Terminology

Abstract: This document summarizes the terms used in this tutorial. Each entry has a term, the category assigned to that term, and a short description of the meaning or use of that term. At present, the document is relatively short, although it may grow in the future.

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Categories

Design and Markup

HTML

Hypertext

WWW or World-Wide Web

Miscellaneous

Definitions

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Absolute Link (Hypertext)

A link to another document based on the full description of the document. In HTML, such a link uses the full URL of the document, such as http://www.math.grin.edu/~rebelsky/.

Anchor (HTML)

Either a named portion of a document or a link to another document. In effect, anchors one end of a link.

ASML (Misc.)

The automated site markup language. A language for building sites, instead of documents.

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C

CGI (HTML)

The Common Gateway Interface, a standard protocol by which HTML pages send requests to programs running on servers.

D

E

End Tag (HTML)

A tag that comes at the end of a piece of annotated text. Usually has the form </name>.

F

Form (HTML)

Part of an HTML document in which users may enter data, usually for submission to a cgi script. Some forms are also used for input and output for JavaScript and VBScript scripts.

Frame (HTML)

A way of laying out pages in which the browser window is segmented into smaller areas (frames) and individual pages are loaded into the separate frames. Many consider frames to be an astoundling bad design feature of HTML.

G

GIF (Misc.)

The graphics image file format. A method of representing images electronically. Files whose names end in .gif are usually GIF files.

H

HTML (WWW)

The "HyperText Markup Language", used for annotating text to make it hypertext. HTML provides tags for both physical and logical markup.

HTTP (WWW)

The hypertext transfer protocol, used for transmitting documents from server to client.

I

Internal Link (Hypertext)

A link to another portion of the same document.

J

Java (Misc.)

A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems for large-scale application development. Java is often used for inserting small transportable programs within pages.

JavaScript (Misc.)

A programming language developed by Netscape for making pages interactive.

JPEG (Misc.)

A method of representing images electronically. Files whose names end in .jpeg are usually JPEG files.

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L

Link (Hypertext)

A connection from one hypertext node to another.

Logical Markup (Markup)

A method of annotating pages in which one describes the role individual pieces of text place (e.g., title, citation, heading, footer)

M

N

Node (Hypertext)

The basic unit of information in a hypertext system.

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P

Page (Hypertext)

A synonym for node, frequently used on the World-Wide Web

Perl (Misc.)

The practical extraction and report language. A programming language often used to build CGI scripts.

Physical Markup (Markup)

A method of annotating text in which the appearance of the text is described (e.g., Times Roman, 14pt, Italicized, indented 2 inches from the left margin).

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R

Relative link (Hypertext)

A link to another page on the same server that does not contain the full path (including server and such) to that page.

S

SGML (Markup)

The standard generalized markup language, a structure for developing markup languages upon which HTML is based.

SiteWeaver (Misc.)

A tool for building sites, rather than pages.

T

Tag (Markup)

An object used to annotate text in a markup language.

U

URL (WWW)

Universal Resource Locator. A way of identifying documents on the World-Wide Web.

V

VBScript (Misc.)

A programming language developed by Microsoft for making pages interactive.

W

World-Wide Web (WWW)

A hypertext system developed by Tim Berners-Lee and based upon HTML.

WYSIWYG (Design)

"What You See Is What You Get" -- a style of editor in which you see the format of your text as you edit it: bold text looks bold, italicized looks italiczed, larger text is larger, etc.

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