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Comp 4.0 Web Page Design Vocabulary
MM & Web Page - comp 4.0 Web Page Design
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Computer Science
11th Grade
05/17/2011

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A worldwide collection of computer networks that links millions of computers used by businesses, the government, education institutions, organizations, and individuals using modems, telephone lines, television cables, and other communications devices and media.

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Internet
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A group of two or more computers that are connected to share resources and information.

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Network
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A collection of high-speed data lines that connect major computer systems located around the world.

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Internet backbone
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A company that has a permanent connection to the Internet backbone, which utilize high or medium speed data lines to allow individuals and companies to connect to the backbone for access to the Internet.

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Internet Service Provider
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A part of the Internet that supports multimedia and consists of a collection of linked documents.

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World Wide Web
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A collection of web pages that is created and maintained by an individual, company, educationsal institution, or other organziation.

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Web site
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The first document one see when they access the Web site.

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Home page
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A computer that stores and sends (serves) requested Web pages and other files.

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Web server (Host)
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Copying Web page and other files to a Web server.
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Publishing
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Buying and selling goods on the Internet.
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E-commerce
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A private network that uses standard Internet technologies to share company information among employees.

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Intranet
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A private network that uses Internet technologies to share business information with select corporate partners or key customers.

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Extranet
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A program that interprets and displays Web pages and enables you to view and interact with a Web page.
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Web browser
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The address of a document or other file accessiable on the Internet.

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Uniform Resource Locator (URL)
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An element used to connect one Web page to another Web page on the same, or a different, Web server located anywhere in the world.

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Hyperlink
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A program that allows a user to enter , change, save, and print text, such as HTML.

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Text Editor
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A program that provides a graphical user interface that allows a developer to preview the Web page during its development.

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WYSIWYG editor
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A web site structure that connect Web pages in a tree-like structure, and works well on a site with a main index or table of contents page that links to all other Web pages.

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Hierarchical Web Site
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A Web site structure that connects Web pages in a straight line.

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Linear Web Site
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A Web site structure that has not set organization and works best on Web sites with information that does not need to be read in a a specific order.

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Webbed Web site
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A web site structure in which the home page is the main index page, and all other Web pages are linked individually to the home page.

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Broad Web site
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A Web site that has many level of pages, requiring the user to click many times to reach a particular web page.
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Deep Web Site
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A basic text editor you can use for simple documents  or for creating Web pages using HTML.  (What we use here at school)

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Notepad
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Contains the information that is displayed in the browser window.

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Web Page Body
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An image or graphic file that is not part of the HTML file, instead it merges the separate graphic file into the Web page as it is displayed in the browser window.

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Inline Image
Term

A special type of inline image in which you define one or more areas as hotspots.

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Image Map
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An area of an image that activates a function when selected.

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Hotspot
Term

Text, image, or another Web page element that you click to instruct the browser to go to a location in a file or to rquest a file from a server.

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Link
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Indicates the version and type of HTML used; includes a URL reference to a DTD.

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<!DOCTYPE>
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A file containing definitions of tags and how they shold be used in a Web page.

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DTD (Document Type Definition)
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Indicates the start and end of an HTML document.
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<html> </html>
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Indicates the start and end of a section of the document used for the title and other document header information.

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<head> </head>
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Indicates the start and end of the title.  The title does not appear in the body of the Web page, but appears on the title bar of the browser.

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<title> </title>
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Indicates the start and end of the Web page body.
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<body> </body>
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Indicates the start and end of the text section called a heading; sizes range from <h1> through<h6>.

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<hn> </hn>
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Indicates the start of a new paragraph; inserts a blank line above the new paragraph.

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<p> </p>
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Indicates the start and end of an unordered (bulleted) list.

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<ul> </ul>
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Indicates that the item that follows the tag is an item within a list.

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<li> </li>
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Inserts a horizontal line.
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<hr />
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Inserts a line break at the point where the tag appears.
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<br />
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Tags that the W3C has earmarked for eventual removal from their specifications, because those tags have been replaced with newer, more functional tags.

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Deprecated tags
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The document type that allows for the use of deprecated tags.

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Transitional Document Type
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The tags that indicate the start and end of a bulleted list.

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<ul> </ul>
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The tags that indicate the start and end of a numbered list.

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<ol> </ol>
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The tag that is used to define a list item in an order or unordered list.

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<li> </li>
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The tag that is used to offset informaiton in a dictionary-like style.

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<dl> </dl>
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The tag that indicates a term in a definition list.
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<dt> </dt>
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The tag that indicates a definition in a definition list.
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<dd> </dd>
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Align, Alt, Border, Height, hspace, Src, Vspace, and width are all considered...
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Image Attributes
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The attribute that controls alignment and can be set to bottom, middle, top, left, or right.

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Align
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The attribute that sets alternative text to display when an image is being loaded.

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Alt
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The attribute that defines the border width.
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Border
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The attribute that defines the height of the image and improves loading time.

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Height
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The attribute that defines the horizontal space that separates the image from the text.

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hspace
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The attribute that defines the URL of the image to be loaded.

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src
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The attribute that defines the vertical space that separates the image from the text.

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vspace
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The attribute that defines the width of the image and improves loading time.

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Width
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