Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard 91634
Conclusion
In certain situations based on my research and investigation I have decided that as a digital
technologies student studying the complex digital concepts of web creation, using html
coding along with CSS
would be the best option for my web based image gallery. HTML
code is often much more compact, therefore easier to read and maintain, when used in
conjunction with CSS,
style sheet technology gives designers good typographic control
and a provides a consistent aesthetic look, and layout design.
CSS permits effects such
as roll overs of images and reduces the need for JavaScript which can sometimes be turned
off on users browsers because of their concerns about security.
Using the CSS technique
also is good because I am being responsible by trying to reduce the bandwidth that would be
used compared to sending a navigation bar that used roll-over images to my end user as
CSS does not use images. It would be immoral to carelessly use up someone’s bandwidth
without them being unaware because it will cost them more money.
Despite plug-ins
being the easier option in terms of creation and is suitable for amateur web creators, they
have less freedom for me to develop the features I want in my site and I don’t want to have to
worry about the legalities of re-using someone else’s plugin code.
Using html coding for an image gallery the legal, ethical and moral considerations are
complied with as I the creator of my web image gallery is personally responsible and , plugins have limited control and is are harder to govern. I am expected to show that all of the
content used on the page meets normal expectations of the privacy and copyright issues. It
may be necessary for me to get permission to use images from the people in the image or if
they are underage their parents. It is not ethical for me to take someone else’s image and
edit it so that the original is less recognisable as the original image is still owned by the
original creator. I would also need to take care that nothing on the page could cause offence
to the usual viewers of the web gallery. My web gallery would need to have privacy policies
and a method for people to report images that do not meet the ethical, legal and moral
considerations for the website.
As a good web creator I will use CSS3 to style the look of
my pages as it is better for the wider community as it has features that enable webpages to
be read semantically by screen readers that the visually impaired people use to access the
internet.
Often when using JavaScript and other code samples that they I have got from existing
websites, I will need to ensure that they I have followed the ethical issues related to
Intellectual Property and Copyright. Some websites that provide free JavaScript, for
example, also have a requirement that any code used must show in the comments the
creator of the original JavaScript.
When creating the design of my media gallery I need to ensure that I have considered the
design principles such as using colours that have good contrast, considering the flow of the
text, the style of font used etc. Adhering to these standards means that I can’t make the
website exactly to the way I would like it but I want my website to be readable and appealing
to as many people as possible.
This method also adheres to digital media standards and conventions due to the individual
control that the creator has have over the content and ensuring the gallery will play on all
necessary browsers. The main issue I will need to overcome with web creation are the pages
being displayed differently in different browsers. Rendering differences do exist in older
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Exemplar for internal assessment resource Digital Technologies for Achievement Standard 91634
browsers but more commonly rendering differences are caused by ambiguity in the coding.
Therefore I will use W3C Validator will be used which helps me by spotting coding errors and
making sure the HTML code is well formed. The use of notepad++ allows me to structure the
code so that it can be easily read and make comments about the code which allows future
people to read, understand and change my code.
If the code was not structured it would
be difficult to follow.
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