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[supatyson]

Hey guys Ive been really inactive last two weeks, I have had so much school work lately, and Ive just got a new computer in my room and havent got the internet on it yet, hopefully soon. Ive also been working a lot due to Stocktake. Anyways Ive had heaps of work in my Multimedia class and would like to know if anyone could help me with some questions Ive been asked. Im a bit stuck on these ones. I have already answered like 50 odd questions as well as making a glossary.

What are the technical concepts that make the Web Possible? Include the internet, protocols, domain names, ISP's, bandwidth, browsers and URL's.

What is a search engine and how does it work and what are the different methods for entering search text strings?

What are the limiting factors in creating web pages for viewing on the www? Include bandwidth, monitor resolution, browser types and versions, operating systesms and security.

What are broadband connections?

What is a font family? Why are they useful in web design?

What is the difference between serif and san-serif fonts? Give examples.

It would be great if you could help out, Im really stuck. Thanks in advance to anyone who helps, and im sorry if this is the wrong area. Also Im missing this place terribly, Im glad I could get back today. I hope I can get the internet in my room soon, so I can be on more often. Things have been so hectic.

[ShadowLink64]

Broadband connects are connections that have fast thoroughput/speed (cable, dsl, etc...). Non-broadband (narrowband) is like dial-up and packet radio internet.

I'll go into detail with the internet dynamics later (how things work). Gotta go

[RandomNameIgnoreIt]

serif fonts have little 'tails' on their ends. sans-serif are plain and don't have the tails. examples? uhhhh I don't know look at some fonts lol

[supatyson]

Thanks for the serif info, im still trying to work out the other questions, if you can help it would be greatly appreciated.

[icecreamman_13]

The answer to all your problems is on wikipedia lol
http://en.wikipedia.org

[redlion]

Some of the limiting factors in making a web page viewed on multiple computers would be frames. The easiest way to make a web page is to use a web editing software program like Dreamweaver, many of which create web pages with frames. Frames take up a fixed amount of space on your screen (be it six inches or nine feet) which makes it hard to view them. Some other limitations would be huge graphical designs that slow down narrowband (and even some broadband) users' computers. When you overload your web page with lots and lots of things like blinking ads, you not only overwhelm the user, but you overwhelm their computer too, which has trouble downloading and displaying all of those blinking things at once.

A search engine works by using 'crawlers', 'spyders' or 'bots' to literally crawl over the internet looking for files. These bots cache (store, basically) snap shots of webpages on the search engine's servers and then follows one of the links in the page to another page, which it caches, stores, and follows etc etc. In this way, almost every page on the internet can be catalogued. Some websites, however, include what are called META tags in their source. These META tags tell all bots not to cache the page they're on, and to not follow any links (or sometimes only one of the two, or even more advanced functions).

Advanced techniques for using a search engine could include puting a full thought in quotation marks, or by including an operator if you're looking for either or.