It`s also considered good form to provide multiple types of multimedia to download because not all media types are usable on all platforms: Input Figure 11.2 shows the resulting web page. Output Figure 11.2. When linking sound and video, provide multiple formats if possible. [View full size image] Task: Exercise 11.1. Creating a Family History Multimedia Archive file:///G|/1/0672328860/ch11lev1sec2.html (3 von 11) [19.12.2006 13:49:22] One of the common types of pages available on the Web is a media archive. A media archive is a web page that serves no purpose other than to provide quick access to images or other multimedia files for viewing and downloading. It seems like everybody who knows the first thing about publishing on the Web sets up a media archive when they have a child. People oftentimes have family members flung all over the country, and with minimal HTML skills and a digital camera, you can quickly set up an online photo album or multimedia archive that enables everyone to see the new bundle of joy. If you`re one of those people who`s always emailing out photos of the kids to a huge list of people, putting up a media archive might be a smart choice. (And if you want to keep strangers from peeking in, skip ahead to Lesson 19, "Taking Advantage of the Server," where I explain how to protect your web pages with a password.) By using inline images as thumbnails and splitting up sound and video files into small sample clips with larger files, you can create a multimedia archive on the Web that is far easy to use and enables users to download exactly what they want, without wasting time. In this exercise, you`ll create a simple multimedia archive with several GIF and JPEG images, WAV sounds, and a mixture of MPEG and AVI video. Using your favorite image editor, you can create thumbnails of each of your pictures to represent them in the archive. First, start with the framework for the archive and then add a table for the thumbnail images, as follows: Input Figure 11.3 shows how the page looks so far. Output Figure 11.3. The web page with the image archive almost completed. [View full size image] The next step is to create the hyperlinks to each image that point to the larger file. Here`s the HTML code that links to the images: file:///G|/1/0672328860/ch11lev1sec2.html (5 von 11) [19.12.2006 13:49:22] Input ... Nephew opening a present. Mother holding child. House in the snow. ... Figure 11.4 shows the result. Output Figure 11.4. The image now linked to larger images. [View full size image] file:///G|/1/0672328860/ch11lev1sec2.html (6 von 11) [19.12.2006 13:49:22] ... - tailieumienphi.vn