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Acronym
| A series of letter used to
represent a word. |
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ActiveX
| An application technology developed
by Microsoft that allows multiple applications to
share information. An ActiveX control can
improve functionality with web site counters,
calculators, and animation. |
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Animated images
| Pictures that show movement on Web
pages. Animated images consist of GIF images
that have been layered on top of one another to
create the impression of movement. Heavily
used in banner advertising. |
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Applet
| A program or utility that is
executed from within another application and
cannot be executed from the operating system
alone. |
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Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM)
| A technology that uses fiber-optic
wires to transmit images, sound, and data at speed
comparable to television. |
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Attachments
| Files that are attached to and sent
with e-mail messages. |
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Autoresponder
| A program that automatically
registers an e-mail address and message content
and sends the same message to each
responder. Commonly used in subscribing and
unsubscribing to news lists and the distribution
of electronic catalogs. |
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B
Basefont
| A body text size against which
other font sizes are gauged. |
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Bit
| A unit of information that is
either a 1 or 0 (on or off). |
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Block quote
| An indented section of text, used
to offset a particular element of a Web page. |
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Bookmark
| A browser feature that stores the
URL for a Web document in a folder that is
accessed through a menu. |
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Boolean operators
| Selected words used to limit search
results including "and, or, and not, and
near". |
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Browser
| A program that translates HTML code
for Web documents into graphics, text, or
multimedia. Some browsers are not able to
view graphics. |
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Byte
| A unit of information consisting of
8 bits, which is the equivalent of a single
character. |
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C
Cell
| Areas at the intersection of a row
and a column in a table. |
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Cell padding
| The amount of space in the area
between the edges of a cell's data and the cell's
border, similar to margin areas within typed
pages. |
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Cell spacing
| The area between adjacent cells in
a table. |
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Checkbox items
| Form elements that are used so
viewers can easily select or deselect items on a
form. Checkbox items display as a box next
to a checkbox label. |
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Dedicated line
| A telephone line that is reserved
exclusively for one use such as Fax, Modem, or
Telephone. |
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Dial-up account
| An account from a service provider
that accesses the Internet through phone
lines. The modem attached to your computer
dials a host computer to connect to the Internet. |
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Document viewer
| A program that displays
publications, such as books and magazines, without
having the software/application with which they
were created installed on your desktop. |
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Domain
| Network computers and devices that
are grouped and administered as a single unit,
sharing rules and procedures. |
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Domain name
| A name that identifies an IP
Address, as in "eLinkProductions.com".
Domain names are used in URLs to locate specific
Web pages. |
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E
E-mail
Electronic messages that are
transmitted between computers over communication
networks.
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Extension
| Tags that are part of an existing
group of officially accepted tags.
There are Microsoft extensions as well as Netscape
extensions, in which case, some tags work in one
browser, but not the other. |
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FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions)
| A file that contains basic answers
to questions that many visitors to a Web site may
have. It is usually presented in a question
and answer format. |
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File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
| A method that enables computers to
transfer files between one another over the
Internet. |
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Fixed font
| Fonts in which the widths of all
letters are the same. |
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Followed link
| A link that has been accessed. |
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Font
| The typeface of text, such as Times
Roman or Helvetica. |
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Font attributes
| The font, style, type size, and
color of text. |
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Form
| An interactive element of a Web
page that can be used to exchange
information. Visitors to a Web site can
enter information into a form and then send it to
different sources, through e-mail or directly into
a database. |
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Frame
| A Web page feature that divides the
information appearing on the screen so you can
simultaneously view different pages from one
location. Many of the older (still widely
used) browsers are not able to view Web pages that
are created using frames. |
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Freeware
| Programs that are freely
distributed in which the author(s), require no
registration fees. |
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FTP client
| A program used to access and
transfer files to and from FTP sites. |
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Gateway
| A combination of hardware and
software that links two different types of
computer networks. |
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GIF
| Graphics Interchange Format:
A file format originally developed to transfer
graphics over the Internet. See Animated
Images. Animated GIF's are popular
banner ad graphics. |
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Graphical interface
| A computer display format that
enables users to launch programs, select commands,
and view file lists by pointing to and selecting
icons on the screen. |
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Graphic Link
| A graphical page element that links
one Web document to another. |
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Heading
| A specially formatted title or
topic line of text used to separate and organize
information in a document. |
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Heading cells
| Cells within a table that specify
format data to represent titles or topic names for
rows and columns. Usually, heading cell data
is offset by appearing as bold text. |
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| Home page
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Horizontal rule line
| A line used to divide areas of a
document. |
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Host Name
| The first name in an URL after the
protocol, which denotes the computer's domain. |
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HTML
| See Hypertext Markup Language |
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Hyperlink
| A textural or graphical page
element that links one Web document/page to
another. Also known as "link". |
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Hypertext
| Text, images, and sounds that can
be linked together to allow the browsing of
related topics in a non-structured way. |
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Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)
| A computer language used to write
documents for the World Wide Web.
(Everything you see in the site that you looking
at now was written in HTML.) |
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Image maps
| Graphic elements with
mouse-sensitive hyperlinked areas. Often you
will see images maps used as main menus on Web
sites enabling viewers to jump to different areas
within the same page, other pages of the site, or
even different Web sites. |
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Index
| A list of categories an
subcategorizes, arranged from general to more
specific at each level in a site. |
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Indirect Internet connection
| A computer that is not directly
connected to the Internet, but is one client among
many other clients connect to a server.
