Although like any social media site, the user can be oblivious to the technical aspects that go into the website; the people who design and program Charities Connect can not. It is important that the people in charge of the technical aspect of Charities Connect be familiar with everything discussed in Jeff's lecture on bits and bytes.
If our website ever needs audio, probably for a video promoting a charity event, the audio of the video would be played in MP3 form. MP3 is compressed audio recording takes away all the frequencies that can't be heard by a human ear. MP3 file is the standard form of file that would be used when uploading audio and video with audio.
Our programmers will also need to have an understanding of binary code, the "language" of computers. A binary digit is called a "bit," and 8 of these together makes up a "byte." We would use UNICODE when programming rather ASCII. ASCII is limited, and doesn't offer other languages. In hopes of someday becoming international, UNICODE is an obvious choice, for it provides more than 100,000 characters and can be translated into many different languages.
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