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Images and graphics are used to add style to a web page. Using a image can sometimes highlight the text in web page, which makes the web page easier to understand. A image can enhance a web page and make it more pleasing to the eye.

Multimedia adds sound and video to a web page. Having sound and video in a web page helps with web page comprehension. With todays internet having larger bandwidth capacities, video and sound is easily converted onto the page.

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File Size

File size are measured in kilobytes. They determine the length of time it takes a Web site visitor to see a picture.

Download Times

The download time is how long a Web page takes to load into a browser.

File Formats

A file format is the way a page or image is formatted when it is saved. A image can be saved as a JPEG, GIF, or PNG. A word document can be saved in many ways, such as: Rich Text, Plain Text or a word document.

Animated GIF

An animated GIF is an image that moves or is animated on a Web page.

"Alternative Text"

Alternative Text is an atribute of the img tag. It describes an image outloud so that a Web page visitor can use a screen reader to find out what the image is.

Pixels

A pixel is a unit of measure for anything displayeng on a screen.

Image Maps

An image map is a list of coordinates relating to a specific image, created in order to hyperlink areas of the image to other elements in a Web page.

Page modified on October 27, 2009
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Elizabeth Sippel