Audio, Video, Images

HTML & CSS - Jon Duckett

• Chapter 16: Images

  • Can control the size of images using the width and height properties in CSS.

  • The backgroung-image property allows you to place an image behind any HTML element

    • The path to the image follos the letters url, and it is put inside parentheses and quotes

  • Sizing can be important for images across different sites

• Chapter 19: Practical Information

  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO)

    • SEO is the practice of trying to get your site to appear nearer the top of search engine results when people look for the topics that your website covers

  • Domain Names & Hosting

    • Domain names

      • Your domain name is your web address. A lot of sites offer domain name registration and also offer web hosting

    • Web hosting

      • Most websites live on web servers. This is so other people can see your website. Web servers are special computers that are always connected to the internet

      • Different types of hosting:

        1. Disk space

        2. Bandwidth

        3. Backups

        4. Email

        5. Server-side languages and databases

• Video and Audio APIs

  • You can embed video and audio into HTML5 using the < video > and < audio > elements

  • You can also format it using CSS and JS to make it an even better experience

Information taken from “HTML & CSS Design and Build Websites” and “Javascript & JQuery Interactive Front-End Web Development” by Jon Duckett and the web article Video and Audio APIs