Read: 11 - Assorted Topics

From the Duckett HTML book:

Chapter 16: Images (pp.406-427)

• By default, images are inline elements(they flow within the surrounding text)
• In order to center an image, it should be turned into a blocklevel element using the display property with a value of block.
• The background-repeat property can have four values:
  1. repeatThe background image is repeated both horizontally and vertically.
  2. repeat-x The image is repeated horizontally only.
  3. repeat-y The image is repeated vertically only.
  4. no-repeat
• The background-attachment property values: (to specify whether a background image should stay in one position or move as the user scrolls up and down the page.)
  1. fixed
  2. scroll
• background-position -> left top, left center , left bottom, center top,and so on. Or Numeric values.

• To reduce the number of images your browser has to load, you can create image sprites.

  Chapter 19: “Practical Information” (476-492)

• Search engine optimization (SEO) -<> is the practice of trying to help your site appear nearer the top of search engine results when people look for the topics that your website covers, using some techniques(On-Page or Off Page).

  On-Page SEO

  In every Webpage there are seven key places where keywords can appear in order to improve its findability:

  1. Page Title. 2. URL / Web Address. 3. Headings. 4. Text.

  2. Link Text. 6. Image Alt Text. 7. Page Descriptions.

     Analytics: Learning about your Visitors

• When people coming to your site, you can start analyzing how they find it, what they do when they get there, and where are they coming from.
• Common Analytics tool -> Google Analytics(free).
• In order to put your site on the web you will need a domain name and Web hosting(Web servers).
• File Transfer Protocol(FTP) -> allows you to transfer files from your local computer to your web server. —

  Article: Video and Audio APIs

• <video> and <audio> -> used in HTML5 to embed video or audio.
• controls attribute-> enables the default set of playback controls.
• The HTML MediaElement API -> provides features to allow you to control video and audio players programmatically.
• you can add CSS styles; like-> visibility, opacity: 0.5, and display.

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Chapter 9: pages 201-206

• Flash is very popular tool for creating (animations, video, and audio to websites).
• To create your own Flash movie, you need to purchase the Flash authoring environment from Adobe.
• a Flash file in the Flash authoring environment extension is .fla.
• In order to use .fla file on a web page it has to be saved in a different format known as SWF. (It has the .swf file extension.)
• HTML <object> and <embed>-> to embed the Flash movie in your page.
• now it is more common to use JavaScript.
• To view Flash, browsers need to use the Flash Player.