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Below I have included a list of commonly asked
question that may be of interest to you, with each one being grouped under a topical sub heading. If you have any further questions that you would like to know the answers to then please feel free to e-mail me by pressing the
button on the left hand side of this page, that says “E-mail ME!”, or just send me an e-mail to pm64@kent.ac.uk.
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What is a website? | ||||||||||
| A collection of web pages connected by hyperlinks. | |||||||||||
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What is a webpage? | ||||||||||
| A page of text and graphics which is part of a website. | |||||||||||
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What is a hyperlink? | ||||||||||
| A link from one webpage-to-another/ any resource/ within a document. | |||||||||||
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What is a web browser? | ||||||||||
| An application that interprets HTML and presents the final web page. ie. It is the program used to surf the World Wide Web. Examples of web browsers include Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, and Mozilla. |
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What do I need to know to make a website? | ||||||||||
| You need to know HTML (Hypertext mark-up language), but if you are using an application like Microsft Word/ Microsoft FrontPage/ Macromedia Dreamweaver, then these programs will write the HTML for you. As a result, all you have to know is how to use the application. | |||||||||||
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What programs do I need to make websites? | ||||||||||
All you really need to write a website is notepad. You then just have to type your code in it and finally instead of saving the file as a .txt file you save it as a .htm file. Other more advanced programs include Microsoft Word, Microsoft FrontPage, and Macromedia Dreamweaver, which all include WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) editors that write all the HTML code for you. |
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Can I use pictures I find on the web on my own website? | ||||||||||
| Not without written permission from whoever owned them in the first place. | |||||||||||
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What is a sound file? | ||||||||||
| A file stored on disk that contains sound data. This can either be a digitised analogue sound signal or notes for a MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) instrument. |
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What are the different sound file formats? | ||||||||||
| The 3 most widely used sound files are MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), which stores the musical notes and generates the sound by interpreting these notes, wav, which stores the sound in a format that the computer can understand (hence file sizes are very large), and MP3, which is like wav but with compression (a way of reducing file sizes). | |||||||||||
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What is an image file? | ||||||||||
| A file containing raster image data. ie. A file that stores the data required to draw graphics to a display screen. | |||||||||||
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What are the different image file formats? | ||||||||||
| The 3 main types of image files are bmp, which stores every pixel of the image in a 32-bit colour pallette (16 million colours), jpeg, which is like a bmp file but with compression (a way of reducing file sizes), and gif, which can only store 256 colours. | |||||||||||
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What is an html file? | ||||||||||
| A file that contains HTML (hypertext mark-up language), which can be understood and drawn by a web browser. | |||||||||||
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What hardware do I need to get started in the multimedia industry? | ||||||||||
| You will need at least a 1GHz processor, 256mb of RAM, and a decent 32mb graphics card. However, the rule of thumb is to just get the highest specification computer that you can afford, as all the tools used will push whatever pc you get to its limits. | |||||||||||
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What software do I need to get started in the multimedia industry? | ||||||||||
| See the tools section of this website. Listed here are the tools that you should think about getting if you are serious about a career in the multimedia industry. | |||||||||||
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