Greta von Zielinski

HTML, Bytes, and the World Wide Web Oh My!

February 9, 2011

“We are all web workers now”– Mark Briggs

This means that it is imperative for us to understand:

• The concept of bytes, or a unit for digital measurement

• The difference between the web, which is a way of accessing information through a network, and the internet, which uses applications like e-mail and instant messaging

• File Transfer Protocol (FTP), process in which computer processes large files that e-mail can’t handle

• HTML, or a collection of tags that tell the computer how to display a Web page

• CSS, or style sheets that add personality and visual appeal to a Web page

• XML, or a system of tags that describe what data is

By beginning to understand the preceding concepts, and letting go of past media forms, journalists of yesterday, today, and tomorrow will be able to adapt and thrive in the web-based media world of Twitter, Facebook, and blogs.

For a better understanding of the concepts discussed in this post, visit:

HTML

XML

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FTP

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