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Browsers
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such as Netscape Navigator display HTML documents.
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Cascading style sheets (.css files)
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Documents that manage the appearance of web pages across
a site. Style sheets contain information about the fonts,
heading levels, colors, backgrounds, and other elements of
web pages
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Editors
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are software programs that help you create Web pages. Some
types, called WYSIWYGs, do the coding for you as you create
the page. You don't need a Web page editor to create web pages
because HTML is simply text--any text editor (like Word) will
work.
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Files
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hold information that can be displayed by an application.
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File
Extensions
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identify files by type. Extensions associate files with the
types of applications that can read them and appear as a period
followed by letters after the file name. Text files read and
displayed by browsers as web pages usually end in .html or
.htm. Graphic files for the web most often end in .gif or
.jpg. (This may be a new concept for MAC users since MAC operating
systems don't generally require file name extensions as PC
and UNIX operating systems do. Remember, however, that
browsers need the file name extensions to read files.)
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Folders
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hold any number of files in a directory.
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FTP
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File Transfer Protocol programs allow you to interact with
servers, sending and receiving files. MAC uses a program called
"Fetch."
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Heuristic
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A useful rule of thumb, a general strategy for problem solving
that has worked in the past. Guidelines that provide quick
and efficient strategies for making judgments and solving
many common usability problems.
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HTML
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(Hypertext Mark Up Language) is the format that files are
written in so that web servers can process them and make them
available to others over the Internet. Though there are other
coding forms used now, HTML is the basic staple of most web
development.
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Servers
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house, or store, web pages and sites. We access web sites
from servers and place our web pages on servers to be viewed
by others.
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Tags
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appear as letters inside < > brackets and are the part of
HTML that tells browsers what to display. For example, this
line include tags for bold and italics...
<b>Display a word in <i>italics</i>.</b>
and tells the browser to display the sentence this way:
Display a word in italics.
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URL
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Uniform Resource Locator and it is the "address" that each
page has. (http://www.yahoo.com is an example of a URL).
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Web pages
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are files that contain HTML coding, information, graphics
and other elements. A "page" shows up as one continuous length
of information.
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Web sites
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are groups of linked pages.
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Web Page Editor
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are software programs that help you create web pages. Some
types, called WYSIWYG editors, do the coding for you as you
create pages and sites. You don't need a Web page editor to
create pages because html is simply text and can be created
in any text editor. However, these types of programs have
been improving over the years and are often quite useful for
creating and managing large sites.
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