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Term |
Definition |
HTML |
Short for HyperText Markup language which is used to create documents on the world wide web. A writer puts infromation into a document to make it displayable on the World Wide Web |
CSS |
Short for cascading style sheets With CSS, you can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These style sheets can then be applied to any web page. |
JavaScript |
JavaScript is a programming or language from Netscape. |
MP3 |
A format for compressing a sound sequence into a very small file |
Blog |
"A blog (short for weblog ) is a personal online journal that is regualarly updated and intended for general reading. |
FTP |
File Transfer Protocol connects two computers over the Internet so that someone using one computer can transfer files and perform file commands on the other computer |
ISP |
Internet Service Provider-provides internet service to a person wanting internet access on their home computer |
GIF |
Graphics Interchange format.A GIF imagecompresses data so that the file size of an image may be reduced without reducing the visual quality, provided the image can be made with only 256 colours |
JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group An standard for compressing still images |
Vector Graphic |
A computer image that is stored and displayed in terms of vectors. Vector graphicsare made up of paths, which are defined by a start and end point, along with other points, curves, and angles along the way. A path can be a line, a square, a triangle, or a curvy shape.rather than points, allowing for easier scaling and storage. |
Homepage |
The opening or main page of a website, intended to welcome visitors and provide information about the site. |
Browser |
A browser is a program that allows you a way to look at information on the World Wide Web |
Download |
To copy or transfer a file from one computer or disk onto another computer or transfer infromation from the web onto your own computer |
Search Engine |
there are several different search engines such asGoogle, AltaVista which help users find web pages on a specific subject. The search engines keep the databases of web sites and use programs to collect all the information, which is then indexed by the search engine. |
Internet |
The internet is a worldwide system of computer networks which allows users at any one computer to access information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). |