Web design software

MASTER PAGES/TEMPLATES:

• provide a quick way of creating webpages
• supply the structure for the website and the navigation that is used to move around the site
• act as a framework for the website
• ideal for people who need to develop websites quickly and have no design or website development skills

HYPERLINKS:

• allow you to jump from one part of a website to another or even to a completely different webite
• Hyperlink links - these are text that you can click on to activate the link
• Graphical links - graphical images that you click on to activate the link, cursor changes shape to hand

HOTSPOTS:

• image or piece of text used as a link on a webpage

NAVIGATION BARS:

• buttons that you use to move around the site and perform certain actions
• back - go to previous page
• forward - jump to next page
• refresh or reload - refresh the contents of the page
• home - return to the page that you use as your home page
• stop - stop trying to load site page
• key word search - search a site using one or more key words

FORMS:

• collect data from website users

MARQUEE TOOL

ANIMATION

FLASH TOOLS:

• software that allows you to add interactivity and animations to webpages

RSS FEED:

• web feed fromat that is used to publish frequently updated work such as news, radio, video
• user does not have to visit the website to get the content it is sent automatically to them

COUNTERS:

• how many visitors there have been to that website

HTML (HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE):

• a set of instructions used to create documents on the World Wide Web. you can use it to specify teh structure and layout of a web document
• tags that tell the computer what to do with the text that is entered

Software for audio, DVD and video players

• volume adjustment - increase or decrease the volume
• mute - stops the sound going through the speakers
• play - starts the music, video
• pause - stops whatever it is from playing until you press play again
• forward/fast forward - can move forward to a particular part
• backwards/reverse - useful if you want to go back and listen to or watch something again
• start - starts the player
• stop - stops the player
• end - goes to the end of the music/video
• play list - can build  a list of music tracks so they are played one after another automatically
• subtitles - spoken words are displayed as text on the screen, useful is person watching is deaf or if you want to learn another language
• music downloads - some music players can connect to a website so can select and pay for downloads to be stored on your computer
• streaming - where you do not download the whole music track/CD or DVD, instead the file is sent via the Internet so you are able to watch it as it is being sent

Podcast:

• series of digital files that are released in episodes that are sent to your computer automatically each time one is released
• podcast software is freely available on the Internet