Reflection On Infocomm

Internet And The World Wide Web
Summary:
A modem can be used to connect to the Internet using a standard telephone line. Also, digital subscriber line and cable telephone line could be used for connection. The three ways to access the Internet are using ISP, OSP, and wireless internet service provider. An IP address is a unique string of numbers to identify each device that is connected too the Internet while a domain name is a system to assign addresses to internet web  servers.
Modem
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Learning Points On The 57 Slides Reading Material
  • The ways to access the internet are using ISP, OSP, wireless internet service provider.
  • IP address is the number that uniquely identifies each computer or device connected to the Internet.
  • The World Wide Web(WWW) is a worldwide collection of electronic documents. 
  • Handheld computers and cellular telephones use a microbrowser that displays Web pages that contain mostly text and they must be web-enabled.
  • The 9 basic types of Web sites are portal, news, informational, business/marketing, educational, entertainment, advocacy, blog and personal.
  • A thumbnail is a small version of a larger graphic, used to improve Webpage display.
  • Animation is appearance of motion created by displaying series of still images in sequence.
  • Streaming audio is the process of transferring audio in a continuous and flowing way, enabling someone to listen to music as it downloads to his or her computer.
  • Virtual reality is the use of computers to stimulate real or imagined environment, appearing as a 3D space. 
  • Plug-ins are programs that extend the capability of a browser.





Microbrowser





Entertainment Website








 Virtual Reality







Web 2.0

  • A Web 2.0 site allows users to interact and collaborate with each other in a social media dialogue.
  • Web 2.0 allows viewers to add in their opinions unlike Web 1.0 where only the creator can edit the content.
  • People could add in false information in Web 2.0, which is a bad thing.
  • Web 2.0 is not totally safe.
  • For example, content in Wikipedia may be edited without permission using Web 2.0









 HTML
  • We can use html to create a functional website.
  • < html >...</html> indicates that the content in HTML.
  • <head>...</head> contains web page information.
  • <body>...</body> contains main content and structure
  • Save the file in html format using .html or .htm
  • <img src="..."> to add image(no closing tag)
  • <p>...</p> to make paragraph
  • <h1>...</h1>, <h2>..</h2> etc to <h6>...</h6> to make different size headings.
  • <u>..</u> to underline text.
  • <br> to make line break(no closing tag)
  • <em.>..</em> to make emphasized text/italic
       
 
Example of HTML

Tutorial on HTML




























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