Words & Definitions
www: World Wide Web
Blog: Read, write or edit a shared on-line journal. People can submit or post diary entries of prior experineces or of any information they are willing to share such as feelings or information about hobbies etc. These posts are usually in chronological order.
Website: A collection of HyperText Markup Language and subordiante documents on the World Wide Web that are typically acessible through an individual URL internet adress residing from the same server and form a coherent, usually interlinked whole.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator
Modem: A modem (modulator-demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information.
Image: An iconic mental representation.
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format is an image represented by 1-8 bitmap and 256 individual colours.
PDF: Portable Document Format
Embed: Implant or insert severly deeply. Fix
Applications: software, also known as software application, application or app, is computer software designed to help the user to perform a singular or multiple related specific tasks. Typical examples are word processors, spreadsheets, media players and database applications.
Gadget: A device or control mechanism that is useful for performing certain jobs.
Cybersafety: refers to the safe use of the Internet and ICT equipment/devices, including mobile phones.
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
Bitmap Image: In computer graphics, a bitmap or pixmap is a type of memory organization or image file format used to store digital images. The term bitmap comes from the computer programming terminology, meaning just a map of bits, a spatially mapped array of bits. ...
Vector Image: Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygon(s), which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.
Flash: A type of website code which allows for fancy graphics and animations but that is difficult for search engines to read and understand.
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Why, when and who invented the internet?
The Internet was originally developed in 1989 by DARPA - the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency - as a means to share information on defense research between involved universities and defense research facilities.
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1. Informative, Search Engine, Educational, Social, Leisure etc.
2. A website can be used to distribute information for educational purposes, It can be used to communicate with people from around the world, It can be used to provide various images, videos, etc. for people who may necessarily need it. A Search Engine is used to navigate the four corners of the internet. Users are linked to websites that they desire in order for them to receive what they are looking for by typing in a key word or phrase. Websites are also used to advetise various products or showcase certain deals such as airfares.
3. Documents available for personal use or download.
4. An internet map is used for navigational purposes making internet searching a much more simpler process than it normally would be. It provides various links all pointing to an individual page.
5. These enable users to use shortcuts that lead to other websites related to what they are searching.
6. Incase they breach initial security protocol
7. -Strive for consistency
-Enable frequent users to use shortcuts
-Offer informative feedback
-Design dialogue to yield enclosure
-Offer simplr error handling
-Permit easy reversal of actions
-Support internal locus of control
-Reduce short-term memory load
8.http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/01/31/10-principles-of-effective-web-design/
9. To make sure you are not displaying false information, bringing any group or organisation into disrepute etc.
Website: http://office.microsoft.com/en-gb/sharepoint-designer-help/create-a-sharepoint-site-HA010131447.aspx
Related Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpwEUA9IGdY
