Applet |
A
small program that can be embedded in an HTML document. |
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Background |
Web
pages may have special patterns or colours "underneath" the text in
the document. |
Browser |
A
software program that reads HTML documents and allows the user to
navigate the World Wide Web. |
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Database |
A collection of information, stored, and organised for
easy searching. |
Digital Images |
A photograph,
logo, picture, etc. stored in a digital format. |
Domain Name |
A
textual alias for an IP address based on the domain name system.
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Domain Name
Registration |
A process by which
a Domain Name is registered and the fee paid to a registration
authority. |
Domain
Names Service (DNS) |
DNS exists on the Internet to let you use a name for a
computer instead of a number. |
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E-mail |
Abbreviation for electronic mail, a system for exchanging messages
through networked computers. |
E-mail Address |
A
mailbox location on the Internet. |
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FAQ |
Acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. A page or section within a Web
site that answers the most common questions on a certain topic.
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Font |
A
set of characters that, together, make up a typeface such as
Helvetica, Times, or Courier. |
Form |
An
interactive Web document. The document can contain fields into which
readers can type information. This information could be used as part
of a survey, to purchase an item, to search a database, and so on. |
File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) |
FTP is a "language"
computers use over TCP/IP networks as
a
method for transferring files to and from remote computers on the
Internet. |
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GIF |
Acronym for Graphics Interchange Format. A file format commonly used
with graphics or photos displayed on Web documents. |
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Hit Counter |
A
script on a Web server that registers a visit to a Web page and may
display the running total number of "hits." |
Hyper
Text Markup Language (HTML)
|
HTML is the mark-up (or programming) language to make
web pages. It allows formatting font size and colour, inserting images
and links and creating forms. |
Hypertext |
Any
text that contains a hyperlink to another document. |
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
|
HyperText Transfer Protocol is the language computers
use over TCP/IP networks or the Internet to request, send and receive
web pages. |
Hyperlink |
A
string of text characters usually distinguished by underlining and/or
highlighting that, when clicked on, takes the user to another section
of the Web page, a new new page or another Web site. |
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Internet |
An
international network of networked computers. |
Internet Explorer |
A
Web browser. |
Internet
Service Provider (ISP)
|
A company that provides
access to the Internet. They typically have a modems at a local phone
number that you can call which have are connected to the Internet. An
ISP can also supply email accounts and server space to keep your own
web pages. |
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Java |
A
computer language developed by Sun Microsystems that enables the
creation of "applets" or "live objects" that execute in response to
mouse clicks to produce sound, video and other effects within a Web
browser. |
JPEG |
Acronym for Joint Photographic Experts Group. A graphic image
compression format. |
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Keywords |
Word(s) used in a search query. |
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Logo |
An image that is
used by a company, business etc. |
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MySQL |
MySQL is a very fast,
robust relational database management system. The database enables the
efficient storing, searching, sorting and retrieval of data. |
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Netscape Navigator |
A
Web browser. |
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PDF |
Acronym and suffix for Portable Document Format. The file format
created by Adobe Acrobat. |
PHP |
PHP (PHP Hypertext
Preprocessor) is a server side scripting language designed especially
for the web. |
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Scanning |
The process of
converting a photograph into a digital image file for inclusion on a
web page. |
Search
Engine
|
A web site with millions
of web pages indexed by the words in them, so users can search for a
web site containing their chosen words. It returns a list of pages
containing the search words. |
Search Engine
Registration |
Most search engines allow
you to register with them so you can have your pages added to their
list. |
Server |
A
computer running a special program that can send Web pages to browsers
in response to requests. |
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TCP/IP
(Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol)
|
TCP/IP is the language
spoken on the Internet. It defines how computers address messages to
one another and also how to split big messages up into multiple chunks
when they are large. |
Traffic Statistics |
A service provided
by ISPs detailing information about the number of people who access
pages within a web site. |
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Universal Resource Locator (URL)
|
A URL is an address for an item on the Internet.
Every page on the Web can be referenced by a unique
address, containing the Internet host address of the Web server, and,
sometimes, the path through the directory structure on the Web
server's hard drive to a particular file and the name of that file. |
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Web Author |
A
person who creates Web pages and Web sites. |
Web Browser |
A web browser is a
program that runs on your computer and displays web pages. Internet
Explorer and Netscape Navigator are two examples of web browsers.
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Web Page |
An
HTML-scripted file which may contain text, images, a background, and
even embedded video and sound files. |
Web
Server
|
A computer connected to the Internet which waits for
HTTP requests for web pages and then returns the specified page.
A Web server can host several Web sites by providing
URLs that define a path to the Web site. |
Web Site |
A
collection of Web pages residing on a Web server. Web sites are
usually synonymous with a URL. |
World Wide Web
(WWW) |
The collection of web
pages on the Internet. |