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Skill Level: Novice
Glossary: F
Feathering
Feathering the edge of a graphic image gradually dissipates the
edge, making the edge look blurry.
Findability
A term used in online marketing that describes a web site's
ability to be found easily via the search engines, directories,
and other online resources.
Flash
Vector graphic animation software from Macromedia that allows Flash
graphics to look the same across all browsers, as long as the plug-in
is installed. One of the advantages of Flash animations is their
relatively fast download time.
Font
A font is a complete set of characters in a particular size and
style of type. This includes the letter set, the number set, and
all of the special character and diacritical marks you get by pressing
the shift, option, or command/control keys. For example, Times NewRoman
Bold Italic is one font, and Times NewRoman Bold is another font.
Times NewRoman is a single typeface.
Forms
HTML tags that define and label text-entry boxes, check boxes, radio
buttons, and/or drop-down menus to create simple on-screen forms
for collecting information from the viewer.
Frame
In animation, a frame is a single graphic image in a sequence of
graphic images.
Frames
In HTML, providing the ability to break a web page into multiple,
separately scrollable areas. Because some search engines cannot
follow links in a framed web site, a good web designer will contain
text in a NOFRAMES-tag and provide a link for search engines to
index your site.
Freeware
Software distributed for free on the web.
FTP
Stands for File Transfer Protocol. FTP allows you to copy or send
files (HTML-documents, graphic images, spreadsheets) from one computer
to another via the Internet.
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