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Web design has changed a lot since I built my first site
back in 1996. You can make your site interactive, personalize it for the
specific visitor and so much more. Still, the basics haven't changed and
it never hurts to know about the basics. That's what this section is all
about. Want the whole story? Try reading our web
design overview!
Acrobat
Acrobat & PDF Files: Useful When You Need 'Em!
 Though
PDF files are not actually graphic
image files, many frequently group them together because they are
a means of displaying images on the Web or on other computers. PDFs are
a pretty unique animal. These files are created by the Acrobat
program and come with a world of possibilities. Acrobat was developed...read
more
GIF
Images: Web Files and More
GIF
(Graphical Interchange Format) files are graphic images that can be displayed
on any computer. The online-service provider CompuServe first developed
this format for the purpose of transferring graphics via phone lines to
their subscribers. (CompuServe, for those who don't know, is a proprietary
online-service in the same vein as America Online who bought the company
in 1998.) Because GIFs files are...read
more
JPEG
Images: Versatile & Spacesavers
JPEG
(Joint Photographic Experts Group) images, like GIFs,
are graphic
image files that Web browsers like Netscape Navigator and Internet
Explorer can read and display. But, while GIFs are limited to use on-screen
because of their 8-bit,
256-color maximum, index
color mode, JPEGs can be used for a whole lot more. JPEGs are bitmap
images and can be edited/created...read
more
GIF
and JPEG Images on the Web
There
are two basic image
file formats that a designer can use on webpages. They are the GIF
(Graphical Interchange Format) and the JPEG
(Joint Photographic Experts Group) image formats. They each have their
limitations and their advantages so, which is best? It depends mostly
on the specific use. GIF files use the index
color mode which means that the files can have a maximum of 256 colors
in them. The key is that I said a maximum number of colors. Through
image editing software like Photoshop
and Fireworks,
a designer can rework colors so that an image looks the same but uses
fewer colors...read
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MP3
Audio Files: Small Size, Great Quality
To
say that MP3 files have become the latest Web craze would be an understatement.
I recently read that MP3 has now surpassed sex as the most often searched
word on the Internet. That says a lot considering how popular sex is on
the ‘net. So, what is MP3 and what does it mean to me? MP3 files
are sound files that are based on the earlier technology known as MPEG
(Moving Picture Experts Group). MPEG was originally developed by the entertainment
industry...read more
Introduction
to HTML
It
seems like only yesterday that I designed my first website and submitted
it to Yahoo. The site was added to Yahoo's listings that same day and
I even received a personal e-mail confirming it. How times have changed.
The web has become so vast that it can now take months for a Yahoo listing
to appear, if at all. The basics of web pages, however, have not changed
all that much. HTML (Hypertext
Markup Language) coding is still what a web browser reads
to display a web page. Through the use of essential,
link, alignment,
list, table,
rule and image
tags, most anyone can...read
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