The Internet and the Web

I'll continue on the basic types of Website:
- Advocacy
Contains content that describes a cause, opinion,or idea
- Blog
Short for Weblog
Uses a regularly updated journal format to reflect the interests, opinions, and personalities of the author and sometimes site visitors
Often in chronological order that best describe personal
- Wiki
Collaborative Web site that allows users to create, add to, modify, or delete the Web site content via their Web browser
Open public for everybody
- Online social network
Encourages members to share their interests, ideas, stories, photos, music, and videos
Media sharing Web site
- Content Aggregator
Business that gathers and organizes Web content and then distributes, or feeds, the content to subscribers for free or a fee
- Personal Web site
Web page maintained by private individual or family
Reasons: sharing life experience with the world or job hunting

What are the guidelines for evaluating the value of a Web site?

Affiliation
Audience
Authority
Content
Currency
Design
Objectivity

What is multimedia?
Application combining text with other media elements:
§Graphics
§Animation
§Audio
§Video
§Virtual reality
§Plug-ins

What graphics formats are used on the Web?
BMP,GIF,JPEG,PNG,TIFF

Images often displayed by thumbnail-a small icon that present the image in smaller size. Whenever you click on it, often the full size image will appear. This reduced the display time of the web page that included many images to load.

What is animation?

Appearance of motion created bydisplaying a series of still images in sequence. Animation is used very often on the Web for advertising and decoration.

The Internet and the Web

Today, I'll discuss more about the Internet and the Web.

How can you gain access to a web page?

- Whenever you type a correct address on your address bar, the web server delivers the web page to your computer.

What is downloading?

- With some specific programs and depends on your connection speed. You can download anything from the Internet (music, videos, datas, programs,.... ) in an amount of time by few seconds if your connection speed is fast or few hours if slow.

How can you recognize links?

- Pointer changes to a small hand when you point to a link

- A link can be text or an image

- Text links are usually underlined and in a different color

How can you search forwebpages that have the imformation you are looking for?

- There are some websites that provide the search engine. When you type a search text or keyword about what you want to search for. A list of web pages containing that keyword will appear so that when you click on it, it will lead you directly to that website.

The most common search engine web page is Google (http://www.google.com/)

What are the twelve basic types of Web sites?

- Portal, News, Informational, Business - Marketing, Educational, Entertainment, Advocacy, Blog, Wiki, Social Network, Content Aggrigator, Personal.



- Portal

A Web site that offers a variety of services from one, convenient location, usually for free

- News

Contains newsworthy material

Stories and articles relating to current events, life, money, sports, and the weather

- Informational
Contains factual information
Created by organizations and government agencies

- Business - Marketing
Contains content that promotes products or services
Allows you to purchase products or services online

- Educational
Offers avenues for formal and informal teachingand learning

Online classes and database, online library
- Entertainment

Offers an interactive and engaging environment featuring music, videos, sports, games, ongoing Web episodes, sweepstakes, chats, and more

I, as a teenager, like the Entertainment websites most that I can meet and communicate with my friends and share our ideas.