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When was the world's first website created?
August 6th, 1991 – The World Wide Web (WWW) creator, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world's first website at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html. Unfortunately, the original website has not been preserved until today and the link shows only its 1992 copy.
- 1986
- 1991
- 1992
- 1995
In which year did the first web banner appear on the Internet?
October 27th, 1994 – The AT&T Telecommunications Company placed the first web banner in Internet history on the HotWired magazine website. The first web banner in the world was 476x56 px.
- 1990
- 1991
- 1994
- 1998
In which year was the first version of JavaScript 1.0 released?
December 4th, 1995 – Brendan Eich of Netscape designed the first version of an object-oriented JavaScript that became widely used to create interactive websites.
- 1995
- 1999
- 2000
- 2003
From which year is this Apple website?
- 1996
- 1997
- 2001
- 2012
What does the abbreviation CSS mean in web design?
The first proposal of "Cascading HTML Style Sheets" was published in October 1994 by a Norwegian programmer Håkon Wium Lie, who was working at CERN under Tim Berners-Lee at the time.
- Cascading Share Styles
- Cascading Support Sheeps
- Cascading Style Source
- Cascading Style Sheets
In which year did W3C.org issue an official HTML 4.0 recommendation?
December 18th, 1997 – W3C published official recommendations for the HTML 4.0 specification. The HTML 4.0 specification was divided into three variants: Strict, Transitional, and Frameset.
- 1992
- 1997
- 2008
- 2013
In which year did Jeffrey Zeldman first publish the book Designing with Web Standards?
May 14th, 2003 – Web designer and founder of A List Apart magazine, Jeffrey Zeldman, published a book entitled Designing with Web Standards. In his book, Zeldman explores the benefits of implementing web standards.
- 1995
- 1999
- 2003
- 2012
From which year is this Google website?
- 1995
- 1998
- 2005
- 2016
In which year was Smashing Magazine, a portal for web designers and developers, created?
August, 2006 – Sven Lennartz and Vitaly Friedman created a portal for web designers and developers called Smashing Magazine. The portal is currently the most visited web site for web design and related fields.
- 1998
- 2001
- 2006
- 2013
In which year was the first version of the Sketch 1.0 graphics editor released?
September 7th, 2010 – The Dutch company Bohemian Coding released the vector graphics editor Sketch 1.0. Sketch is designed for MacOS only and has gained a lot of popularity among the web design community over the recent years.
- 1996
- 2002
- 2005
- 2010
In which year was Yahoo portal launched?
January, 1994 – Jerry Yang and David Filo, two Ph.D. students from Stanford University, created a list of websites entitled "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web." In March 1994, the portal was renamed Yahoo!
- 1992
- 1994
- 2000
- 2001
From which year is this Facebook website?
- 2004
- 2012
- 2013
- 2016
Who is the author of Don't Make Me Think?
October 13th, 2000 – Steve Krug, a UX designer and information architect, published Don’t Make Me Think. The book deals with web usability and the interdisciplinary field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
- Jeffrey Zeldman
- Jakob Nielsen
- Tim Berners-Lee
- Steve Krug
In which year was the Backstreet Boys website created?
- 1993
- 1996
- 2009
- 2012
What does the abbreviation BEM mean in web design?
March, 2005 – A team of developers of the Russian search engine Yandex began working on a new methodology that allowed for unambiguous naming of classes in CSS. In 2009, the new CSS naming convention was called BEM, standing for Block, Element, Modifier.
- Block, Element, Modifier
- Block, Element, Modal
- Black, Element, Modifier
- Blue, Element, Mode
In which year were CSS Awards for creative and innovative web design founded?
September 23rd, 2009 – A prestigious gallery of highly creative and innovative CSS-based websites in terms of design was launched under the name CSS Awards. On February 24, 2011, the portal was named Awwwards.
- 2000
- 2009
- 2014
- 2015
In which year was the first version of the Bootstrap CSS framework created?
August 19th, 2011 – Web developers Mark Otto and Jacob Thorton of Twitter began creating the CSS framework Bootstrap in mid-2011. In August 2011, Bootstrap 1 was released as an open source tool.
- 1998
- 2011
- 2014
- 2016
In which year did Ethan Marcotte publish his article “Responsive Web Design” defining the basics of responsive web design?
May 25th, 2010 – Web designer Ethan Marcotte published an article entitled "Responsive Web Design" in the online magazine A List Apart. The author describes a new way of styling HTML documents which allows for an optimization of website content display with regard to resolution or display size.
- 1999
- 2001
- 2004
- 2010
In which version of HTML did the <canvas> element first appear?
The HTML5 version has brought an improved browser multimedia playback support, new semantic tags that better define page structure, offline application support, and the <canvas> tag that can interpret vector graphics with an option to insert images.
- HTML 2.0
- HTML 3.2
- HTML5
- XHTML
Which company developed the design style known as Material Design?
June 25th, 2014 – Google introduced a new graphic style called Material Design at the Google I/O conference. Since 2015, Google has redesigned most of its applications and services using the consistent visual style of Material Design.
- Apple
- Yahoo