Test Flashcards
- Most Web sites use this navigation approach, in which there is no established or predefined order for viewing the contents of a Web site.
a. Nonlinear
- This feature gives the user control over the content
a. Interactivity
- Search Engines that give priority placement to those offering top bidding for keywords
a. Pay-per-click
- This browser was the first cross-platform, graphical-user interface web browser that fully exploited the webs hypermedia capability.
a. Mosaic
- The Internet was a result of this project.
a. ARPNET
- This person evaluates the design of the site and the intuitiveness of the user interface.
a. Tester
- Term used to describe solutions for companies, small or large, that wish to sell products or services through the internet.
a. E-commerce
- This person generally has a psychology background and is responsible for designing the onscreen elements with which the user will interact.
a. Interface Designer
- This term describes working with more than one type of digitized media element.
a. Multimedia
- Search engines that are selective, meaning that humans choose which sites to add to the database.
a. Directory-based
- This is a collection of sample work and projects that can be shared with potential customers and employers
a. Portfolio
- Search engines that automatically roam the WWW adding the contents of the web sites they visit to their database.
a. Spider based.
- This multimedia application allows students to take courses online.
a. Distance learning
- This person ensures that data input from users is properly verified and transmitted.
a. Web developer.
- This person is responsible for forming a project, moving it into production and overseeing its creation.
a. Project Manager
- Tag used to insert an inline image.
a. Img
- This attribute makes it possible for the Web page design to accommodate users by making it easy for them to download and install the appropriate plug-in or player.
a. Plugins Page
- Process by which files are transferred to the Web server.
a. FTP
- Prior to plug-ins and players, these programs were launched to play non-native HTML content.
a. Helper Application
- Programs that let you build great Web sites while maintaining pure XHTML code.
a. Web page editors
- The combination of a tag, an attribute and a value
a. Element
- Official standards committee for the Web
a. W3C
- These are used to modify tags.
a. Attributes
- Name most often recognised by Web server software as the home page or first page of a Web site.
a. Index.htm
- The most recent version of HTML
a. XHTML
- This provides the information the browser needs to display the Web page correctly.
a. Source code
- Program that allows users to play media content within the browser window.
a. Player
- Program that translates existing documents into XHTML
a. Conversion Tool
- These languages specify the structure, content or formatting of a Web page document.
a. Markup
- A beginning and ending tag with something in the middle.
a. Container
- Pointer to a numeric Web address
a. Domain Name
- This provides a summary of the design strategy.
a. Creative Brief
- This category of Web sites provides information and offers some form of interactivity such as e-mail, searches, questionnaires and order processing.
a. Dynamic
- Using this navigational structure, users must return to the home page to go to the other pages of the Web site.
a. Hub and spokes
- A network set up to be used by employees within the same organisation.
a. Intranet
- The name of the Web site category that includes little or no interactivity
a. Static
- This will help you define your target audience
a. User profile
- Organisation charged by the U.S. Department of Commerce to control authorised domain registries
a. ICANN
- These are diagrams of the layout of each page of the Web site.
a. Storyboard.
- This is the navigational structure that divides a screen into multiple Web pages.
a. Frames
- This type of organisational structure organises data using a top-down approach.
a. Hiearchicial
- The blueprint around which a consistent functional Web site is developed.
a. Web architecture
- A text-only skeletal structure of every click through possibility of your Web site.
a. Wireframe
- Web sites that use an internal search engine have this type of organisational structure
a. Database driven
- This is the navigational structure that prompts users for data upon entry to the Web site.
a. Directed
The means through which the user will navigate and interact with the Web site.
User interface
A miniature display of an image that is linkers to a larger version of the same image.
Thumbnail Image
Formatting specification that has made type design, layout and consistency easier to implement.
Cascading Style Sheet
Item that should be included on each Web page as assurance that the content being accessed is relevant and timely.
Last modified data
Process of arranging elements as horizontal or vertical mirrored images on both side of a center line.
symmetrical balance.
A technique in which a hyperlink appears as the cursor moves over a hot spot, such as in image or text.
mouseover
Lists of questions and answers that can save both the users and the company or organisation time and money.
FAQs
Colour scheme designed with all different shades of one colour.
monchromatic
Information that helps users determine where they are within the hierarchy of information on a Web site.
Contextual cue
A colour scheme and unified design elements for bullets, fonts, images, navigation bars and other media elements.
theme
Images that have been fine-tuned to download more rapidly.
optimized graphics
Colour in its purest form
hue
A Precise layout indicating where various elements will appear on the Web page.
template
Premise on which the Web is based.
cross-linking
A figurative representation that relates the content of a Web site to an established mental model.
metaphor
Fonts that are generally considered more contemporary and modern.
sans-serif
Fonts in which each character takes up the exact same amount of horizontal space.
monospaced
This CSS length unit makes no assumptions about screen resolution and window size.
realtive
This is another name for an embedded style
Internal
File format that required a reader in order to be displayed.
