Multimedia Tools

Multimedia is an excellent tool to utilize when adding content to a website or blog for a company or organization of any capacity.  Having a website without it would be similar to "a cupcake without icing: functional but lacking" (Sniderman, 2010).  In today's society, using multimedia on any type of web-page has become the norm (Sniderman, 2010).

Multimedia enhances our messaging by adding visual interest to the information conveyed to make it more compelling, informative, and memorable.  Multimedia refers to a combination of photo galleries, slideshows, video, audio, animation, and any other form of content with interactive features (Rutgers, 2014).  With these elements in-tact, any website can provide a user with a more exciting and dynamic web experience (Rutgers, 2014).  The key multimedia technique to use, as with a number of things in life, is moderation (Rutgers, 2014).  Creating a website with a lot of bells and whistles is tolerable, but the sites that exercise the most restraint with multimedia technologies are usually the ones that are most effective (Rutgers, 2014).


Rutgers.  (2014).  Using photos & multimedia on the web.  University Communications and Marketing.
          Retrieved from
          http://ucm.rutgers.edu/web-ecommunications/using-photos-multimedia-web


Sniderman, Z.  (2010).  How to: Add multimedia to your blog.  Mashable.  Retrieved from
          http://mashable.com/2010/07/28/add-multimedia-to-blog/