Their server, in turn, is connect to the
Internet. Many businesses run there
computers systems in this manner. |
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Integrated Services Digital Network
(ISDN)
| A communications protocol for
sending data, voice, video over digital telephone
lines. |
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Internet
| A global network of networks
allowing the public exchange of information and
commerce. |
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Internet Service Provider (ISP)
| A company that provides access to
the Internet. |
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IP address
| A four-part, numeric identifier for
computers and devices on a TCP-/IP network.
Each of the four parts are numbers from 0 to 255,
separated by a period. |
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Java
| An object-oriented programming
language developed by Sun Microsystems used to
create multimedia applications for the Internet. |
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JPEG
| Joint Photographic Experts Group,
which is the name of the standards organization
that developed the image format. |
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K
Keyword
| A word or phrase used in database
searches to find specific information.
Keywords are used in search engines by Internet
surfers who want to locate specific information. |
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Kilobits per second
| Data transfer speed on a network or
modem. One Kbps is equal to 1024 bits per
second. |
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Kilobyte
| Equal to 1024 bytes.
Abbreviated as KB. |
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LAN
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Link
| A textural or graphical page
element consisting of an anchor and a
target. Links are used to "jump"
within a single document or from one document to
another on the Internet. Also called a
hyperlink. |
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Local Area Network (LAN)
| A network community used to link
computers that are close together, usually an
office, sometimes a group of buildings belonging
to the same company. |
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Majordomo
| A public mailing list program. |
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Markup Language
| A document layout and
hypermedia-specification language. |
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| Megabyte
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Motherboard
| The main circuit board in a
computer. |
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Multimedia
| The integration of text, images,
video, animation, and sound. eLink
Productions is your one-stop source for multimedia
projects. |
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Network
| Two or more computers linked
together, either locally by wire or in widely
dispersed areas by telephone lines or radio waves,
in order to share data. |
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Newsgroup
| An online discussion group in which
participants can exchange ideas and opinion by
posting messages to a public area. |
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No frames option
| An option that eLink uses in your
frame documents that offers users an alternative
to viewing your site with frames. Many
browsers that Internet users have do not allow
them to view the content of a Web site that is
using frames. |
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Ordered List
| A collection of items in HTML
documents that must be displayed in a specific
pattern, such as instructions or table of
contents. |
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Plug-in
| An application that extends the
capabilities of a browser.
"Flash" is a plug-in. |
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Posting
| Newsgroup messages that are
transmitted automatically to news servers in a
news network. |
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Post Office Protocol
| A communications protocol used by
mail servers to exchange e-mail. |
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Preferences
| Options you use to customize
browsers, such as changing the colors and fonts of
the display screen, adjusting whether you see
images or not, and security options. |
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Profile
| Information necessary to locate and
log on to an FTP site, such as site name, URL,
user identification, and password. |
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Protocol
| The format that two computers use
for transmitting data between them. |
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Public domain
| Items, such as files, you can use
without infringing on a copyright. |
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Q
Query
| A question or series of questions
submitted to search engines to find keywords or
phrases. |
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RealAudio
| A audio format for files that
enables you to hear sounds as files load. |
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Reset Button
| An HTML action button that clears
and resets the default values in a form. |
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RGB
| Red, green, blue- These three
colors of light can be mixed to produce any other
color. |
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Router
| An intermediary device on a
communications network that receives transmitted
messages and forwards them to their correct
destinations. |
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Scrollable frame
| A frame that contains a scroll bar
you can use to view information that is not fully
visible in the frame. |
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Search engine
| Also known as a search utility,
search engines are remote programs used to perform
keyword searches for information on the Internet. |
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Server
| A computer that stores information
and processes requests from client computers. |
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Server name
| Specifies the server on which Web
pages reside. The server name is also
commonly known as the domain name. |
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Shareware
| Programs that are freely
distributed in which the author, or authors,
request users to register the program for a small
fee. |
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ShockWave
| A set of programs developed by
Macromedia, Inc. that allows the combination of
sound, text, animation, and video into an
interactive file or files to be accessed over the
Internet. |
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Side headings
| Headings that display beside a
table row. |
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Streaming
| The ability to hear sound files as
they load. |
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Submit button
An HTML action button that
activates a form-processing sequence when clicked
by the user.
"Send" button |
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Table
| A collection of numbers, words, or
graphics arranged in related rows and
columns. Each row and column consists of a
series of intersecting cells. |
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Text Link
| A link that consists of text, which
is usually underlined and a different color than
the rest of the text in this page. Example
is the "BACK TO TOP"
link. When clicked on with the mouse, the
text link takes you back to the top of the page. |
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Transparent Image
| Images that have been specially
formatted to allow the page background to show
through the image background, giving the remainder
of the image the appearance of floating on the
page. |
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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
| A Web address used to display a
specific Web page. |
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User name
| A unique name or number that an ISP
or online service uses to identify a user. |
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Virus
| A piece of computer code or program
that is designed by a person, or group of people,
to cause harm to computers. |
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Visited link
| A link that has been accessed. |
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Wide Area Network (WAN)
| A group of computers linked
together via telephone lines or radio
waves. WANs can also be a system of
LANs connected together. |
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World Wide Web (WWW)
| The area of the Internet in which
you can view documents that contain text combined
with a variety of other media, including graphics,
sounds, and animation. |
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Z
Zip file
| One or more files that are
compressed to reduce file size. |
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