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Clip Art and Graphics Glossary

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41. Tiled Backgrounds

A tiled background is a pattern, design or texture that covers the entire Web page. Tiles are small graphics, normally 100 by 100 pixels or 150 by 150 pixels.

42. Transparent Images

An image or a clip art that has a transparent background around it allowing the background of the web page or document to show without having a square or a rectangle area of white (or another color) surrounding the image or clip art.

43. Twitter

Twitter is a social networking website (www.twitter.com) that allows people to communicate what they are doing at any given time and to share that information with other people on the Twitter website. Twitter can also be accessed from a mobile phone so friends can stay in constant touch with each other.

44. Vector Graphics

Vector graphics is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and shapes or polygons, which are all based on mathematical equations, to represent images in computer graphics.

45. Wallpaper

Pictures or designs used on computers to add interest to monitor backgrounds.

46. Web Clip Art

Web clip art consists of images, graphics, animations, backgrounds, bullets, lines, navigation buttons, image maps, arrows, etc. Today the term clip art and web clip art are one and the same.

47. Web Journal

A Web journal is an online diary to record your daily life, your story, or your interests.

48. Web Log

A Web log is an online journal or diary used to record daily life, interests, or stories or other information important to the person monitoring the log.

49. Web Ring

A Web ring is a group of individual web sites linked together for a common cause, purpose, theme or interest.

50. YouTube

A popular video sharing service that allows anyone to post any appropriate video. Visitors are encouraged to post their own comments and/or rate any video on the website. Videos can be easily uploaded and will automatically be converted to the proper format, making this a very popular website. (www.youtube.com)

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