Access. Refers to the ability of the user to connect to a database,
or Internet service.
Accessibility. Guidelines for designing web contents accessible to
people with disabilities and more available to all users whatever software,
hardware and platform they are using to access the Web and for making it easier
to find information on the Web.
Anchor. Text and graphical elements embedded with hyperlinks and
other objects users click on to jump to a web document pointed by the browser.
Applications software. A program that is designed to perform a specific
task.
ASCII. The encoding system called American Standard Code for Information
Interchange
Backup. Pertains to a procedure or device to make a duplicate of
a system or data for future use in the event of loss from the server or hard
disk due to various factors
Client. Computers that requests information on a web server.
Client / server. The computing architecture that designates computers
as servers or clients dividing the workload.
Content. Textual, graphic elements, and other information in several
media types that comprises a web page.
Design. Overall style, structure, and presentation of a web page.
Domain name. The familiar name of the computer hosting the web site
of an individual or organization that correspond to a series of numbers (IP
address) that serve as routing addresses on the Internet.
Domain Name System (DNS). An Internet service that translates domain
names into IP addresses.
DNS Servers. Servers on the Internet that acts as Internet Directory
transforming domain names into IP addresses. Points to the location of a web
host by providing their IP address transformed from their domain names.
Domain Name Registrars. Companies accredited by ICANN (The Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) that offers registration services
for the domain names of organizations and individuals.
Electronic mail. A communications tool used to send messages to and
from computers. Also called e-mail.
End user. Same as user. The individual providing input or using output
from the computer.
FTP. File Transfer protocol. Refers to the protocol and the program
used to transfer files from one computer to another.
Graphics. Images, Icons, and other graphical elements found on a
web page.
Home page. The main page of a Web site that typically serve as an
index or table of contents to other web pages.
Hyperlinks. The embedded hypertext links that points to other web
pages and other related resources.
Hypertext. Presents and relates information in a non-linear and non-hierarchical
organization allowing the user to view related information through a system
of hypertext links (hyperlinks).
HyperText Markup Language (HTML). The standard language used to create
web pages. Markup language that uses tags and attributes that web browsers
interpret to display web pages on the screen.
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). The underlying protocol behind
the World Wide Web.
ICANN. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
is the non-profit corporation that was formed to assume responsibility for
the IP address space allocation, protocol parameter assignment, domain name
system management, and root server system management functions previously
performed under U.S. Government contract by IANA and other entities
Icons. Pictographs that are used in a Windows environment to indicate
operations such as copy, save, delete, etc.
Information. The output of information processing. Useful data
Information system. Generally a computer based system for storing
and retrieving data and information.
Intellectual property rights. Recognized legal claim to ownership
of recorded or manifested ideas.
Interactive. Pertaining to online where there is immediate interaction
between user and the computer.
InterNIC. The Internet's Network Information Center has been established
to provide the public information regarding Internet domain name registration
services.
Internet. A global network of computers communicating under one set
of guidelines formally called the TCP/IP.
Intranet. An internal network belonging to an organization that uses
TCP/IP with access limited only to members of the organization.
IP address. A series of numbers called Internet Protocol numbers
that serve as routing addresses on the Internet used to locate and communicate
information on the Internet.
Navigation. The system used to explore and view the set of information
and related information on a web site.
Netiquette. The accepted behavior online on the Net.
Program. A set of instructions for the computer to perform a particular
function. Also called software.
Protocols. The set of rules and standards computers used to communicate
with each other.
Site structure. The overall layout of the web site, the connection
and relationship of web documents on a web site.
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). The protocol used for sending
and receiving electronic mail.
Text editor. Applications programs used to edit ASCII files like
Notepad.
Top-level domains. Limited number of predefined suffixes attached
to Internet domain names. Some of these are: .com, .net, .org, .edu, and .mil.
Uniform Resource Locator (URL). Is the uniform naming scheme that
specifies unique addresses for web servers, documents and other resources,
no matter what its access protocol.
Upload. The process of transferring files from a client computer
to a server through the Internet.
User friendly. Used to describe a user interface that enables the
inexperienced user to interact successfully with the computer
Web browser. Application software used to search and display web
pages. The client software used to access the Web.
Web host. The machine that hosts web sites and applications programs
needed to serve documents on the Internet. See web server
Web page. An electronic document on the World Wide Web formatted
using HTML and displayed using a web browser.
Web server. The computer running application software that listens
and respond to a client computer's request made through a web browser.
Web site. A collection of related web pages of a certain individual,
group, or organization connected through a system of hyperlinks, hosted in
a particular domain.
World Wide Web. A global hypertext information system that serve
as a way to access and provide information in various media via the Internet.
