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| World Wide Web | A vast collection of publically-accessible, linked documents written in Hypertext Markup Language and related languages. |
| Web Pages | Documents formatted to be accessible on the Web. |
| Web Sites | Collection of Web pages that are available to anyone with Web access. |
| Project Plan | A summary of the goals, objectives, and target audience of a placed Web site. |
| Storyboard | In Web site planning, a sketch that outlines the components of each page and their places in the layout, as well as the links between the pages in the Web site. |
| Template | A generic web site layout that includes a color scheme and element positions, but which uses placeholder images and text. |
| User Agents | Pragrams and devices that interpret Web documents. |
| Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) | A widely used reference for implementing Web accessibility maintained by the Weorld Wide Web consortium. |
| Screen Readers | Devices that many people with visual impairments use to access the Web, which read aloud Web page text and descriptions that a user selects. |
| Usability | A Web site's ease of use. |
| Usability Testing | A crucial part of improving a site's usability, in which a developer sits down with potentail or actual users of the site, asks them to accomplish a task, notes how they go about it and whether they are successful, and asks for their feedback. |
| Validation | Putting your code through an automated comparison against Web cooding standards. |
| Local Root folder | The main directory on a computer, USB drive, or shared network drive where you save all of the files for your Web site. |
| Web Server | A computer optimized to store and share Web documents and that has an extremely high-speed Internet connection. |
| File Transfer Protocol (FTP) | A means of communication specifically created for moving files between two networked computers and the most common method of transferring documents to a Web server. |
| FTP Clients | A dedicated program for transferring files via FTP |
| Testing Server | A non-publicized Web server for testing purposes, which may require a password for access. |
