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Web Design Vocabulary - Unit 1 Lesson 1

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Hypertextenable you to read and navigate text and visual information in a nonlinear way
World Wide Web It is all the Web pages
Websitea location on the Web that publishes some kind of information
Intraneta secure and private enterprise network that shares data
Interneta global network of interconnected computers and networks. The World Wide Web is a service that uses the Internet's infrastructure
Cross-platformyou can access web information equally well from any computer hardware running any operating system using any display
Native applicationsrefers to the default file format that an application uses to create or save files
Modern web standardsweb standards development attempting to  make a layout work across browsers and to ensure markup will display at all in future versions of Opera
Compatibleit improves a website's reach and cuts down on loss in performance
Capabilitiesthe power or abilities to do something
Proprietaryone that possesses
Platformis the basic hardware (computer) and software (operating system) on which software applications can be run
Web servera computer that listens for a requests from web browsers and responds to their request
Web browserthe application you use to view pages and navigate the World Wide Web
Uniform resource locator (URL)the unique address of a website
URL examplehttp://www.nytimes.com
Dynamicinformation on the Web can be updated or changed at any moment
Publishingfishing over the Internet for personal information
JavaScripta scripting languages
Operating systemsoftware that allows a user to run other applications on a computing device.
Interactivityis the capability to “talk back” to the web server (ex: the act of selecting a link and jumping to another web page to go somewhere else on the Web or using social media)
Social mediainteracting with others other the Web
Programmeran individual that writes/creates computer software or applications by giving the computer specific programming instructions 
Contentany creative element
ForumA message board
Widgeta broad term that can refer to either any GUI (graphical user interface) element or a tiny application that can display


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