Test Flashcards
(135 cards)
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- Most Web sites use this navigation approach, in which there is no established or predefined order for viewing the contents of a Web site.
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a. Nonlinear
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- This feature gives the user control over the content
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a. Interactivity
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- Search Engines that give priority placement to those offering top bidding for keywords
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a. Pay-per-click
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- This browser was the first cross-platform, graphical-user interface web browser that fully exploited the webs hypermedia capability.
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a. Mosaic
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- The Internet was a result of this project.
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a. ARPNET
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- This person evaluates the design of the site and the intuitiveness of the user interface.
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a. Tester
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- Term used to describe solutions for companies, small or large, that wish to sell products or services through the internet.
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a. E-commerce
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- This person generally has a psychology background and is responsible for designing the onscreen elements with which the user will interact.
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a. Interface Designer
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- This term describes working with more than one type of digitized media element.
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a. Multimedia
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- Search engines that are selective, meaning that humans choose which sites to add to the database.
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a. Directory-based
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- This is a collection of sample work and projects that can be shared with potential customers and employers
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a. Portfolio
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- Search engines that automatically roam the WWW adding the contents of the web sites they visit to their database.
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a. Spider based.
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- This multimedia application allows students to take courses online.
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a. Distance learning
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- This person ensures that data input from users is properly verified and transmitted.
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a. Web developer.
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- This person is responsible for forming a project, moving it into production and overseeing its creation.
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a. Project Manager
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- Tag used to insert an inline image.
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a. Img
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- 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.
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a. Plugins Page
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- Process by which files are transferred to the Web server.
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a. FTP
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- Prior to plug-ins and players, these programs were launched to play non-native HTML content.
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a. Helper Application
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- Programs that let you build great Web sites while maintaining pure XHTML code.
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a. Web page editors
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- The combination of a tag, an attribute and a value
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a. Element
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- Official standards committee for the Web
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a. W3C
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- These are used to modify tags.
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a. Attributes
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- Name most often recognised by Web server software as the home page or first page of a Web site.
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a. Index.htm
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10. The most recent version of HTML
a. XHTML
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11. This provides the information the browser needs to display the Web page correctly.
a. Source code
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12. Program that allows users to play media content within the browser window.
a. Player
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13. Program that translates existing documents into XHTML
a. Conversion Tool
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14. These languages specify the structure, content or formatting of a Web page document.
a. Markup
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15. A beginning and ending tag with something in the middle.
a. Container
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1. Pointer to a numeric Web address
a. Domain Name
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2. This provides a summary of the design strategy.
a. Creative Brief
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3. This category of Web sites provides information and offers some form of interactivity such as e-mail, searches, questionnaires and order processing.
a. Dynamic
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4. 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
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5. A network set up to be used by employees within the same organisation.
a. Intranet
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6. The name of the Web site category that includes little or no interactivity
a. Static
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7. This will help you define your target audience
a. User profile
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8. Organisation charged by the U.S. Department of Commerce to control authorised domain registries
a. ICANN
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9. These are diagrams of the layout of each page of the Web site.
a. Storyboard.
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10. This is the navigational structure that divides a screen into multiple Web pages.
a. Frames
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11. This type of organisational structure organises data using a top-down approach.
a. Hiearchicial
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12. The blueprint around which a consistent functional Web site is developed.
a. Web architecture
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13. A text-only skeletal structure of every click through possibility of your Web site.
a. Wireframe
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14. Web sites that use an internal search engine have this type of organisational structure
a. Database driven
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15. This is the navigational structure that prompts users for data upon entry to the Web site.
a. Directed
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The means through which the user will navigate and interact with the Web site.
User interface
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A miniature display of an image that is linkers to a larger version of the same image.
Thumbnail Image
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Formatting specification that has made type design, layout and consistency easier to implement.
Cascading Style Sheet
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Item that should be included on each Web page as assurance that the content being accessed is relevant and timely.
Last modified data
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Process of arranging elements as horizontal or vertical mirrored images on both side of a center line.
symmetrical balance.
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A technique in which a hyperlink appears as the cursor moves over a hot spot, such as in image or text.
mouseover
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Lists of questions and answers that can save both the users and the company or organisation time and money.
FAQs
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Colour scheme designed with all different shades of one colour.
monchromatic
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Information that helps users determine where they are within the hierarchy of information on a Web site.
