Creating a Basic Webpage (Essential Vocabulary)

Creating a Basic Multimedia Webpage

Essential Vocabulary

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) – code behind every webpage.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL) – special address system or another way of saying web site address.

Hyperlinks - text, buttons, or graphics that links to other web pages.

Multimedia –combination of text, video, graphics, and music or sound.

Text – printed information on a page. Video – recording of still images in digital form.

Sound – a form of energy produced by vibrations that act on the ear so that we can hear (Technology Interactions, p. 115)

Joint Photographics Exchange Group (JPEG) – compression method for photographs.

Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) – bitmap images that supports line art and animations.

Portable Network Graphics (PNG) – newer format for line art and photographs which preserves image data better.

NotePad – a text editor application for manually coding HTML.

Storyboard – series of sketches that can be used as a guide for designing a web page.

Headings – HTML font sizes for text headings that varies from 1 to 6 with 1 being the largest and 6 the smallest.

Tags – HTML instructions. For example,<Title>My First Web Page</Title>

Hexadecimals – six digit numbers which instruct a browser how to create a particular color. For example, #009900 is GREEN.

Domain – name of the Internet provider. For example, [email protected]

Zone – the third part, after the dot, of an email or web site address. For example, [email protected]

Bandwith – the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time.

Web hosting – Internet service that allows individuals or organizations to publish their web pages to the World Wide Web for free or for a fee.

Zones in the United States include:.com Commercial firms and online

services.gov Government offices.edu Educational organizations (usually

schools and colleges)

.mil Military site

.net Networks

.org Nonprofit organizations

Harms, H. R. & Swernofsky, N. R. (1999) Technology Interactions. New York, NY: Glencoe McGraw-Hill.

Reding, E. E. & Vodnik, S. HTML – Illustrated Brief, Second Edition. Boston, MA: Course Technology.

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http://www.gifanimations.com/GA/animation/ImageDisplay/1/28/30

Microsoft Clipart Gallery www.imageenvision.com

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