www: World wide web
Blog: read, write, or edit a shared on-line journal
Internet: a computer network consisting of a worldwide network of computer networks that use the TCP/IP network protocols to facilitate data transmission and exchange
Website: a computer connected to the internet that maintains a series of web pages on the World Wide Web;
URL: Uniform Resource Locator the address of a web page on the world wide web
Modem: A modem is defined as a device used to connect the computer to a telephone line, often for the purpose of connecting to on-line services. A modem can either be located internally in the PC, or can be an external device.
Image: picture: a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface; "they showed us the pictures of their wedding"; "a movie is a series of images projected so rapidly that the eye integrates them"
GIF: The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
PDF: Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. PDF is used for representing two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application software, hardware, and operating system.Adobe Systems Incorporated
Embed: implant: fix or set securely or deeply; "He planted a knee in the back of his opponent"; "The dentist implanted a tooth in the gum"
Applications: Application software, also known as software application, application or app, is computer software designed to help the user to perform a singular or multiple related specific tasks. Typical examples are word processors, spreadsheets, media players and database applications
Gadget: A gadget is a small technological object (such as a device or an appliance) that has a particular function, but is often thought of as a novelty. Gadgets are invariably considered to be more unusually or cleverly designed than normal technological objects at the time of their invention.
Cybersafety: refers to the safe use of the Internet and ICT equipment/devices, including mobile phones.
HTML: hypertext markup language: a set of tags and rules (conforming to SGML) for using them in developing hypertext documents
Bitmal image: In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits
Vector image: Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.
Flash: a sudden intense burst of radiant energy
Website Design Principles
- What different types of websites are there e.g. informative,there are alot of different types of websites for eg there are sport,news,intertainment,games and alot more.
- What are the benefits of having a website? people can share there opinion and there thoughts depending on what type of website you make.
- What are 'documents' online? create and share your documents online and you can access them from anywhere around the world.
- What purpose does a 'web map' serve? for publishing spatial data and interactive mapping applications to the web. ... MapServer is not a full-featured GIS system
- What are 'links'? links are an address that followes after the website name and when clicking on them they take you to where you saved the link from.
- Discuss why it is important to identify the potential users of a website. before letting anyone use your website you should check who they are and if they are safe incase of cyber bullying or other threats.
- What are the 8 golden rules of good web design?
1 Strive for consistency
2 Enable frequent users to use shortcuts.
3 Offer informative feedback.
4 Design dialog to yield closure
5 Offer simple error handling
6 Permit easy reversal of actions.
7 Support internal locus of control.
8 Reduce short-term memory load.
2 Enable frequent users to use shortcuts.
3 Offer informative feedback.
4 Design dialog to yield closure
5 Offer simple error handling
6 Permit easy reversal of actions.
7 Support internal locus of control.
8 Reduce short-term memory load.
- What are the principles of good web design?
- Discuss why it is important to test, evaluate and update your website? Testing your Website should include testing each Web page for: HTML validation, load time, browser compatibility, bad links and spelling errors.
