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User-Friendly Media that Maximizes your Message
Maximize the use of media on your websitePreview the first lesson free — get full access to all 3 lessons.
Beginner Provider : Anne Ross 3 Lessons · 8m in Arabic, German, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese
Course Description
In these lessons, we will discuss the importance of incorporating media into your website, and how to maximize your message’s output through media use. We’ll go over how to ensure all the media used on your website clearly and effectively communicates a message without saying too little or being too overbearing on users.
You’ll become familiar with how to select media that has meaning and is relevant to your website’s content. You will be able to identify various media formats like images, videos, and animations, and appropriate uses for each. We’ll also cover how to optimize media types on your page, taking file size and type into account. Finally, you’ll learn how to select images or other forms of media that account for alternate display sizes—such as for phones—as well as different browser configurations.
What You'll Learn
- Explain the importance of incorporating media into a website
- Identify relevant images that have meaning and align with your website's content
- Distinguish between media formats such as images, videos, and animations and their appropriate uses
- Optimize media for websites by accounting for file size and type
- Select media that adapts to alternate display sizes, such as phones, and different browser configurations
Key Takeaways
- Incorporating media into a website helps maximize the output of your message.
- Effective media communicates a message clearly without saying too little or being overbearing on users.
- Media should be selected so that it has meaning and is relevant to the website's content.
- Different media formats, including images, videos, and animations, each have appropriate uses.
- Optimizing media involves considering file size and type as well as alternate display sizes and browser configurations.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does this course cover?
The course covers the importance of incorporating media into your website, how to select relevant and meaningful media, how to identify media formats like images, videos, and animations and their appropriate uses, and how to optimize media by accounting for file size, type, alternate display sizes such as phones, and different browser configurations.
What will I be able to do after taking this course?
You will be able to explain the importance of media on a website, identify relevant images, and know how to optimize images for websites.
What lessons are included in this course?
The course includes three lessons: Importance of Media on a Website, Relevant Images, and Image Optimization.
What skills does this course focus on?
It focuses on skills including Image Maps (HTML), Interactive Media, Interactive Web Content, Interactive Web Pages, Multimedia, and Web Graphics.
Does this course address media on mobile devices?
Yes. It covers how to select images or other media that account for alternate display sizes, such as for phones, as well as different browser configurations.
