home | homework | links | glossary | sitemap | contact
Glossary
absolute URL | browser | content | CSS | <div> | Domain Name | <font> | FTP | homepage | HTML | index.html | Internet | link | meta tag | network neutrality | Tim Berners-Lee | URL |W3C | WWW
absolute URL -
Absolute URLs refer to the entire URL which includes the server and the page. Any links that take you outside of the website you're linking from must link to an absolute URL.
browser -
A browser is a software application that allows you to access sites on the World Wide Web.
content -
Content consists of text, images, hyperlinks, audio and video information that is available on web pages.
CSS -
CSS stands for Cascading Style Sheet. It controls the formatting and presentation of a web page.
<div> -
It is a tag that can contain almost any other tag. It is used to position blocks of content on the page.
Domain Name -
A domain name is a string of letters and numbers for addressing computers and information on the Internet.
<font> -
This tag lets you set the font size and font face of the typography on your website.
FTP -
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol. It's a protocol used for transferring files between computers generally over a network.
homepage -
The homepage is the main or first page of a website.
HTML -
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. It's the main language for constructing web pages. It allows a designer to structure web pages so that a browser can display them.
index.html -
Index.html is the page that will be landed on if someone just enters the URL. That way people don't have to know a specific page name just to access the site.
Internet -
The Internet is a worldwide system consisting of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) for data transmission and exchange.link -
Also known as a hyperlink. It's an item on a webpage that, when clicked on, transfers you directly to another location in a hypertext document or to another webpage.
meta tag -
A meta tag is text in the source code of a web page that includes keywords that provide information to a search engine about the contents of the page for search engine optimization.
network neutrality -
Net Neutrality means that Internet service providers may not discriminate between different kinds of content and applications online. It guarantees a equality for all Web sites and Internet technologies.
Tim Berners-Lee -
Tim Berners-Lee is the inventor of the World Wide Web. He graduated from Oxford in 1976 and in 1980 he became a software engineer and consultant at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. While there he made a program called Enquire that allowed him to keep track of various projects for CERN.
In 1989 he envisioned a global hypertext project that would allow people to work together and share their knowledge through a system of hypertext documents. His WorldWideWeb program was used at CERN in 1990 then made available to the internet in 1991. With feedback from users around the world he made specifications for URLs, HTTP and HTML and refined them.
In 1994 he founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is also a director of the World Wide Web Foundation.
URL -
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It's the unique address of a web page on the Internet and how that web page should be accessed.
W3C -
The W3C is the World Wide Web Consortium. They are the Web standards committee that decide such things as what programming language to use for the Web.
WWW -
WWW stands for World Wide Web. It is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet.