| A | B |
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| network | computers can be linked together in this structure |
| local area network | an example is a school computer lab |
| wide area network | an example is a network that covers a wide area even over several buildings |
| Internet | a network of networks |
| hypertext documents | electronic files thta contain elements that you can select by clicking a mouse |
| links | activating these takes you to another site |
| world wide web | sharing and retriving information on the Internet became known as this |
| web pages | documents on the web that are not limited to text |
| web server | a web page is stored on this and it makes the page available to users of the web |
| web browser | a software program thta retrives the page and displays it |
| HTML | hypertext markup language, web pages are written in this |
| syntax | a set of rules for HTML |
| world wide web consortium | authors who developed the standards or rules of html |
| XML | is used for developing document content; designers can create their own tags and attributes for their documents |
| XHTML | is strickter version of HTML |
| HTML converter | takes text in one format and converts it to HTML |
| HTML editor | helps you creat an HTML file by inserting HTML codes for you as you work |
| ordered list | is used to display information in a numeric order |
| unordered list | items are not listed in a particular order |
| definition list | list of terms followed by a definition line that is indented slightly to the right |
| character tag | a tag that you apply to an individual character |
| logical character tags | an example is <var> |
| physical character tags | an example is <i> or <u> or <b> |
| inline image | is displayed directly on the webpage and is displayed when the page is accessed by a user |
| external image | not displayed with the web page, instead the browser must have a file viewer |
