| A | B |
|---|
| .jpg | image format commonly used for photos |
| .gif | image format which supports animation |
| .html | extension for a web page file |
| target | tag to a specified place within a page |
| e-mail link | mailto:e-mailaddress |
| URL | internet address (Uniform Resource Locator) |
| Heading 1 <H1> | The largest size heading |
| ordered list | numbered list |
| unordered list | bulleted list |
| web browser software | retrieves, interperts and displays web page documents |
| "Beauty of the Web" | Pages are not permanently saved on your computer |
| adding sound to a webpage | <embd src="filename.wav"> |
| adding video to a webpage | <embd src="filename.mov"> |
| index.html | homepage file name |
| Netscape Composer | application in Communicator that lets you create web pages |
| hyperlink | contains information that tells the browser where to find the informationa and how to retrieve it& how to retrieve it |
| hypertext | text that links to another place or file |
| parts of a webpage | head and body |
| title bar | top of Netscape window that has the title of the webpage |
| toolbar | has buttons for commands and formatting |
| Navigator | Netscape application for viewing webpages |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol-sending files to a server |
| http:// | the protocol used to transfer web pages through the internet; hypertext transport protocol |
| domain or host name | www.htmlgoodies.com |
| flamingtext.com | a site for making headings, buttons, etc. |
| animated gif | a moving image in gif format |
| table cell | where a column and row intersect |
| column | vertical |
| row | horizontal |
| directory name | contains the files for a web page |
| save | do this before previewing changes in your web page |
| homepage or default page | the first screen of information you see when you connect to a particular web server |
| tags | mark-up a document to format and control the way it's displayed |
| file name | identifies the resource to be retrieved |
| file types | web documents (text), images, sound, audio, video and executable programs |
| client | a program the requests information from a server (the browser is one) |
| downloading | transfer a file from a remote system to your computer |
| server | a program that provides services to clients |
| hypermedia | information that contains links to other related information; the www is based on this system |
| bookmark | a placemark that you can set to save a particular location on the internet |
| world wide web | a hypermedia-based system that makes it easier to browse for information on the internet; however, it is not the whole internet |
| e-mail | sending and receiving messages in electronic format |
| internet | the largest collection of inter-connected networks in the world |
| chat | the reading and posting messages on an electronic bulletin board |
| shareware | freely distributed software that you may try before you buy; graphic converter |
| cyberspace | the term used to refer to the electronic universe of information available through the internet |
| navigate | to maneuver, move or travel through the various areas of the internet |
| internet service provider | a company that provides you with access to the internet |
| upload | transferring a file from your computer to another computer on the internet |
| e-mail address | consists of two parts separated by @ The left part is the username,the part to the right of the @ is the server that receives and sends that person's messages the part is the address of the server that receives the messa |
