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Glossary
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absolute URL -
An absolute URL specifices the exact location of a file/directory on the internet.
browser -
A web browser is a software application for retrieving information contained on the web.
content -
Content is text, image, sound, video or animation presented on a web page.
CSS -
CSS stands for cascading style sheets and is style sheet language used to describe the look and format of a page.
Domain Name -
Domain names are used to identify the IP adress of a website.
FTP -
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol and refers to the procedure of copying a file from one host to another over the internet.
homepage -
The homepage is a website's front page.
HTML -
HTML stands for hypertext mark-up language and is the basic building blocks language for creating websites.
index.html -
The default page in a directory.
Internet -
A global system of interconnected computers sharing data via a broad array of networking technologies.
link -
A link, short for hyper link, is a reference to a document that a user can follow.
meta tag -
Meta tag is an HTML tag containing information about a page.
URL -
A URL (uniform resource locator) is the address of a website on the internet.
W3C -
The W3C refers to the World Wide Web consortium, a web standards committee who decided in 2001 that XHTML would replace HTML.
WWW -
WWW stands for world wide web and proceeds a URL address.
TIM BERNERS-LEE -
Lee was born June 5, 1955 in London, England and attended Oxford from 1973 to 76 where he earned a degree in Physics. In 1980, while working for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN being the French acronym) he proposed a hypertext project, hypertext being the linking of data that would ultimately make the internet possible. He wrote a program prototype called ENQUIRE which would prove to be the predecessor for the modern internet.
The initial intention of ENQUIRE was to better handle file interchanges between CERN’s 10,000 employees. Nearly ten years later Lee joined the hypertext program with the internet and the World Wide Web was born. In 1990 he began work on a system utilizing the structure of ENQUIRE. The first website was brought online August, 6 1991. Three years later Lee founded the W3C, a consortium of various companies who created standards to improve the quality of the web. Lee allowed his idea to be used without royalty and has since championed net neutrality, the idea that ISP and governments should impose no restrictions on content, sites and platforms. He has equated internet freedom to a human rights issue.
Network Neutrality -
Network neutrality is a principle advocating no restrictions by ISPs or governments on content, sites or platforms on the internet.
<div> -
Div is short for division and is used to give structure and context to any block content in a document. You structure your page with a div for the masthead, a div for navagation, a div fo content and a div for the footer.
<font> -
Font contains the attributes of the font for that block of text. It has been replaced in DW by character formatting in CSS, which allows you to change not only the font style but the font size and color.