Web Design Basics

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• Web Design Basics
• Lesson 7
• Questions for Review

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Answers to True/False Questions

• F 1. Graphics dont always have to be part of
• a web pages message. The message
• can be communicated with just text.
• T 2. Graphics can serve as part of the user
• interface and theme at the same time.

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Answers to True/False Questions

• F 3. Palettes are the sets of colors in which
• pictures can be created. Pixels
• (PICture ELements) are the smallest
• dots on a computer screen.
• F 4. Computer screens use additive colors.
• T 5. Characters look smoother if they are
• anti-aliased.

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Fill in the Blank Answers

• 1. When a graphic is a depiction of something
  real it is a representation.
• 2. A symbol is an abstract graphic that
  represents something.
• 3. Graphics can also serve as part of the
• user interface, that is, the functional
• navigation of the Web page.

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Fill in the Blank Answers

• 4. The trash can is an example of a graphic that
  is a(n) icon or metaphor.
• 5. Small graphics with few colors, to be used as
  icons and such, are best stored in the GIF
  format.
• 6. Large photographic graphics are best saved in
  the JPEG format.

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Answers to Written Questions

• 1. How are inline graphics important to the
  history of the Web?
• Web browsers only displayed text, until 1994
  when Mosaic was introduced. Mosaic displays
  inline graphics, that is, graphics in the same
  window as the text. (Page 123)

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Answers to Written Questions

• 2. What conditions would justify the use of a
• very large graphic on a Web page?
• - When the message the Web page is trying to
• communicate is said best with a picture,
• rather than text.
• - The Web graphic is the message.
• (Pages 124 - 125)

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Answers to Written Questions

• 3. When would you use a GIF to store images?
• - Use a GIF when the images are physically
• small in size and simple in color makeup.
• - If you want to make part of the graphic
• transparent.
• - When working with simple 8 bit / 256 color
• graphics like icons, buttons, and logos.
• (Pages 135)

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Answers to Written Questions

• 4. Why might you wish to use anti-aliasing in
  your graphic?
• - Use anti-aliasing when you want to smooth
• the jagged edges of your graphics.
• (Pages 134)

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Answers to Written Questions

• 5. How are computer colors different from printed
  colors?
• - Computers use additive colors, which the
• more you add the brighter the image
• becomes.
• - Printed colors are subtractive colors. With
• subtractive colors, the more you put on the
• darker the image becomes.
• (Pages 131 - 132)