Style that should be avoided because it pixelates on the computer screen.
italics
The amount of space between lines of text.
leading
Set of type specifications that can be applied to a block of text, a single Web page or an entire Web site.
CSS
The art of arranging letterforms in space in any medium.
typography
A set of characters that all follow the same rules within the set.
typeface
Style that should be reserved for hyperlinks
underline
A set of characters within a typeface that has specific characteristics associated with it.
font
The amount of space between characters
kerning
Fonts that have feet or short lines at the ends of the strokes of each letter.
serif
Fonts that come pre-installed with the operating system on the user’s computer
default
Web graphic file format that supports variable transparency and gamma correction.
PNG
The process of converting a vector image to pixels or a bitmapped file format.
rastering
Special effects applied to an image or part of an image.
filters
The process of the entire screen being redrawn each time items on it change.
refresh rate
The process of converting images into a format that the computer can recogonise and manupulate.
digitising
Measures the number of bits or stored information per pixel or how many tones or colours every pixel in a bitmap can have.
colour resoultion
The process of assigning surface properties, such as colour, texture and finish to an object.
shading
The process of capturing a view of a three-dimensional object or scene and saving it as a two-dimensional image.
rendering
The process of making the image file sizes as small as possible for quick download via the web.
optimising
Clickable graphics that allow you to link to other locations within the same Web site or outside of it.
hypergraphics
The amount of information stored for each image.
image resoultion
Add-on features that enhance the capabilities of programs.
plug-ins
Blending one object into another
morphing
Graphic that contains more than one hotspot
image map
Web graphic file format that is best used for continuous tone images such as photographs
JPEG
A moving graphic image
animation
Feature within Macromedia Flash that enables the animation specialist to develop and control the animation.
timeline
Software programes distributed on an honor system.
shareware
The process of filling in the frames between the keyframes to make the animation appear fluid.
Tweening
The actual number of different images that occur per second.
sampling rate
This occurs when the illusion of motion fails
flicker
Type of animation that follows an object’s transition over a line or vector.
path-based
A special technique that uses frames to create the illusion of one object changing into another.
morphing
Digital animation is based on this approach, where a sequence of slightly different visual images is compressed and then played back to convey a sence of motion.
flipbook
File format that requires the Macromedia Flash Player in order to be viewed.
SWF
Effect that allows you to create a new image by tracing over an existing image.
onion skinning
Process of generating a single file from multiple files.
compiling
File format for an animated GIF that results in small file sizes.
GIF89a
This is another name for morphing.
shape tweening
Special effect that enables you to distort a single image.
warping
The number of binary bits processed for each measurement.
resoultion
The number of peaks that occur in one second.
frequency
Prerecorded digital audio clips of music and sound effects.
clip audio
The international storage standard for compact disc audio.
Redbook
Advanced process that allows the sound to be played as it is downloading and before the entire file is transferred to the user’s computer.
Streaming
Analog sounds that have been converted to numbers.
digital sounds
Sounds that reinforce messages and set the mood.
ambient
Measurement used for frequency.
hertz (Hz)
The distance between the valley and the peak of a waveform.
amplitude
Process of converting an analog sound to a digital sound; also called digitising.
sound sampling
The smallest variation in amplitude that can be deteced by the human ear.
decibel
The recurring pattern of an analog sound file.
waveform
A technique that mathematically reduces the size of a file.
compression
This is a continuous stream of sound waves.
analog sound
The number of waveform samples per second.
sample rate
The number of bits used to describe the colour of a single pixel.
bit depth
This measure of video quality is determined by aspect ratio, frame size and bit depth.
Resoultion
Analog technology that provide a random access feature to video footage.
videodisc
A compression/decompression algorithm used to compress data.
codec
The speed at which the video is recorded.
source frame rate
An affordable, highly rated, non-linear, video editing program.
Adobe Premiere
Hardware that allows you to convert analogue video to digital video.
Video capture cards.
The ratio of width to height in a frame of video
Aspect raito
This means the program is designed to be compatible with numerous software programs, extensions and file formats.
open architecture.
The time it takes for the video to be transferred from the processor and displayed on the monitor.
data transfer rate
Video footage acquired from a thrid party such as a freelance videographer or stock videography company.
stock video footage
The highest quality videotape format found in the consumer market.
Hi-8
The speed at which individual frames display, measured in frames per second (fps).
playback frame rate
Term used to refer to the way in which Adobe Premiere preserves original video clips in case you make a mistake, change your mind or wish to use them in another application.
nondestructive editing
This is the time code that measures video in hours, minutes, seconds and frames.
SMPTE
