A
Absolute URL
The
Internet address of a page or other World Wide Web
resource that includes the protocol and complete
network location of the page or file. The absolute
URL includes a protocol, such as "http," network
location, and optional path and file name. For
example, http://www.acme.com/welcome.html is an
absolute URL.
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Active hyperlink
A
hyperlink that is currently selected in a Web
browser. Some Web browsers indicate the active
hyperlink by changing its color.
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Active page
The
page currently being edited.
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ActiveX control
A
component that can be inserted in a page to
provide functionality not directly available in
HTML, such as animation sequences, credit-card
transactions, or spreadsheet calculations. ActiveX
controls can be implemented in a variety of
programming languages from Microsoft and third
parties.
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Address
A paragraph
style usually used to render addresses on a page
or to supply signatures or other indications of
authorship. Address paragraphs are usually
displayed in italics and are sometimes indented.
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Anonymous FTP
A
file transfer (FTP) service in which any user can
copy files by logging on with the name
"anonymous." See also FTP.
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Applet
See Java
applet.
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ASCII (American Standard
Code for Information Interchange)
The
predominant method for encoding 7-bit characters
on a personal computer. HTML tags and URLs must be
in ASCII.
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Authentication
database
A database on a server that
matches user names to passwords.
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B
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Background
sound
A sound file that you associate with
a page. When the page is displayed in a Web
browser, the sound file repeats the number of
times that you specify.
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BaseURL
An optional
URL that you assign to a page to convert relative
URLs on the page into absolute URLs. A base URL
should end with a document name part, such as
http://sample/sample.htm, or a trailing slash,
such as http://sample/subdir/.
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BMP
A
resolution-dependent file format for images
created by Windows Paint, PaintBrush, and other
applications.
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Bookmark
A named
set of zero or more characters in a paragraph that
can be the target of a hyperlink. In a URL, a
bookmark is preceded by a number sign character.
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Broken hyperlink
A
hyperlink that does not correctly point to a page
or other Internet file. A broken hyperlink
indicates either an incorrect URL or a missing
page or file.
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Browser
See Web
browser.
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Bulleted list
A
paragraph style that creates a single list
element, usually indicated by a bullet character.
Also called an unordered list.
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Bulletin board
An
Internet service that makes multiple discussion
groups available.
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C
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Co-Location
A
hosting service that simply stores and maintains a
customer's server.
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Dedicated
Hosting
A company that provides all the
equipment and assumes all the responsibility for
the technical support and maintenance of Websites.
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Default
hyperlink
In an image map, the hyperlink to
follow when the user clicks outside of any
hotspots on the image. You set the default
hyperlink by editing the Default Hyperlink field
in the Image Properties dialog box.
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Definition
The
style of the second of a pair of paragraphs
composing a definition list entry. The first
paragraph in the pair is the term.
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Definition list
A
list of alternating term and definition
paragraphs. Definition lists are often used to
implement dictionaries in FrontPage webs. See also
term and definition.
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Discussion group
A
Website that supports interactive discussions by
users. Users submit topics by entering text in a
form, and they can search the group using a search
form or access articles using a table of contents.
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Domain name
See
network location.
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Drop-down menu
field
A form field that presents a list of
selections in drop-down menu style. A drop-down
menu form field can be configured to permit the
selection of many fields or a single field.
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Editor
An
interactive program that can create and modify
files of a particular type.
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E-Mail(electronic
mail)
A service for sending messages
electronically, over a computer network.
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Emphasis text
The
HTML character style used for mild emphasis.
Certain browsers display emphasized text as
italic.
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EPS (Encapsulated
PostScript)
An extension of the PostScript
graphics file format developed by Adobe Systems.
EPS lets PostScript graphics files be incorporated
into other documents.
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Ethernet
A commonly
used local area network (LAN) technology.
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External
hyperlink
A hyperlink to any file that is
outside the current web page.
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FAQ (Frequently Asked
Questions)
A common type of document on the
Internet that contains a list of questions and
answers on a common theme. On the World Wide Web,
questions are often hyperlinks to the answers.
