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Hothouse Design
Generic features
Manipulating images
Features used in document
production
Features used in presentation
authoring
Hothouse website

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Generic features
Corporate house styles
Verification
Evaluate internet sources

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Corporate house style

What is a corporate house style?

Logo, trade mark, same font style,
Why is it used?
To easily recognise a company
How is it created?
Style is applied to all documents
Where is it seen?
Website, business cards, flyers,
documents,...

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Verification

What is this feature?

Making sure that intended data is entered
Why is it used?
In order to check document accuracy
How is it performed?
Double data entry, visual checking
What data might be verified on a web form?
Password, email, username

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Evaluate internet sources

How do you recognise a secure website?
HTTPS
Which part of a URL would show a site belongs
to a university?
.edu .ac
What sort of organisation has a URL that
ends .gov.au?
Government organisation
Why may information in a wiki be untrue?
Anyone can enter information

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Manipulating images
What is this feature?
Changing properties of an image, change the
image itself
Why is it used?
So we can place it in available area
What image format would be most suitable for a
webpage?
.jpg, .gif, .png
What problems could be caused by manipulating
an image?
Ethical issues, worse quality, pixelation,

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Features used in document

production
Special characters
Superscript and subscript
Auto text

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Special characters

What is this feature?

Inserting characters not available on keybord
Why are they used?
Mathematical formulas, foreign languages,...
How would you add a special character to a
document?
Insert/Symbol
Where would you include a special character?
Mathematical formulas

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Superscript and subscript

What is superscript?
Writing text above the baseline
Give an example of its use.
Square meters, other mathematical
documents
What is subscript?
Writing text below the baseline
Give an example of its use.
Chemical formulas

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Auto text used in word

processing

What is auto text?

Why is it used?
Give an example of its use.
Describe how you would insert auto
text.

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Features used in presentation

authoring
Hyperlinks
Audio and video files

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Hyperlinks
What is a hyperlink?
Is a portion of text that we can use to open
web pages, other documents on the computer,
and change slides inside a presentation
Why is it used?
To save time while changing browsing location
on the computer
How do you recognise a hyperlink?
Mouse cursor changed when moved over the
link, text is underscored and in different colour

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Audio and video files in

presentations
Why are these files used in
presentations?
To make presentation more
interesting to audience, narrate,
Give an example of a file type that
would be used for audio.
.mp3
Why is this file type used?
Good ratio of quality vs. file size