Lecture Summaries class 14

Prepared by: Anthony Larrain

These notes serve as an outline to the lecture, they are not intended to be complete. Attend class to get more details.

Discuss Design Checklist

<h1 style="color:magenta"> This heading will be magenta</h1>

Very specific, the style applies for this one time.
Avoid over using inline styles.
This example uses an inline style to indicate the current page the user is visiting.

Images,audio(later) and video can add allot of value to a web site.
These multimedia aids can also be a major distraction.
In lab we saw the embed tag can be used to place video in your web document.
You should never have audio and video play automatically, allow the user the option to start them.
Example

Streaming - video begins to play almost immediately after the request is made. User does not have to download the complete file before the video will play.

Non-streaming - the entire file must be downloaded to your system before the video plays.

AVI. Audio Video Interleave. Created by Microsoft.
MPG or MPEG Moving Picture Experts Group. Created by an independent committee of audio and video experts that created the MPG file format.
MOV or QT Quicktime Movies. Quicktime is the video format devised by Apple.
SWF Macromedia: Flash
RA or RV or RAM
WMF Windows Media Format, Microsoft's latest streaming video format.

When a browser detects a file that it cannot handle, like an audio or video file, it calls a "plug-in" application. That application deals with translating the file for the browser.

A plethora of programs, here are a few

Adobe Premiere
Pinnacle
Ulead Video Studio(A walk Through LPC was made with Ulead)
Final Cut (MAC)
Imovie (MAC)
Windows Movie Maker, Free with Windows XP. We will work a little with this in Lab.

A ZIP file is a "compressed" file format.
One or more files can be compressed in size and then stored in a single ZIP file.
To Access the files you need to extract the original files from the ZIP file using a ZIP file program.
ZIP format provides advantages:
- Several files can be downloaded as one file.
- The files stored in a ZIP file are compressed, making the ZIP file smaller than the size of the uncompressed files, resulting in a faster download.
Zip file Programs

When you first start FrontPage this is what you should see.

When you start FrontPage you are presented with a new blank page in the document window.
Save this blank page as first.html. If you do not specify the file extension FrontPage will use .html
Either .htm or html are recognized as HTML pages by browsers.

Start typing text into the document window.
The text will flow from left to right. When it reached the right margin it wrap automatically, continuing on the line below.
To start a new paragraph, press Enter.
To insert a line break, hold the Shift key down when you press enter. OR Select Insert -> Break -> Normal line break from the menu items.

Page View Buttons

Design mode - Use this mode to type in your web page
Split - Allows you to see the HTML code as your typing
Code - The mode where you add HTML tags and / or CSS styles
Preview - View your web page as you are developing it. Remember to check in IE and Netscape to