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File
A named
collection of information that is stored on a
computer disk. Also, an Internet protocol that
refers to files on the local disk.
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File server
to
them. Also called server.
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File type
The
format of a file, usually indicated by its
filename extension. Editors usually work on a
limited set of file types.
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Finger
An Internet
program that displays information about the users
currently logged on to a computer.
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Firewall
A method
of protecting one network from another network. A
firewall blocks unwanted access to the protected
network while giving the protected network access
to networks outside of the firewall. A company
will typically install a firewall to give users
access to the Internet while protecting their
internal information.
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Folder
In a URL, a
single part of the path to a page. A folder is a
named storage area on the computer containing
files and other folders. In
http://my.web.site/sample/test.htm, sample/ is a
folder.
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Form
A set of data
entry fields on a page that are processed on the
server. The data is sent to the server when the
user submits the form by clicking on a button or,
in some cases, by clicking on an image.
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Form field
A
data-entry field on a page. A user supplies
information in a field either by typing text or by
selecting the field.
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Form handler
A
program on a server that executes when a user
submits a form.
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Formatted text
A
mono-spaced paragraph style in which all white
space (such as tabs and spaces) is displayed by
the browser. In other text styles, the browser may
ignore extra white space.
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Frame
A named
element of a frame set. A frame appears in a Web
browser as a scrollable window in which pages can
be displayed. You assign a page to a frame when
you create a hyperlink to the page.
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Frame set
A page
that defines a set of named scrollable windows in
which other pages can be displayed. Use a frame
set when you want the contents of one part of the
page to remain unchanged while the contents of
other parts of the page change based on hyperlinks
that the user selects.
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FTP (File Transfer
Protocol)
The Internet service that
transfers files from one computer to another.
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Gateway
script
See CGI
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Heading
A paragraph
type that is displayed in a large, bold typeface.
The size of a heading is related to its level:
Heading 1 is the largest, Heading 2, the next
largest, and so on. Use headings to name pages and
parts of pages.
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Hiddenfield
A form
field that is invisible to the user but that
supplies data to the form handler. Each hidden
field is implemented as a name-value pair. When
the form is submitted by the user, its hidden
fields are passed to the form-handler along with
name-value pairs for each visible form field.
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Homepage
The
starting point on a Web server. It is the page
that is retrieved and displayed by default when a
user visits the Web server. The default home-page
name for a server depends on the server's
configuration. On most Web servers, it is
index.html or index.htm. Some servers support
multiple home pages.
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Horizontal line
A
horizontal graphic element on a World Wide Web
page often used to separate sections of the
page.
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Host
See
server.
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Host name
See
network location.
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Hotspot
A
graphically defined area in an image that contains
a hyperlink. An image with hotspots is called an
image map. In browsers, hotspots are invisible.
Users can tell that a hotspot is present by the
changing appearance of the pointer.
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HTIMAGE.EXE
The
CERN image map dispatcher. This program handles
server-side image maps when the image map style is
"CERN."
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HTML (HyperText Markup
Language)
The standard language for
describing the contents and structure of pages on
the World Wide Web.
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HTML attribute
A
name-value pair used within an HTML tag to assign
additional properties to the object being defined.
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HTML character
encoding
A table that associates a numeric
index with each character in a character set. The
table is used when you create a Web page for use
in a specific language.
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HTML tag
A symbol
used in HTML to identify a page element's type,
format, and structure.
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HTTP (HyperText Transport
Protocol)
The Internet protocol that allows
World Wide Web browsers to retrieve information
from servers.
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Hyperlink
A jump
from text or from an image map to a page or other
type of file on the World Wide Web. In World Wide
Web pages, hyperlinks are the primary way to
navigate between pages and among Websites.
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Hypertext
Originally, any textual
information on a computer containing jumps to
other information. The hypertext jumps are called
hyperlinks. In World Wide Web pages, hypertext is
the primary way to navigate between pages and
among Websites. Hypertext on World Wide Web pages
has been expanded to include hyperlinks from text
and hyperlinks from image maps.
