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| Anchor | An anchor is tagged text or a graphic element that acts as a link to a location either within or outside a given document. See also target. |
| Composer | A prgram within the Netscpae Communicator program on which you can compose and edit web pages. |
| ftp | File transfer program or file transfer protocol. This program is used to transfer your files(s) from your local system to the server. |
| http | Hypertext transfer protocol. The rules or conventions followed in order to transfer a doccument (file) from the server to the browser. |
| hyperlink | A link connecting one file on the World Wide Web to another one |
| hypertext | Hypertext is text on a web page that is often a different color and denotes a hyperlink. |
| html | Hypertext markup language. This is basic formatting language in which web pages are written. |
| html tags | The actual code that describes the markup of a language. Tags are enclosed with < (less than) and > (greater than) brackets. There are often pairs of formatting tags. One tells when to start a particular format and the second one tells when to end that format. See tags also. |
| index.htm | This is the file name most often given to the main file that others link off of in a particular directory. |
| index.html | This is common variation of index.htm (see index.htm). It is often used on Unix operating system based web servers. Previously the web software could only handle one of the two names, although upgrades to the software now allow a system administrator to be able to allow for both. |
| Netscape | This is a program which runs on a client system and is actually several programs in one. Communicator browses the web, Messenger is a mail program, and Composer is used to create and edit web pages. |
| path name | The system and directory names that need to be followed in order to locate a particular document (file) |
| properties | The attribute features of a web page. |
| standalone tag |
It is a single element tag that can stand by itself. <P> is a standalone tag which signifies the end of a paragraph. |
| tag | This is the name for an element of HTML markup. It is usually enclosed in brackets <>. Tags often have a beginning tag and a corresponding ending tag such as <em> and </em> which would be the emphasis tag. |
| target | A specific anchor tag that provides for intra-document linking. It takes you to target within a document. |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is the standard way of expressing a location or address on the World Wide Web. URLs describe how to get a file on the Internet. Two major types of URLs that you will encounter when creating a web page are absolute and relative. An absolute URL can reference a resource anywhere on the Internet. A relative URL uses the current URL to determine the access method, server, and directory path. |
| WWW | World Wide Web. It is also referred to as W3. This is the complete collection of web servers on the Internet. |
| WYSIWIG | What You See Is What You Get. This is a term that lets you know that an editor/word processing type tool attempts to let you see on screen what the finished product will look like. |