Welcome to this simple online guide about multimedia including commonly asked questioned, a brief history, its various tools/ applications, the types of media that comprise it, and the technologies currently being employed.

The site has been designed for the purpose of complete beginners, who may have never even heard of, or understand, what multimedia is. Although more advance user may still find parts of interest, or areas that they haven’t been involved with, throughout the text.

What is Multimedia?

The full description of multimedia is:

“The seamless digital integration of a range of different mediums, such as text, audio, video, graphics, still images, animation, and computer data, in a way that provides individual users with high levels of control and interaction.”

ie. It is the combination of a range of media (text, graphics, sound. etc) into one, and then displayed on a single screen, like a webpage.

Further Information

If you have any further questions after reading all the information on this website, then please feel free to e-mail me by pressing the button on the left hand side of every page that says “E-mail ME!”, or just send me an e-mail to pm64@kent.ac.uk.

Thanks for reading, and I hope that you find the information included of interest.

Paul James Mannering (Site Administrator)