Multimedia Designs | Glossary:

MEDIA refers to the instrument used to deliver information as well as the elements used in the delivery. 

INSTRUMENT used in the context of multimedia designs refers to and includes a website, newspaper, radio, television broadcast, or other distributed media storage devices. (example: CD-rom, flash drive, floppy disc, etc.)

ELEMENTS in the context of multimedia includes graphics, text, audio, streaming video, animation, and interactive content forms.

MULTIMEDIA is the scenario of using multiple elements in a given instrument. (example: Including graphics, text, sound and/or video on a web site would make it a multimedia design.)

INTERACTIVE FORMS are web pages that respond to the user's interaction of either typing text in a text-field, or making a selection from an available web server control. Interactive forms are created using technologies like ASP.NET and Visual Basic .NET and/or C# (C sharp).
WYSIWYG - What you see is what you get

Class Method:
a method is something that an object of a class does.

Parse Method: converts its argument (the string representation of an interger) into an integer value before that value is assigned to an integer.