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E Tech Module 4

This document discusses online tools for content development, including platforms, APIs, and web design principles. It describes common online platforms like YouTube and Flickr that allow users to create and share content. It outlines three types of APIs - access, plug-in, and runtime environment - and provides examples like YouTube using plug-in APIs. The document also lists important elements of web design like purpose, navigation, and load time. Finally, it discusses tools for web development, online presentations, and cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Evernote.

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E Tech Module 4

This document discusses online tools for content development, including platforms, APIs, and web design principles. It describes common online platforms like YouTube and Flickr that allow users to create and share content. It outlines three types of APIs - access, plug-in, and runtime environment - and provides examples like YouTube using plug-in APIs. The document also lists important elements of web design like purpose, navigation, and load time. Finally, it discusses tools for web development, online presentations, and cloud storage services like Google Drive, Dropbox, and Evernote.

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UNIT I: Information and Communications Technology Today:

Development and Commonly Used Tools


Module 4: Online Tools for Content Development
Online Platform and Applications

 Platform
- It refers to a program created by developers that can be modified or reprogrammed
by outside users.
- It is a facility for programming or developing an application tailored to the user’s
specifications.
 Online Platforms
- These are online Web sites created to aid users in creating their Web content and
cater to different kinds of information such as texts, images, and videos.
- Another unique feature of online platforms is the ability to program, modify, and
access the application remotely using the Internet.
 Formula Translating System (FORTRAN)
- The first successful commercial programming language compiler, helped humans
give instructions and interact with computers without altering the hardware
component of the computer

Platform Categories

 Application Programming Interface (API)


- It is a set of governing protocol or rules on how software elements should
communicate and interact with one another

3 Types of API

1. Access API – This type of API runs in a remote machine, server, or computer, and
the application is accessed remotely by a guest user application to draw data and
services.
2. Plug-in API – It is used in the user end. Generally, different developers create
different applications that can be integrated or “plugged in” to a core application
and/or the GUI of these applications.
3. Runtime Environment – These API are platforms for developing different
applications, wherein programs or application codes are evaluated in the said
APIs.

Common Web site that use plug-in API

a. Youtube – It is a Web site dedicated to hosting video clips.


b. Flickr – It is a Web site that caters to the hosting of images.
c. Twitter – It is a social networking service that enables users to send and read short
messages with 140 characters.
d. Facebook – It is a social networking Web site that requires the user to register an
account and create a user profile
e. Google Maps – It is used to indicate a location of an establishment described on a
Web site

Web Designs Principles and Elements

Pointers in Making a Web site

1. Purpose
2. Communication
3. Typefaces
4. Colors
5. Images
6. Navigation
7. Layouts
a. Grid
b. F-Pattern
c. Mobile
8. Load Time

Web Design Using Templates and WYSIWYG

 WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get. It is an application
that is used to create a Web site either online or offline.

WYSIWYG applications for both online and offline development


1. Adobe Dreamweaver – This is an offline proprietary Web development tool
offered by Adobe Systems. This tool presents a wide range of tools for the drag-
and-drop option.
2. Amaya – It is an open source Web site development tool used to update
documents directly on a running Web site. It enables continuous browsing and
editing of a Web site.
3. Microsoft Expression Web – This is a propriety Web site development tool created
by Microsoft.
4. IM Creator – This is a Web site that caters to both experienced and inexperienced
users, and to creators of Web sites and Web Pages
5. Wix

Online Presentation Tools

1. Prezi – It is a cloud-based application dedicated to help you create a presentation.


It offers its offline version that can be installed on a desktop computer.
2. SlideShare – This is considered as one of the earliest forms of online presentation
media. It provides a facility for uploading and sharing presentation files.
3. MindMeister – This is an online collaborative tool in which different individuals
can share ideas on a common scratchpad-like workspace.

Cloud Storage

- It is a service wherein files from users are stored online. The files are uploaded by
users and are received by a storage server that hosts the service

Common storage Web sites and services

1. Google Drive – This is a storage application by Google. This application does not
only store files but also accommodates online editing and collaboration.
2. Dropbox – This is a file hosting and storage service developed by Dropbox, Inc. It
a offers a facility to synchronize and create folders for file organizations.
3. Evernote – This is an online not-taking and archiving application service. The
facility offers a Web application similar to that of a word processor

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