Bite size review Search Engines Search engines use many things to determine what web pages are most relevant to a particular search. This includes the website's content, title, informative tags, and the semantic markups of structural objects like headings, paragraphs, and the like. When everything in the website is properly labeled and categorized, search engines …
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Image file types
Choosing the correct file format for a graphic is important because the formats provide different ways of displaying particular images. The most common file formats are JPG, GIF, GIF89, and PNG. JPG format is used for images like photographs that have a large area of smooth color transitions because it is able to support …
508 Accessibility Standards
There are official government web standards that are in Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act that require web sites to be sensitive to the visually and audibly impaired. This helps to make the internet accessible by everyone. Following are a few of the requirements: Include alternative text for non-text elements like images, embedded media, and …
Hard Drive Cleanup
Wait a minute... my hard drive says it only has 9 GB available, but I know I should have more than that! What should I do? How do I get the space back? Help! Your computer is a labyrinth of files. Some of them you saved, some of them were created by the computer and …
Format Types
I have a 12 GB flash drive but I got an error message saying that my 4.7 GB file won't fit! This makes no sense. What should I do? The answer is really a question: "How is your flash drive formatted?" Your computer’s hard drive has a specific way that it organizes, saves, and …
Media Basics 