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Definitions
- broken links:
- A link or hyperlink that no longer works when a page loads. In other words, when the link or image is "clicked on" it does not take the user to the destination it was supposed too. This also applies to graphics that do not load on a page. This occurs for several reasons: the server hosting the web site has shut down temporarily or has been restarted, the Web site has moved to an entirely new server, the file or files have been moved or deleted, or the html code for the hyperlink is incorrect.
- domain name:
- The address or url of a particular website. The primary domains of the internet are .COM, .INT, .NET, .MIL, and .ORG, which refer to Commercial, International, Network, Military, and Organization. These domains are administered by the Internic. There are also two-letter domains associated with specific countries and/or provinces (.on.ca).
- HTML:
- Hypertext Markup Language - the language that web sites are written in. Uses a variety of tags for structure and design.
- hyperlink:
- also known as just "link"
The text you find on a Web site which can be "clicked on" with a mouse which in turn will take you to another Web page or a different area of the same Web page. Hyperlinks are created or "coded" in HTML. They are also used to load multimedia files such as AVI movies and AU sound files. - keywords:
- words used by your target market to search for you in search engines or directories. Used in part of the design process.
- meta tags:
- An optional HTML tag that is used to specify information about a Web document. Some search engines such as AltaVista use "spiders" to index Web pages. These spiders read the information contained within a page's META tag. So in theory, an HTML or Web page author has the ability to control how there site is indexed by search engines and how and when it will "come up" on a user's search.
- navigate:
- To move around on the World Wide Web by following hypertext paths from document to document on different computers.
- search engine:
- A program which acts as a card catalog for the Internet. Search engines attempt to index and locate desired information by searching for keywords in which a user specifies.
- site:
- A place on the Internet or World Wide Web. It refers to a body of information as a whole, for a particular domain name. A Web site is a place made up of Web pages. These pages can contain graphics, text, audio, video and other dynamic and static materials. The word "site" can also refer to an FTP site or archive site, which is a directory on a computer somewhere (server) which has been set up to allow users to access by logging in and retrieving or uploading files to it.
- surf:
- The term used to describe exploring the Internet randomly, a metaphor from real surfing.
- url:
- An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, URL's are a standardized format for giving a pointer to information available (like your street address is to Canada Post)
- web site:
- A home and/or location on the World Wide Web . A place made up of web pages. These pages can contain graphics, text, audio, video and other dynamic and/or static materials. As with many Internet terms "Web site" is constantly used interchangeably with other terms, like home page and "web page". So you may hear someone refer to their "home page" when in fact they are talking about an entire "Web site". Some even refer to a Web site simply as a "Web page". When really a Web page is just a single piece of potentially hundreds of other pages making up the entire "site" and the home page is more correctly the "front door" or entrance to the "web" of other pages it is linked to on the site. The process of moving through a Web site is called navigation.
- More definitions:
- http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.html
Last updated
03/15/05
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