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[Jake McGraw]

I'd only keep the last two questions:

9) Why use Flash in web development? Why not?

10) Why is "separation of style and content" recommended in web
development?

I think the other questions would be incredibly ineffective in
determining the abilities of a possible employee. All of them could be
picked up in a matter of hours, while the knowledge and experience
required to answer the last two questions is a far better indicator of
of a talented developer. Also, an inability to answer any one of the
CSS questions wouldn't necessarily be an indication of lack of talent,
I think it took me quite a few months to stop checking my CSS cheat
sheet before I memorized Top Right Bottom Left!

Any webmaster/developer with two REAL (full time tech company) years
of experience would be able to have a much more in depth conversation
about web design philosophy, best practices and commonly accepted
methods of accomplishing a given task. This worksheet looks like it
might be appropriate for 1. Straight out of college or 2. Hobbyist web
developer (no CS degree). I'd take the requirement of 2 years off, so
that you attract inexperienced but technically talented recent grad
and hand them an O'Reilly book on day one.

- jake

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:07 AM, André Pitanga <andre at pitanga.org> wrote:
> So, we're hiring a new webmaster here at work and I was tasked with
> producing a simple technical test. The person is supposed to have two years
> experience as a web dev. There's three parts: html, css, and webmaster
> questions. What do you think?
>  (bonus: I'll tell you what my manager thought)
>
>  HTML
>
>  1) Which HTML attribute is used to define inline styles?
>       a) font
>       b) styles
>       c) css
>       d) text
>       e) style
>
>  2) What is the correct HTML for referring to an external style sheet?
>       a) <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mainstyle.css">
>       b) <style src="mainstyle.css">
>       c) <stylesheet>mainstyle.css</stylesheet>
>       d) <link url="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="mainstyle.css">
>
>  3) Which HTML tag is used to define an internal style sheet?
>       a) <script>
>       b) <css>
>       c) <stylesheet>
>       d) <style>
>
>  CSS
>
>  4) Which is the correct CSS syntax?
>       a) body {color: black}
>       b) body:color=black
>       c) {body:color=black}
>       d) {body color:black}
>
>  5) How does one set a border like this:
>
>    The top border = 10 pixels, The bottom border = 5 pixels, The left
>  border = 20 pixels, The right border = 1pixel.
>
>       a) border-width:10px 20px 5px 1px
>       b) border-width:10px 1px 5px 20px
>       c) border-width:10px 5px 20px 1px
>       d) border-width:5px 20px 10px 1px
>
>  6) What are the three methods for using style sheets with a web page
>       a) Dreamweaver, GoLive or FrontPage
>       b) In-Line, External or Embedded
>       c) Handcoded, Database-driven or WYSIWYG
>
>  PROGRAMMING
>
>  7) a and b are variables.
>
>    a = 10
>    b = 20
>    a = b
>
>    The new values of a and b are, respectively:
>
>  WEBMASTER
>
>  8) What factors determine your recommended maximum home page size (in
>  kilobytes)? How are the factors related?
>
>  9) Why use Flash in web development? Why not?
>
>  10) Why is "separation of style and content" recommended in web
>  development?
>
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