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Acrobat
Acrobat is part of a set of applications developed by Adobe to create
and view PDF files. Acrobat is
used to create the PDF files, and the freeware
Acrobat Reader is used to read the PDF files.
Aliasing
In graphic design, aliasing occurs when a computer monitor, printer,
or graphics file does not have a high enough resolution to represent
a graphic image or text. An aliased image is often said to have the
"jaggies."
Alignment
The positioning of a body of text. Text can be positioned to the left,
right, or "center" of a page. For the best, consistent alignment, web
site designers use tables and Cascading
Style Sheets.
ALT-attribute
Part of the image source tag in HTML. A good web designer will always
include text in all of your image sources for two reasons: (1) if any
of your visitors choose not to view graphic images on your web pages,
the alternative text will be shown; and (2) if your visitors use Internet
Explorer as their browser
and they leave the mouse over any graphic image, they will view the
text in your ALT-attribute.
Animated GIF
A GIF graphic file, which consists
of two or more images shown in a timed sequence to give the effect of
motion.
Animation
Animation is the creating a timed sequence or series of graphic images
or frames together to give
the appearance of continuous movement.
Anti-Aliasing
Smoothing or blending the transition of pixels in an image. Anti-aliasing
the edges on a graphic image makes the edges appear smooth, not jagged.
ASP (Active Server Page)
A dynamically generated web page, generally using ActiveX scripting.
When a browser or a search engine spider requests an ASP page from a
server, the server generates the web page with HTML code and gives it
to the browser or spider.
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