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IIS (Internet
Information Server)
Microsoft's
high-performance, secure, and extensible Internet
server based on Windows NT Server. IIS supports
the World Wide Web, FTP, and gopher.
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Image
A graphic in
GIF or JPEG file format that can be inserted in a
World Wide Web page. FrontPage lets you import
images in the following formats and insert them as
GIF or JPEG: GIF, JPEG, BMP (Windows and OS/2),
TIFF, TAG, PCD, RAS, EPS, PCX, and WMF.
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Image alignment
The
specification of how images and text are aligned
with each other on the page.
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Imageform field
A
form field that displays an image in a form. By
clicking the image, the user either submits or
clears the form.
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Image map
An image
containing one or more invisible regions, called
hotspots, which are assigned hyperlinks.
Typically, an image map gives users visual cues
about the information made available by clicking
on each part of the image. For example, a
geographical map could be made into an image map
by assigning hotspots to each region of interest
on the map.
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IMAGEMAP.EXE
The
NCSA image map dispatcher. This program handles
server-side image maps when the image map style is
"NCSA."
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Inline image
An
image that is embedded in a line of text rather
than in its own window.
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Interlaced image
A
GIF image that is displayed full-sized at low
resolution while it is being loaded, and at
increasingly higher resolutions until it is fully
loaded and has a normal appearance.
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Internal
hyperlink
A hyperlink to any file that is
inside the web page.
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Internal web
A
World Wide Website created within an organization
and accessible only to members of that
organization on an intranet.
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Internet
The global
computer network, composed of thousands of Wide
Area Networks (WANs) and Local Area Networks
(LANs), that uses TCPIP to provide world-wide
communications to homes, schools, businesses, and
governments. The World Wide Web runs on the
Internet.
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Internet
address
See network location.
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Internet database
connector
A Microsoft IIS feature that
allows your World Wide Website to access
databases.
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IP (Internet
Protocol)
Internet software that divides
data into packets for transmission over the
Internet. Computers must run IP to communicate
across the Internet. See also TCP.
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IP address (Internet
Protocol address)
The standard way of
identifying a computer that is connected to the
Internet, much the way a telephone number
identifies a telephone on a telephone network. The
IP address is four numbers separated by periods,
and each number is less than 256, for example,
192.200.44.69. Your system administrator or
Internet service provider will assign your machine
an IP address.
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IP address mask (Internet
Protocol address mask)
A range of IP
addresses defined so that only machines with IP
addresses within the range are allowed access to
an Internet service. To mask a portion of the IP
address, replace it with the asterisk wild card
character (*). For example, 192.44.*.* represents
every computer on the Internet with an IP address
beginning with 192.44.
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ISAPI (Internet Server
Application Programming Interface)
A
high-performance Web server application
development interface, developed by Process
Software and Microsoft Corporation, which can be
used in place of CGI.
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Java
A
general-purpose programming language created by
Sun Microsystems.Java can be used to create Java
applets. A Java program is downloaded from the Web
server and interpreted by a program running on the
machine containing the Web browser.
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Java applet
A short
program written in Java that is attached to a
World Wide Web page and executed by the browser
machine.
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JavaScript
A
cross-platform, World Wide Web scripting language
developed by Netscape Communications. JavaScript
code is inserted directly into the HTML page.
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JPEG (Joint Photographic
Expert Group)
A color image format with
excellent compression for most kinds of images.
JPEG is commonly used on the World Wide Web for
24-bit color images.
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LAN (Local Area
Network)
A computer network technology that
is designed to connect computers that are
separated by a short distance. A LAN can be
connected to the Internet and can also be
configured as an intranet.
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Line break
A
special character that forces a new line on the
page without creatinga new paragraph.
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Link
See
hyperlink.
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List
A group of
paragraphs formatted to indicate membership in a
set or in a sequence of steps.
