, local link, external link — between pages and sections
- Build ordered/unordered/definition lists and tables, including merged cells, with correct tags
- Embed images, audio and video in a page
Important areas to cover
- Writing a complete multi-page HTML site with working links, a table and an image is the single largest essay-length question in the Web unit — highest priority for hands-on practice
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- Write CSS using element, id, class and group selectors with correct syntax
- Apply internal, external and inline CSS to format backgrounds, text, links, lists and tables
Important areas to cover
- Writing CSS rules to restyle a given HTML page is a recurring essay component paired with 10.4
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- Use a web authoring tool practically to build web pages
Important areas to cover
- Mostly practical/school-based assessment; light theory-exam weight
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- Embed PHP — variables, arrays, control structures, functions — into a web page
- Connect PHP to MySQL to save and retrieve form data
- Build an HTML form (text/password inputs, radio, checkbox, select, submit) that posts to a PHP script
Important areas to cover
- A combined form + PHP + MySQL question appears in schools that go deep here, though this competency carries fewer periods than core HTML/CSS
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Exam objectives
- Publish a website locally and to a free web-hosting service
- Identify factors affecting website performance
Important areas to cover
- Usually a short conceptual question on publishing steps and performance factors
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