Digital Media Components & Products

Thumbnail A small copy of a larger image

• Tiff File Stands for Tagged Image File Format. This is another bitmap file format that is supported for Artwork Upload
• Tone 1. the value or color character of a surface, determined by the quality of light reflected from it. The amount of light reflected can be determined by the medium that has been applied to the surface. 2. Color variety due to slight changes within the same hue
• Typography the study and process of typefaces; how to select, size, arrange, and use them in general. In modern terms. typography includes computer display and output. Traditionally, typography was the use of metal types with raised letterforms that were inked and then pressed onto paper
• TCP/IP A collection of Internet communication protocols between two computers. The TCP protocol is responsible for an error free connection between two computers, while the IP protocol is responsible for the data packets sent over the network
• Text File A text file is a human-readable sequence of characters and the words they form that can be encoded into computer-readable formats such as ASCII.Computer generated text with either 1) no formatting (plain text, text, .TXT) 2) standard formatting (Rich Text, .RTF) or 3) web formatting (html, .HTM).
• USB Port A connection for devices such as printers, scanners, and most digital cameras via cable
• URL Uniform Resource Locator is the complete address of a resource or files on the world wide web. It includes the protocol, the domain and the name of the file
• Upload This refers to the process of sending a file from a local computer to a remote computer via a communications line.
• Vodcast VODcast is a registered trademark of SeaChange International, Inc., coined in 2001 referring to a video on demand (VOD) multicasting technology that requires special hardware and software
• Vector Graphics The creation of digital images through a sequence of commands or mathematical statements that place lines and shapes in a given two-dimensional or three-dimensional space.
• Video Card An interface card installed in the computer to control visual output on a monitor. Also called display adapter
• Virtual memory The use of a portion of the hard disk to swap out data when insufficient RAM exists to hold all such data
• World Wide Web A client-server information system that uses the Internet to access computers containing millions of hypertext documents.
• Web Robots or Spiders -  Internet bots, a.k.a web robots, WWW robots or simply bots, are software applications that run automated tasks over the Internet. Typically, bots perform tasks that are both simple and structurally repetitive, at a much higher rate than would be possible for a human alone. The largest use of bots is in web spidering, in which an automated script fetches, analyses and files information from web servers at many times the speed of a human.
• Wiki A website or similar online resource which allows users to add and edit content collectively
• Web 2  Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web technology and web design that aims to enhance creativity, information sharing, and, most notably, collaboration among users. These concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-based communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, wikis, blogs, and folksonomies. The term became notable after the first O’Reilly Media Web 2.0 conference in 2004. [3] Although the term suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specifications, but to changes in the ways software developers and end-users use the Web. According to Tim O’Reilly:
  

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  Web 2.0 is the business revolution in the computer industry caused by the move to the Internet as platform, and an attempt to understand the rules for success on that new platform.[4]

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  Some technology experts, notably Tim Berners-Lee, have questioned whether one can use the term in a meaningful way, since many of the technology components of “Web 2.0″ have existed since the early days of the Web.

• WiFi WiFi is short for wireless fidelity and is the term used generically when referring of any type of 802.11 network, which is the current technology being used to provide wireless access today
• Web programmer  isresponsible ponsible for designing and developing applications and scripts for the World Wide Web. Web programmers normally work in the programming languages common to the Internet and World Wide Web, including Java, HTML, XML, JavaScript, and Perl, and are chiefly responsible for providing the programming which makes Web pages interactive or allows surfers to interact with back-end applications like databases. Web programmers are instrumental in making electronic commerce on the World Wide Web possible.
• Webmaster is responsible for the implementation and administration of a World Wide Web site. Sometimes called Web administrators, webmasters normally have very broad responsibilities which may include designing an information architecture, designing and developing web pages, web scripting and programming, and overseeing the management of e-commerce capabilities. Webmasters sometimes hold certifications such as Certified Internet Webmaster and may share many of the same skills common to systems administrators.
• Web Artist Web Artsits showcase web-exclusive art in a virtual-museum atmosphere, including counters, buttons, wallpaper, and splash pages.
• WYSIWYG Editors What You See Is What You Get. The capability of a computer screen to represent the printed document accurately. A term introduced with the development of Desktop Publishing
• (WAI) Web Accessibility Initiative The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)’s Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) is an effort to improve the accessibility of the World Wide Web (WWW or Web) for people using a wide range of user agent devices, not just standard web browsers
• Web Safe Palette The web safe palette consists of a palette of 216 colors that most browser/platform combinations will display without dithering
• Windows Media Windows Media is a multimedia framework for media creation and distribution for Microsoft Windows. It consists of a software development kit with several application programming interfaces and a number of prebuilt technologies
• Web Banner A web banner or banner ad is a form of advertising on the World Wide Web. This form of online advertising entails embedding an advertisement into web pages
• XHTML XHTML is the next generation of HTML and is a hybrid between HTML and XML. XML was designed to describe data. HTML was designed to display data. XHTML is much stricter than HTML.
• XML Acronym for Extensible Markup Language. An open standard for exchanging structured documents and data over the Internet that was introduced by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) in November 1996
• Yahoo Originally a search engine, Yahoo has become a site that is a useful portal for anything from online auctions to virtual communities
• Zip Archive Zip files are single files, sometimes called “archives”, that contain one or more compressed files. Zip files make it easy to keep related files together and make transporting, e-mailing, downloading and storing data and software faster and more efficient. The Zip format is the most popular compression format used in the Windows environment, and WinZip is the most popular compression utility