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.