Wednesday 7 November 2012

File Formats WEB

.HTML

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the main markup language for displaying web pages and other information that be displayed in a web browser. HTML is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of tags in enclosed brackets within web page content. Most tags come in pairs. A web browsers purpose is to read the HTML documents and transform them into visual web pages. The web browsers doesn't display the HTML tags but they interpret the content of the page.

.FLA

Assosiated with Flash.

.CSS

CCS stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is a style sheet language which is used to describe the presentation (look and formatting.) It is written up in a markup language. Its more common application is to style webpages in HTML etc.

.SWF

SWF is an abbreviation for Shockwave Flash. SWF is an Adobe Flash file format. It is used for multimedia, vector graphics and Action Script. It is the dominant format for displaying animated vector graphics on the web.

.PHP

PHP stands for Hypertext Preprocesser. PHP is an open general purpose server side scripting language originally designed to be used for Web development and to produce web pages.

.FTP

FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It is used to transfer files from one host to another.

.HTTP

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is an application used to distribute, collabrorative and hypermedia information systems. It is the base of data communication for the World Wide Web.

MYSQL DATABASE

It is the worlds most used open sourced relational database management system.

File Formats

These are some examples of file formats:

.GIF

GIF stands for The Graphics Interchange Format, is a bitmap image format.


.TIFF

TIFF stands for Tagged Image File Format. It is a file format used for storing images. It is popular within Graphic Artists and the Publishing Industry. It is supported by image manipluation applications.


.PNG

PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. It is a bitmapped image format which allows lossless data compression.


.PDF

PDF stands for Portable Document Format. A PDF is a file format used to represent documents within application software, hardware and operating systems.


.PSD

PSD is Photoshops default file extentsion when saving a document, it stands for Photoshop Document.


.IND

The publication file of an InDesign document.


.XLS


.RAW


.AI


AI stands for Adobe Illustrator Artwork. It is a file format.

.DOC

Doc is the abbreviation of 'document.' It is the filename extension for word processing documents. This is mainly used within Microsoft Word.

.JPG

.JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group

.PPT