DMD Web Design - Web Terms

WEB TERMS -
The following is a list of web terms used when building
and designing a website.

Website:
A series of webpages put together using links and other
web functions.

Add-on:
A function added into a page that has a special code to
preform a job.

Hyperlink or Link:
A part of a text or an image that links one page to another
or preforms a special function.

Web Server:
A space where webpages are stored.

Web Host:
The company that a webserver is purchased from.

Java:
A company that specializes in web functionality.

Blog:
A blog (short for "web log") is a type of web page that
serves as a publicly accessible personal journal (or log) for
an individual.

Browsers:
Browsers are software programs that enable you to view
WWW documents. They "translate" HTML-encoded files
into the text, images, sounds, and other features you see.

FTP:
File Transfer Protocol. Ability to transfer rapidly entire files
from one computer to another, intact for viewing or other
purposes.

Link:
The URL imbedded in another document, so that if you
click on the highlighted text or button referring to the link,
you retrieve the outside URL. If you search the field "link:",
you retrieve on text in these imbedded URLs which you do
not see in the documents.

URL:
Uniform Resource Locator. The unique address of any
Web document. May be keyed in a browser's OPEN or
LOCATION / GO TO box to retrieve a document.

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