Ch10 & Typography

I thought that Chapter 10 was really useful. I noticed that there is still so much for me to learn. Every chapter that I read teaches me things I have never even heard of. So far in the class I have a better but general understanding of how to put a website together but I wasnt completely satisfied with my first website and wish I could change things around and learn how to stop my pictures from moving around ever time I open up my web. I've struggled in the past with understanding file format, which the book did a good job at explaining. I have heard of GIF and JPEG before but didnt even know when it would be better to use one over the other. It was interesting to read the section about bitmapped versus object-oriented because I felt that these technical terms were being defined by other technical terms I dont understand. It is good to know these specifics that deal with pictures because I feel that pictures are the most uncooperative and difficult when putting them on the web. I was definitely mixed up about compression. I thought that compression dealt with the actual size and clarity of the picture, and not the file size which actually is what it deals with.
Also, it was kinda fun to learn about bits and bytes. I guess I knew that for them to be standard measurements they need some specific amount that they cover. In turn, I learned that bit is the smallest unit of measurement. 8 bits equal 1 byte which is enough to cover just 1 letter on the screen. Computer screens are always filled with so much text and colors, that it made me realize that a lof of memory is needed. When I was reading about the image map I was a bit confused, but the picture helped a lot. I thought it was something much more confusing. Overall, there were a lot of things I added to my minimal knowledge concerning these terms. Thumbnails for example, werent new to me. I knew what a thumbnail but after reading this Chapter I realized their convenience in being small. You can look at a small version of the picture without having to wait a while for it to load.
The typography reading had more information that I already knew. I like that it lists that typography works verbally as well as visually. Margins provide visual relief and separate elements. Its weird to go from the person reading the web pages and sort of taking their elements for granted, to actually putting the website and their elements together. They talked about how some elements come up differently on some monitors which I think is very annoying. I think that is what happened to my first web page, but being brand new with making web sites, I have no idea how to fix it?!