CSS: CSS is used by both authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of document presentation.
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Cascading Style Sheets, style sheets when attached to documents describe how the document is displayed or printed, e.g. a CSS sheet is attached to a HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) document, to influence its layout when it is accessed via a computer Internet browser such as Internet Explorer or Netscape. |
Cascading Style Sheets are used by both web site authors and readers of web pages to define colors, fonts, layout, and other aspects of web site document presentation.
An example of a Cascading Style Sheet is Shown Below:
p {
font-size: 110%;
font-family: garamond, sans-serif;
}
h2 {
color: red;
background: white;
}
.highlight {
color: red;
background: yellow;
font-weight: bold;
} |
HTML Editor: A HTML editor assists the user in writing HTML code for web pages. Although HTML code can be written and edited with any text editor, a special HTML editor is designed to be more convenient. Additionally HTML editors generally provide some assistance for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are two flavors of HTML editors: text and WYSIWYG.
What is a HTML Editor? A HTML editor assists the user in writing HTML code for web pages. Although HTML code can be written and edited with any text editor, a special HTML editor is designed to be more convenient. Additionally HTML editors generally provide some assistance for creating Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). There are two flavors of HTML editors: text and WYSIWYG.
Text Editors: The text editors usually provide syntax highlighting, toolbars and keyboard shortcuts for quick inserting of HTML tags, assistants for some jobs or easy preview in the browser. Assistants are usually provided for more cumbersome tasks like adding the basic page construct or creating tables. Text editors require at least a basic understanding of HTML and CSS for creating Web sites.
WYSIWYG editors: WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors provide an editing interface which looks the same way as the output displayed in the Web browser. A WYSIWYG editor does not require the user to have any HTML knowledge, which makes it a lot easier for the average computer user to create a Web site.
Graphics Editor: A graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular "bitmap" or "raster" formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG and GIF What is a graphics editor? A graphics editor is a computer program that allows users to compose and edit pictures interactively on the computer screen and save them in one of many popular "bitmap" or "raster" formats such as TIFF, JPEG, PNG and GIF.
Two major graphics editors are Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Fireworks. Adobe Photoshop is a bitmap graphics editor published by Adobe Systems.
It is the market leader for commercial bitmap image manipulation. It is usually referred to simply as Photoshop. As with most of other Adobe's applications, Photoshop is available for Mac OS and Microsoft Windows; versions up to Photoshop 7 can also be run under operating systems such as Linux with an emulation program such as CrossOver Office. Fireworks is developed by Macromedia and is bundled as of the Studio MX suite. This program is built to allow web designers the ability to manipulate vector and bitmap graphics. It is often compared to likes of Adobe's Photoshop, even though the functions are very limited and less sophisticated. It is perfect for editing graphics in web site design templates.
Two popular graphics image formats are JPG and GIF.
In computing, JPEG is a commonly used standard method of compressing photographic images. The file format which employs this compression is commonly also called JPEG; platforms with short file extensions may use .JPG or .JPE to identify this format. The name stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group.
JPEG itself specifies only how an image is transformed into a stream of bytes, but not how those bytes are encapsulated in any particular storage medium.
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JPEG/JFIF is the most common format used for storing and transmitting photographs on the World Wide Web.
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GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a bitmap image format that is widely used on the World Wide Web, both for still images and for animations.
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"GIF" is often pronounced giff with a hard g (that is, like "gift" without the final t), but the correct pronunciation as specified by the creators of the file format in the official documentation is jiff. Arguments over the proper pronunciation of GIF have become a popular stereotype of computer geek society.
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GIF was introduced in 1987 by CompuServe in order to provide a color image format for their file downloading areas. Fairly large images could therefore be downloaded in a reasonable amount of time, even with very slow modems.
Macromedia Flash: A graphics animation program by Macromedia. The resulting files, sometimes called "flash files", may be included in a web page to view in a web browser, or they may be played on a standalone player.
Macromedia Flash is a graphics animation program by Macromedia. The resulting files, sometimes called "flash files", may be included in a web page to view in a web browser, or they may be played on a standalone player.
Macromedia Flash can be used to bring static web sites to life by adding interactivity to static web pages. Common uses for Macromedia Flash are website introductions which are called flash intros, animated buttons, animated navigational menus and animated advertisements on web pages.
Macromedia Dreamweaver can create cool web site design templates
Features:
- Tool for creating effective, rich content across desktops and devices
- Accelerate projects while maintaining a high degree of creative control
- Jumpstart projects with templates & components, and take advantage of the online resource library
- Speed workflow by directly importing media, including digital video, PDF and EPS files
- Add interactivity with powerful scripting
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