- Web Site.
- A location on the World Wide Web that contains a collection of
related documents and a common top-level address.
- Index Page. (Home Page.)
- A default page that automatically displays when the top level of
a Web site is accessed.
- URL (Uniform Resource Locator).
- The unique and complete address that specifies precisely the location
of a document or resource on the World Wide Web.
- Path.
- The portion of a URL that specifies the location of a document
on the Internet, including the domain name and site folders. An example
is jqjacobs.net/edu/cis105/
- Resource Name.
- The portion of a URL specifying file name and extension. Examples
are index.html or style.css.
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).
- The rules specifying the format of URLs and the procedures clients
and servers utilize to communicate. Also, http:// is the identifier
at the beginning of a URL.
- Boolean Operators.
- The operators AND, OR, and NOT, often used with keywords to specify
search parameters.
- Search Engine.
- A program to locate information in a database. A service providing
a searchable database of Web documents.
- Wildcard Character.
- A symbol, such as an asterisk, used to represent a string of characters,
and often supported by search engines.
- Proximity Operator.
- A symbol or keyword, such as NEAR, used in searches to retrieve
records only if two specified words occur close to each other.
- E-commerce.
- Short for electronic commerce, it is the business of buying and
selling products online.
- Encryption.
- The process, using a cipher key, of converting information so that
it cannot be understood or changed back into its original form without
the key.
- Secure Mode.
- In a Web browser, the mode of operation in which all communications
are encrypted.
- World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
- An international consortium of experts that specifies standards
for www languages and development.
- Declarative Language.
- A computer language that can be used to identify the components
of a text and codify their presentation. (Synonymous with markup language.)
- HTML (Hypertext Markup Language).
- A standardized, plain text document format used to display Web
pages. Markup refers to the code tags, such as <html> or <table>,
and the method of marking the code (brackets).
- HTML Tag.
- A markup inserted into an HTML document to provide information
about a unit of content. All HTML tags are enclosed in brackets (ie.
<table>). Some tags require closing tags (ie. </table>).
- HTML Elements.
- In HTML, elements are markup declarations to display or format
parts of Web pages. Examples are <p> for paragraph or <b>
for bold.
- Attribute.
- In the context of HTML, additional required or optional information
enabling specification of characteristics of elements and related
values (ie. <table width =”80%">).
- Value.
- In the HTML context, a value specifies information about an attribute,
is often required, and is typically preceded by an equals sign and
enclosed in quotation marks (ie. <font color=“red”>).
- Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML).
- A document type definition (DTD) standard for how to specify a
markup language or tag set.
- Extensible Markup Language (XML).
- A simplified, easy-to-use version of SGML similar to HTML that
allows definition of customized tags.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
- A markup language providing specific presentation information for
single html tags, for all specified tags in a document, or, as a linked
document, for many documents.
- Web Server.
- A computer that uses software to transmit Web pages and associated
files over the Internet.
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