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| Sans serif | Typeface that is used for headings and does not contain fancy curves at the end of letters |
| Scaling | Resizing a graphic while maintaining its correct proportions. |
| Search Engine | A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found. |
| Serif | Typeface containing curls to pull the eye across text as it is being read |
| Shading | The intensity of a color |
| Shareware | Software distributed on the basis of an honor system. |
| Side bar | A related story that appears within a larger article, usually boxed and sometimes shaded. |
| Signature | A block of text that is appended to the end of an e-mail message you send. |
| Serial Line Internet Protocol | A protocol for connection to the Internet via a dial-up connection. |
| Simple Mail Transfer Protocol | A protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. |
| Specifications sheet | Formatting instructions for laying out a document. |
| Tabloid | Paper size larger than legal printout usually has to be done in overlapping pages called tiling. |
| Tag | HTML codes which may be written in upper or lower case, are enclosed in brackets, and sometimes occur in pairs before and after the text they surround. |
| Thumbnails | A tiny sketch of a brochure or flyer used by a designer to arrange layout of text and drawings in a publication |
| TIFF | A super high resolution file format used to store scanned images. It has no compression of files. |
| TrueType font | Scalable fonts (capable of being changed in size and configuration). |
| Typeface | A set of characters with a common style and design |
| Unordered list | Each item in the list is preceded by a bullet and displays as a hanging indent. |
| Upload | To copy a file or information from your computer to another computer or server. |
| URL | A web sites address on the Internet. |
| Vector | A type of graphic composed of computer-defined routines such as lines and arcs. |
| Videodisk | A magnetic disk device that records both video and audio from a television signal. |
| Viruses | Pieces of software designed and written to adversely affect your computer by altering the way it works without your knowledge or permission. |
| Water mark | Faint, lightly shaded image that appears behind other images |
| Waveform Files | A file that stores digitized sound (such as music or spoken words). These files have a .WAV extension. |
| Web browser | Software that displays the graphics and text of a specified site. |
| Web Page | A multimedia file containing HTML codes which can be stored on a web server and viewed by multiple platforms on the WWW. |
| Web server | A special computer that contains web pages that web users can access and view. |
| Web site | A collection of web pages linked to a common home page created for the Internet. |
| Webbed web site | Web pages with no set structure. The World Wide Web itself is based on this structure. |
| Webmaster | The person who maintains a website. |
| White space | An area of empty space on a page used to aid the reader in reading the information |
| Widow | The first line of a paragraph appearing at the bottom of a page or a column by itself |
| World Wide Web | Hypermedia system that lets you browse through related documents on the Internet through the use of hypertext links. |
