Transcript Midterm Review - Mater Academy Charter School

Final Review
WEB DESIGN
FLASH
• What is Flash?
– Flash is a multimedia graphics program
specifically for use on the web
– Flash enables you to create interactive
“movies” on the web for example, an
individual is capable of interacting with the
computer through computer games which are
heavily embedded with Flash components.
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Why Flash ?
It is a well-known fact that every
successful business is a result of
effective advertising and marketing
strategies.
• Flash sites are attractive
• Flash offers robust capabilities such as animation &
user interactivity e.g. zappos.com
• Within a 30 second period Flash can show a whole
company presentation or profile on a website.
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Who’s Flashing?
The results show that between 2000 &
2008, an increase in Flash websites on
the Internet has jumped from 96.4%, to
98.7 %
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DreamWeaver
• DreamWeaver is a web development
application originally created by Macromedia,
and is now developed by Adobe Systems,
which acquired Macromedia in 2005.
• It is definitely possible to get a very decentlooking Web site up quickly and easily using
Dreamweaver without ever learning a bit of
HTML or CSS. Barring knowledge of HTML
and CSS, however, you will be limited in your
ability to make your site very customized or
very easy to maintain.
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Why not DreamWeaver
Dreamweaver supports CSS and HTML
Coding
• HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) has always been
the standard coding language of the web.
• HTML is the most basic platform for designing web sites
• But the biggest upside of HTML is its ability to be
configured to take total advantage of Search Engine
Optimization
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Who’s CSS/HTML-ing?
As of recent a study shows that most small
organizations still prefer to use CSS/
HTML sites ~2.7% world wide!
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Action Scripts
• Basic actions help us to control navigation and user
interaction in a movies. Basic actions are many. The first
and most simple action is Goto statement.
Goto statement: To move from one scene to another or
from one frame to another frame, Goto statement is used.
Example:
On (press)
{
Goto and play (5);
}
(Or) on (press)
{
Goto and stop (1);
}
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loadMovie
Using this command, a movie can be
loaded and unloaded. The load movie is
used to load to movie from different
location or from the same location. The
URL of the movie, the target and the
variables has to be specified.
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LoadMovie cont’d.
• URL - The specific path of the movie to be loaded.
• Level - To identify the different movies that are loaded,
we use a number between movies.
• Target - Instance name of the movie.
• Variables - To send the values of the movie to a server,
use post or get method.
* By specifying the proper values for location, URL
and variables a movie can be loaded properly.
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GetURL
• Using Get URL command, the object can be linked to a
different location.
• Syntax : get URL (url[,window [, variables]]);
• URL - The location to which the link has to be made is
specified in the URL text box.
• Window - an argument which specifies in which window the
document should open.
• _self - specifies current frame in current window.
• _blank - specifies a new window. _parent - specifies the
parent of current frame. _top - specifies the top frame of
current window.
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Lets run the numbers
• Web pages in the world, August 2005: 19.2 billion pages
were indexed by Yahoo as of August 2005.
• Websites in the world, August 2005: 70,392,567 websites
were indexed by Netcraft as of August 2005.
• Web pages per website: 273 (rounding to the nearest
whole number).
• Web pages in the world, February 2007: multiplying our
estimate of the number of web pages per website by
Netcraft's February 2007 count of websites, we arrive at 29.7
billion pages on the World Wide Web as of February 2007
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What every WebD student should know!!!
What is the maximum length of a URL?
– maximum length of a URL in Internet Explorer is
2,083 characters
– After 65,536 characters, the location bar no
longer displays the URL - Firefox (Browser)
– At least 80,000 characters will work. I stopped
testing after 80,000 characters- Safari (Browser)
– length limit of approximately 4,000 charactersApache (Server)
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Who controls the World Wide Web?
No one.
– The TCP/IP protocol on which all Internet
protocols are based is not patented and can
be implemented by anyone. It can also
continue to operate without any one central
system in charge.
– However, The standards that determine the
behavior of web browsers and web servers
are set, often after the fact, by the Internet
Engineering Task Force and the W3C
Consortium (WWW)
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What is the most popular
website?
This information is updated and regulated by
Alexa.com
The Alexa toolbar software transmits
information about the websites you are
looking at to Alexa, allowing them to build
their website rankings.
***As of June 12th, 2007, Alexa ranked
www.yahoo.com as the #1 most popular website
in the world.
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Let’s talk about Careers : )
• What exactly is Computer Science?
Computer Science is the science of using computers to
solve problems.
• What exactly is Information Technology /Systems?
The commercial world uses the term IT in a variety of
contexts, generally, to mean "anything to do with
computers". Many business uses of this term refer
specifically to the combination of databases, information
processing systems and communication systems (email,
web browsing) they have been installing in the 80's and
90's.
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Careers….cont’d
Many people incorrectly believe that a computer
science career is all about programming. While it is
true that most entry-level jobs after a Bachelor's
degree involve programming, most practitioners
eventually graduate to other responsibilities such as
design, coordination, testing, planning and
management.
• Thus, you typically start with a software engineering
job after a Bachelor's and move on (after about 5
years of experience) into higher-level positions.
• With advanced coursework and a Master's degree,
you can work in an area of specialization that uses
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your advanced coursework.
Have A Wonderful Summer
It has truly been an awesome year!!! I
appreciate all your hard work, toil, and tears. I
hope you all enjoyed our time together, if we
managed to butt heads a few time it’s all in
love : ). I wish you all the best in whatever life
brings to you and as I said at the beginning of
the year, I hope to see you on the cover of
Time Magazine for great things…Can’t wait to
see you at the top!! Remember to ‘Aspire to
Inspire’! Congratulations to you all especially
CLASS of 09!!!! Go get ‘um!!!!!!! May God
bless you and keep you until we meet again.
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Love always, Ms. Shade
Quotes
Zig Ziglar: “You don't have to be great to start,
but you have to start to be great.”
Thomas Huxley: “Try to learn something about
everything and everything about something.”
Phillips Brooks: “Do not pray for tasks equal to
your powers; pray for powers equal to your
tasks.”
Sam Ewing: “It's not the hours you put in your
work that count, it's work you put in the hours.”
Baruch Spinoza: “Fear cannot be without some
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hope nor hope without some fear.”
Quoting Ms. Shade
“ Don’t let me catch you texting…..”
“ Whatever……”
“ What’s love got to do with it…….”
“ Yeah right!!!!...................”
“ Don’t walk up on a sista……….”
“ Hercules, hercules, hercules…..”
“ This is not daycare… wake up”
“ You can do better than that…..”
“ Take it up wit Ms. Marty…………..”
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