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Multimedia Terms: Unit A,B,C, & D

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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
a communication specifically created for moving files between two networked computers
FTP clients
downloadable for free online
local root folder
The main directory on the computer, USB drive, or shared network drive where you will save all of the files for your Web site
project plan
A design document
screen readers
Read aloud Web page text and descriptions that a user selects
storyboard
a sketch that outlines the components of each Web page and their places in the layout, as well as the links between the pages in a Web site.
template
A generic layout that includes a color scheme and element positions, but which uses placeholder images and text.
testing server
A location available on a local network or on the Web that is non-publicized and may even require a password for access.
usability
A Web site's ease of use
usability testing
When a developer sits down with potential or actual users of the site, asks them to accomplish a task, notes how that go about it and whether they are successful, and asks for their feedback.
user agents
programs and devices that interpret Web documents
validation
Process of putting your code through an automated comparison against Web coding standards
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG
A widely used reference for implementing Web accessibility
Web pages
Documents formatted to be accessible on the Web
Web server
A computer optimized to store and share Web documents and that has an extremely high-speed internet connection
Web sites
Published Web pages that are available to anyone with Web access
World Wide Web
People and organizations around the world share information through this
attribute
The text following the name of the tag in the code you typed
body section
visible in the main window of a Web browser and include elements like paragraphs and headings
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
A companion language to semantic
character encoding
The system user agents should employ to translate the electronic information representing the page into human-recognizable symbols, such as letters and numbers
child element
An element nested within another element
closing tag
Placed at the end of the element you are marking
comments
not rendered by user agents and are viewable only by people who examine the HTML code of your Web pages
deprecated
Means these features could still be used, their use was no longer recommended, and alternatives to their use were available
DOCTYPE declaration
lets user agents know that the document contents are written in HTML
element
A specific component of the page, such as a paragraph of a heading
Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
For several years was seen as the successor to HTML
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
another markup language
grandchild element
When the head element is both a child of the html element and the parent of the meta element
hand-coding
Creating your first Web pages by entering HTML directly
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
A standardized format for specifying the structure of a Web page
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)
Where the first two versions of HTML were defined and published
name/value pair
You provide these two when you use an attribute
nesting
When tags are located within the html tag pair
one-sided tags
Used by themselves
opening tag
At the start of the element you are marking
parent element
The enclosing element
preview
Involves opening it in one or more user agents and examining the result
rendering engines
The software that user agents are built around
renders
The way a browser displays
semantic
A intended use to indicate the meanings of elements such as headings and paragraphs in a Web page, but not to tell Web browsers how the elements should appear
sibling elements
Two elements that are both children of the same element
tags
Specify how a user agent should treat each item in the document
Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group (WHATWG)
When a W3C committee voted against this proposal, these companies formed this
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
Founded to take on the responsibility of maintaining the language's standards, which it continues to do today
attribute-value pairs
follow the selector; each pair specifies a CSS property to apply to the selectors and the value to assign to the property
cascading
the process of determining precedence and results in all available styles coalescing into a single virtual style sheet for the user agent's reference in rendering content
class selector
creates a style rule based on values assigned to elements using the HTML class attribute
embedded style sheet
a section of CSS code entered in the head element of an HTML document
external style sheet
a separate file containing style information that multiple Web pages can link to
id selector
a special type of selector that creates CSS code that applies to that element alone
inline style
a style rule inserted into the opening tag of an element using the style attribute
selectors
identify the HTML element or elements to which the style rule applies
style rules
lines or blocks of CSS code that specify the presentation of Web page elements
type selectors
apply associated name/value pairs to every instance of the specified element in the associated Web document
font-face rule
a variation of a style rule that indicated the font name and the location of the necessary files
block-level elements
the larger chunks that structure a Web page, such as headings and paragraphs
character references
specially formatted codes that represent characters in the HTML document character set
font families
collections of single typefaces and their variants
font stack
a list of font families in order of preference, separated by commas
generic font families
groupings of font families according to shared characteristics
hexadecimal system
these values start with a #, followed by six digits, which may include the numbers 0-9 and the letters a-f
hsl system
enables you to create colors by specifying values or percentages for hue, saturation, and light
inline elements
more fine-grained elements that appear within block-level elements
rgb system
provides a set of comma-separated values known as an rgb triplet
rgb triplet
each value ranges from 0-255 or 0-100% which represent the amounts of red, green, and blue in the color
sans-serif font
font without fancy strokes
serif font
small finishing strokes at the ends of lines making up each character
serifs
font with fancy strokes
span element
a generic element, like dive; however, it allows you to isolate a specific section of a larger element
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