HomePage-
The main page of a Web site. Typically, the
home page serves as an index or table of contents
to other documents stored at the site.
Hosting-
A Hosting Services Provider (HSP) is an
application service provider dedicated to providing
hosting services.
HTML
-
Short for HyperText Markup Language, the
authoring language used to create documents on the
World Wide Web. HTML defines the structure and
layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags
and attributes.
ISP-
Short for Internet Service Provider, a company
that provides access to the Internet. For a monthly
fee, the service provider gives you a software
package, username, password and access phone
number.
JPEG-
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, and
pronounced jay-peg. JPEG is a lossy compression
technique for color images. Although it can reduce
files sizes to about 5% of their normal size, some
detail is lost in the compression.
Link-
In hypertext systems, such as the World Wide
Web, a link is a reference to another document.
Such links are sometimes called hot links because
they take you to other document when you click on
them.
Menu-
You can enter another area on a site by simply
pointing and clicking on a menu item.
MouseOver-
A JavaScript element that triggers a change on
an item (usually a graphic) in a Web page when the
mouse passes over it. The change usually signifies
that the item is a link to related or additional
information. Mouseovers are widely used in
Navigation Bars, pop-up boxes, and/or form
submissions.
Resolution-
Refers to the sharpness and clarity of an
image.
Scrolling-
To view consecutive lines of data on the
display screen. The term scroll means that once the
screen is full, each new line appears at the edge
of the screen and all other lines move over one
position. For example, when you scroll down, each
new line appears at the bottom of the screen and
all the other lines move up one row, so that the
top line disappears.
The term
vertical scrolling refers to the ability to scroll
up or down. Horizontal scrolling means that the
image moves sideways.
In theory,
the display should move smoothly, as if it were a
piece of paper being moved up, down, or sideways.
In practice, however, scrolling is not always so
smooth.
The scrolling
method of viewing documents does not recognize page
boundaries. One advantage to scrolling, therefore,
is that you can look at the end of one page and the
beginning of the next page at the same time.
Splash
Page-
The page of a Web site that the user sees first
before being given the option to continue to the
main content of the site. Splash pages are used to
promote a company, service or product or are used
to inform the user of what kind of software or
browser is necessary in order to view the rest of
the site's pages. Often a splash page will consist
of animated graphics and sounds that entice the
user into exploring the rest of the Web site. Some
splash pages will bring the user to the main Web
site automatically, and some require the user to
click on a link that will load the main
page.
SubPage-
Any of the inside pages of a website. The home
page menu contains links into the sites
subpages.
Table-
Refers to data arranged in rows and columns. A
spreadsheet, for example, is a table.
URL-
Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the
global address of documents and other resources on
the World Wide Web.
Window-
(1) An enclosed, rectangular area on a display
screen. Most modern operating systems and
applications have graphical user interfaces (GUIs)
that let you divide your display into several
windows. Within each window, you can run a
different program or display different data.