ASSIGNMENT 4

ASSIGNMENT 4

1) Differentiate between a form and a report.

A form is generally used to add/update/delete records. A report is a readonly view of the data, you would like to see.

To give you a dumb example, you can assume a test question paper a form & a report card (which shows your grades), a report :)

A real example could be - when you borrow a book from the library, the software will use some sort of form to update the inventory & keep note of who the book is given to. A report in this example, could be - list of all books borrowed in this week.

2) Identify several general guidelines for the design of forms and reports.

A business document that contains some pre-defined data and may include some areas where additional data are to be filled in.

Forms can be printed, onscreen and static, or onscreen and interactive

Often, an instance of form is one database record.

Focus of forms in this part of lecture on screen design and layout not navigation and interaction

A business document that contains only pre-defined data; it is a passive document used only for reading and viewing.

A report typically contains data from many unrelated records and transactions.

3) Identify nine common errors that occur when designing the layout of Web pages.

Hyperlinks are designed to be clicked, so to make them usable, it makes sense to ensure that they're easy to click. Here's an example of links that are far too small; clicking them is harder than it should be.

Why would we want a larger clickable area? Simple. Because our hand movement with the mouse isn't very precise. A large clickable area makes it easier to hover the mouse cursor over the link. To ensure we get a large clickable area, we could either make the whole link bigger ...