WEEK 3

• The text editor you will be using to manually encode the Web page files. Notepad
• The Web browser you will be using to view the Web page files.
• Notepad++ is a text editor. This software has helpful features such as syntax highlighting when working with programming, scripting, and markup languages.
• HTML stands for hypertext markup language. It is used to create web pages and is responsible for their content and structure.
• HTML Tags tell browsers and other software how they should process the content they contain. HTML tags use angle brackets <>.

   
• DOCTYPE declaration tells a browser which version of HTML the page is using.

   
• Structural markup the elements that you can use to describe both headings and paragraphs
• Paragraph Elements are used to define paragraphs within an HTML document. You can have multiple paragraphs within one set of opening and closing p tags.
• List Markup allows us to display lists of items on our webpages. There are two types of lists - ordered and unordered.
• Heading Elements are used to define headings within an HTML document. There are six heading levels from h1 through to h6.
• Unordered List Markup is used to display bullets next to items in your list. The ul tag defines the list itself while li tags define individual items within it.
• Ordered Lists (Numbered) are displayed with numbers or letters, depending on the type of list you choose. They're useful when you want to show a sequence of steps or events.
• The ol element creates an ordered list. It contains all the items in the list.
• Semantic markup

   

  • which provides extra information, such as where emphasis is placed in a sentence, that something you have written is a quotation (and who said it), the meaning of acronyms, and so on
• Multimedia

  A combination of the different forms of media such as text, pictures, sounds, music, animation, and video.
• Graphics

  is a broad term that encompasses visual elements and designs created for various purposes.
• Content graphics

  used to represent data of some sort. This category includes data graphs and charts, maps, pictures of products, and screen prints.
• Thematic (also termed decorative)

  graphics are purely for embellishment, controlling focus, and support of branding. Examples include logos, decorative photos, borders, dingbats, and custom bullets.
• Navigational graphics

  are unique to the web and include clickablebuttons, standalone icons, or icons adjacent to text links.
• "image"

  refers specifically to a visual representation or depiction of an object, scene, or concept.
• File compression

  process of creating a smaller output from a larger input, in order to sparing storage space, or saving bandwidth to share the data, or reduce the input to a suitable size for a media of distribution
• Lossy compression

  is a type of compression where a certain amount of information is discarded.
• Lossless compression

  educes a file's size with no loss of quality.
• JPG

  ·        stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.

  ·        It uses either a .jpg or .jpeg file extension.
• GIF

  Graphics Interchange Format, works best for line-based images with areas of solid color, such as cartoons, diagrams, line art, and graphic text
• PNG

  (Portable Network Graphics, pronounced “ping”) is a newergraphics format.
• Anti-aliasing

  Curved or diagonal lines are particularly problematic, because pixels can present an obviously jagged, stair-step appearance (termed “aliased”). Remedies for the “jaggies”. Which refers to a technique for smoothing the jagged, pixelated appearance of a diagonal or curved line on a screen display.
• Transparency

  which the web page background shows through areas of the image designated as transparent
• Interlacing

  refers to an alternate way to load an image.