Computer Science 1033A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Times New Roman

• School: Western University
• Department: Computer Science
• Course: Computer Science 1033A/B
• Professor: Laura Reid

Document Summary

Multimedia: is the integration of text, graphics, animation, sound and video in an application for the purpose of communication. It is anything you can see or hear. It is used to inform, educate, sell and run business, entertainment and etc. Multimedia application an application that can be used to present text, sound, video, images and animation. You have 7-15 seconds to make a good first impression. You have four minutes for someone to decide if they want to go beyond the first four minutes (four minutes sell) Things like inaccessible, bad navigation, external links(if someone clicks on an external link they may not return to your site), advertisements and etc. make people want to leave a website. We communicate using our 5 sense: sounds, sight, smell, touch, and taste. It is beneficial to use the world wide web to communicate versus things like. Newspaper, radio, tv, etc because it is fast, cheap, accessible by millions.