Multimedia for the Web notes 1-3

-Chapter 1: Introduction-

• Arpanet: the origin of the internet, started by the military in 1991. (ARMY)
• Browser: started in 1993, first called a mosaic
• Digitized: result of an element being captured into a code a computer can understand
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• Search Engine: (spider-based engine automatically roams the www adding stuff from websites to its database, directory based is selective, that is the person can chose which sites to add, pay-per click gives priority placement to sites offering top bidding.
• Web
• Web browser

-Chapter 2-

Multimedia: a combination of more than one media element (i.e. playing music on a website)

Web based multimedia: interactive experience online with more than one element of the media, can be silent movies (text and pictures) and trailers online.

Benefits of Multimedia

• Improves retention (remebering)
• Activates more than one sense
• Allowing the user to see, hear, and interact with media may allow them to remember around 80% of the material according to the book

• Linear: an experience started from the beginning with an ordered sequence leading to the end
• Non-Linear: experience allowing control over where it begans and ends, user can control some/all elements
• • E-commerce: (category of multimedia) forms for handling data
  • Interactivity: more control over content

Chapter 3

1. E-Commerce: use of the web to serve clients and customers (sell products online) (a virtual catalog of your products. Expands customer base, business can be run 24/7.

Two types of companies do business on the internet:

• Companies that strengthen a traditional business with an online storefront, and companies that use internet only
• Companies that exists only on the internet with no traditional storefront, to do business traditional

2. Web Based Training & Distance Learning- prepares workers/ training over the internet using a browser.

2.Web-based training
3.Research and Reference (mediums such as newsletters and books are offered online)
4. Entertainment and Games (first thought that comes to mind >web based multimedia)