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Mailto
The
Internet protocol that is used to send electronic
mail.
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Marquee
A region on
a page that displays a horizontally scrolling
message.
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Menu list
A list of
short paragraph entries formatted with little
white space between them.
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Meta tag
An HTML
tag that must appear in the portion of the page.
Meta tags supply information about the page but do
not affect its display. A standard meta tag,
"generator," is used to supply the type of editor
that created the HTML page.
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MIME type (Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions type)
A method
used by Web browsers to associate files of a
certain type with helper applications that display
files of that type.
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Multihosting
The
ability of a Web server to support more than one
Internet address and more than one home page on a
single server. Also called multihoming.
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Name-value pair
The
name of a form field and the value of the field at
the time the form is submitted. Each field in a
form can have one or more name-value pairs, and
the form itself can have one or more name-value
pairs.
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Nested list
A list
that is contained within a member of another list.
Nesting is indicated by indentation in most Web
browsers.
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Network location
In
a URL, the unique name that identifies an Internet
server. A network location has two or more parts,
separated by periods, as in my.network.location.
Also called host name and Internet address.
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Numbered list
The
World Wide Web page paragraph style that presents
an ordered list of items.
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OLE (Object Linking and
Embedding)
An object system created by
Microsoft. OLE lets the author invoke different
editor components to create a compound document.
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One-line text box
A
labeled, single-line form field in which users can
type text.
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Page
A single
document in a World Wide Website written using the
HTML language.
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Page title
A text
string identifying a page.
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Paragraph
style
Paragraph style specifies the type of
fontto use in a paragraph, along with the font's
size, and other attributes. Paragraph style also
specifies whether to use bullets and numbering,
and controls indentation and line spacing.
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Password
A text
string that allows a user access to an Internet
service, if the service requires it.
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Path
The portion of
a URL that identifies the folders containing a
file. For example, in the URL
http://my.web.site/hello/world /greetings.htm, the
path is /hello/world/.
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PCT (Personal
Communications Technology)
An enhanced
version of Secure Socket Layer. See also SSL.
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PCX
A file format
that compresses its image data with RLE-type
compression, used by early versions of Windows
PaintBrush.
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Plug-in
One of a
set of software modules that integrate into Web
browsers to offer a range of interactive and
multimedia capabilities.
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Port
One of the
network input/output channels of a computer
running TCP/IP. In the World Wide Web, port
usually refers to the port number a server is
running on. A single computer can have many Web
servers running on it, but only one server can be
running on each port. The default port for World
Wide Web servers is 80.
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Properties
The
settings and values that characterize an item on
the web, such as the title and URL of a web, the
file name and path of a file, or the name and
initial value of a form field.
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Protocol
A method
of accessing a document or service over the
Internet, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or
HyperText TransferProtocol (HTTP). Also called
type.
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Proxy server
An
Internet server that acts as a firewall, mediating
traffic between a protected network andthe
Internet.
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Push button
A form
field that allows the user to submit a form or
reset the form to its initial state.
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Radio Button
A form
field that presents the user with a selection that
can bechosen by clicking on a button. Radio
buttons are presented in a list, one of which is
selected by default. Selecting a new member of the
list deselects the currently selected item.
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Registered User
A
user of a Website with a recorded name and
password.
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Relative URL
The
Internet address of a page or other World Wide Web
resource with respect to the Internet address of
the current page. A relative URL gives the path
from the current location of the page to the
location of the destination page or resource. A
relative URL can optionally include a protocol.
For example, the relative URL doc/sample.htm
refers to the page sample.htm in the directory
doc, below the current directory.
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Root web
To access
the root web, you supply the URL of the server
without specifying a page name.
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Row
In a table, a
horizontal collection of cells.
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RTF (Rich Text
Format)
A method of encoding text
formatting and document structure using the ASCII
character set. Byconvention, RTF files have an RTF
filename extension.
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SMTP
Simple
communicate in order to transmit and receive
E-Mail messages.