Contextual cue
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A colour scheme and unified design elements for bullets, fonts, images, navigation bars and other media elements.
theme
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Images that have been fine-tuned to download more rapidly.
optimized graphics
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Colour in its purest form
hue
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A Precise layout indicating where various elements will appear on the Web page.
template
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Premise on which the Web is based.
cross-linking
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A figurative representation that relates the content of a Web site to an established mental model.
metaphor
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Fonts that are generally considered more contemporary and modern.
sans-serif
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Fonts in which each character takes up the exact same amount of horizontal space.
monospaced
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This CSS length unit makes no assumptions about screen resolution and window size.
realtive
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This is another name for an embedded style
Internal
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File format that required a reader in order to be displayed.
PDF
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Style that should be avoided because it pixelates on the computer screen.
italics
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The amount of space between lines of text.
leading
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Set of type specifications that can be applied to a block of text, a single Web page or an entire Web site.
CSS
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The art of arranging letterforms in space in any medium.
typography
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A set of characters that all follow the same rules within the set.
typeface
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Style that should be reserved for hyperlinks
underline
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A set of characters within a typeface that has specific characteristics associated with it.
font
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The amount of space between characters
kerning
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Fonts that have feet or short lines at the ends of the strokes of each letter.
serif
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Fonts that come pre-installed with the operating system on the user's computer
default
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Web graphic file format that supports variable transparency and gamma correction.
PNG
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The process of converting a vector image to pixels or a bitmapped file format.
rastering
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Special effects applied to an image or part of an image.
filters
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The process of the entire screen being redrawn each time items on it change.
refresh rate
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The process of converting images into a format that the computer can recogonise and manupulate.
digitising
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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
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The process of assigning surface properties, such as colour, texture and finish to an object.
shading
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The process of capturing a view of a three-dimensional object or scene and saving it as a two-dimensional image.
rendering
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The process of making the image file sizes as small as possible for quick download via the web.
optimising
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Clickable graphics that allow you to link to other locations within the same Web site or outside of it.
hypergraphics
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The amount of information stored for each image.
image resoultion
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Add-on features that enhance the capabilities of programs.
plug-ins
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Blending one object into another
morphing
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Graphic that contains more than one hotspot
image map
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Web graphic file format that is best used for continuous tone images such as photographs
JPEG
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A moving graphic image
animation
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Feature within Macromedia Flash that enables the animation specialist to develop and control the animation.
timeline
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Software programes distributed on an honor system.
shareware
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The process of filling in the frames between the keyframes to make the animation appear fluid.
Tweening
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The actual number of different images that occur per second.
sampling rate
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This occurs when the illusion of motion fails
flicker
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Type of animation that follows an object's transition over a line or vector.
path-based
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A special technique that uses frames to create the illusion of one object changing into another.
morphing
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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
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File format that requires the Macromedia Flash Player in order to be viewed.
SWF
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Effect that allows you to create a new image by tracing over an existing image.
onion skinning
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Process of generating a single file from multiple files.
compiling
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File format for an animated GIF that results in small file sizes.
GIF89a
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This is another name for morphing.
shape tweening
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Special effect that enables you to distort a single image.
warping
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The number of binary bits processed for each measurement.
resoultion
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The number of peaks that occur in one second.
frequency
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Prerecorded digital audio clips of music and sound effects.
clip audio
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The international storage standard for compact disc audio.
Redbook
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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
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Analog sounds that have been converted to numbers.
digital sounds
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Sounds that reinforce messages and set the mood.
ambient
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Measurement used for frequency.
hertz (Hz)
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The distance between the valley and the peak of a waveform.
amplitude
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Process of converting an analog sound to a digital sound; also called digitising.
sound sampling
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The smallest variation in amplitude that can be deteced by the human ear.
decibel
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The recurring pattern of an analog sound file.
waveform
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A technique that mathematically reduces the size of a file.
compression
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This is a continuous stream of sound waves.
analog sound
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The number of waveform samples per second.
sample rate
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The number of bits used to describe the colour of a single pixel.
bit depth
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This measure of video quality is determined by aspect ratio, frame size and bit depth.
Resoultion
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Analog technology that provide a random access feature to video footage.
videodisc
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A compression/decompression algorithm used to compress data.
codec
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The speed at which the video is recorded.
source frame rate
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An affordable, highly rated, non-linear, video editing program.
Adobe Premiere
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Hardware that allows you to convert analogue video to digital video.
Video capture cards.
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The ratio of width to height in a frame of video
Aspect raito
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This means the program is designed to be compatible with numerous software programs, extensions and file formats.
open architecture.
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The time it takes for the video to be transferred from the processor and displayed on the monitor.
data transfer rate
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Video footage acquired from a thrid party such as a freelance videographer or stock videography company.
stock video footage
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The highest quality videotape format found in the consumer market.
Hi-8
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The speed at which individual frames display, measured in frames per second (fps).
playback frame rate
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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
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This is the time code that measures video in hours, minutes, seconds and frames.
SMPTE
