Quiz: Should you design your own website?

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Question MarkShould you design your own website? Can it really be that difficult? Isn't everyone doing it? Take this little quiz and find out if you should give it a try?

  1. The function of the Internet "Domain Name System (DNS)" is to
    1. Act as the Internet's "Phone Book"
    2. Convert hostnames into IP addresses
    3. Convert long numerical addresses into human readable form
    4. All of the above
  2. The most important factor in getting a good ranking on Google is
    1. Informative and readable textual content
    2. Get all your friends and everyone else to add a link to your website
    3. Respond to blogs and forums and put your website name in every paragraph
    4. Include lots of graphics, flash, background music and neat little buttons on your website
  3. The acronym CSS stands for
    1. Cool System Site
    2. Colorized Symbolic Sorting
    3. Cascading Style Sheet
    4. Critical Standby System
  4. The best color selections for a website are
    1. Dark colors with muted text
    2. Patriotic colors: red, white and blue!
    3. Light or pastel backgrounds with dark or black text
    4. Medium blues, greens, and red tones and text primarily black on white
  5. The length of a web page should be
    1. As long as it takes to say everything
    2. Depends on the page and the type of site you are presenting
    3. Every page should fit within one screen length
    4. It doesn't matter as long as the information presented is interesting
  6. All it takes to set up a web site is
    1. Set up a free page on my internet provider or order one through Yahoo!
    2. Order a domain name through Network Solutions and have them provide my web pages
    3. Have a teenager do everything for me because he or she really knows computers
    4. None of the above
  7. When ordering a new domain name and hosting services, you should
    1. Use one of the original registry companies like Network Solutions or Register.com
    2. Order a domain name through Yahoo! or one of the other large web portal companies
    3. Respond to an unsolicited email advertisement (the "S" word) for cheap domains and hosting
    4. None of the above
  8. In order to get visitors to my web site, I must
    1. Send out unsolicited emails to all my friends and addresses on lists I can buy
    2. Place a lot of ads using Google AdWords and Yahoo! Small Business Search
    3. Run ads in the newspaper and on Craigslist with my domain name
    4. Create a good looking website, optimized for the search engines, and then provide readable, interesting and updated content for my readers.
  9. A "business card" website means
    1. You take pictures of all your business cards and post them on your home page
    2. You take pictures of all your friends and favorite businesses and post them
    3. The design of the webpages look exactly like a printed business card
    4. A website that is intended to explain who you are, what you do, and how to contact you.
  10. META tags perform the following functions
    1. Hidden programming that creates the page title at the top of the browser screen
    2. Makes those popups and banner ads appear on a site.
    3. Create the description and keyword lists used and sometimes displayed by search directories.
    4. create links to other websites and are usually listed along the sides of the web page

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