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Script
A type of
computer code than can be directly executed by a
program that understands the language in which the
script is written. Scripts do not need to be
compiled into object code to be executed.
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Scrolling text
box
A labeled, multiple-line form field in
which users can type one or more lines of text.
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SSL (Secure Socket
Layer)
A low-level protocol that enables
secure communications between a server and a
browser.
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Server
A computer
that offers services on a network. On the World
Wide Web, the server is the computer that runs the
Web server program that responds to HTTP protocol
requests by providing Web pages. Also called host.
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Server Name
See
network location.
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Server-Side Image
Map
An image map that passes the
coordinates of the cursor to a CGI handler routine
on the server. Server-side image maps require your
server to compute the target URL of the hyperlink
based on the cursor coordinates.
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Server-Side
Include
A feature provided by some Web
servers that automatically inserts text onto pages
when they are given to the browser.
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SGML
An ISO
(International Standards Organization) markup
language for representing documents on computers.
HTML is based on SGML concepts.
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Shared
Hosting
Hosting service that allows you to
effectively manage your site by sharing server
space with other clients allowing for a lower cost
of service.
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Size Handle
The
black rectangle displayed on a selected form field
or hotspot. When you select a size handle, the
cursor becomes a bi-directional arrow. Click and
drag a size handle to reshape the field or
hotspot.
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Special Character
A
character not in the standard 7-bit ASCII
character set, such as the copyright mark (©).
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Strong Text
The
HTML character style used for strong emphasis.
Certain browsers display this style as bold.
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Table
One or more
rows of cells on a page used to organize the
layout of a page or arrange data systematically.
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Tag
See HTML tag.
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Tag Selection
A
method of selecting a group of paragraphs and
other objects on a page. Use tag selection to
select the members of a list, an entire form, or a
WebBot component. To tag select a set of objects,
move the cursor to the left of the objects until
the cursor becomes the tag selection cursor (an
arrow pointing to the upper-right), and then
double-click.
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TCP (Transmission Control
Protocol)
Internet networking software that
controls the transmission of packets of data over
the Internet. Among its tasks, TCP checks for lost
packets, puts the data from multiple packets into
the correct order, and requests that missing or
damaged packets be resent. Computersmust run TCP
to communicate with World Wide Web servers.
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Template
A set of
designed formats for text and images on which web
pages can be based.
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Term
The first of a
pair of paragraphs formatted as a definition list
entry.The second paragraph is the definition.
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Thumbnail
A small
version of an image on a World Wide Web page,
often containing a hyperlink to a full-size
version of the image.
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TIFF (Tagged Image File
Format)
A tag-based image format. TIFF is
designed to promote universal interchanges of
digital images.
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Unordered List
See
bulleted list.
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URL (Uniform Resource
Locator)
A string that supplies the
Internet address of a resource on the World Wide
Web, along with the protocol by which the resource
is accessed. The most common URL type is "http,"
which gives the Internet address of a World Wide
Web page. Some other URL types are "gopher," which
gives the Internet address of a Gopher directory,
and "ftp," which gives the address of an FTP
resource.
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UNIX
An operating
system typically used on proprietary workstations
and computers. Some World Wide Web servers run on
UNIX systems.
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VBScript
A subset
of the Microsoft Visual Basic programming system.
Microsoft Internet Explorer version 3.0, along
with other browsers, can read VBScript programs
embedded in HTML pages. VBScript programs can be
executed on either the browser machine or on the
World Wide Web server.
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Video Clip
A short
video sequence that can be embedded into a World
Wide Web page. Video clips can be inserted into
FrontPage using ActiveX Controls, VBScripts, Java
applets, or plug-ins.
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Virtual
Hosting
Hosting service designed to provide
you with the tools you need to effectively manage
your presence on the Internet.
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Visited Hyperlink
A
hyperlink on a page that has been activated.
Visited hyperlinks are usually displayed in
aunique color by the browser.
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Visual SourceSafe
A
document source-control system developed by
Microsoft.
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