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- Website design
is like putting together the pieces of a puzzle. Clients need to know
what various terms mean in order to have a better understanding of their
options and, for that matter, just where the heck the website is and
how to see it!
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- banner
- A graphic image,
usually created as a page header (at the top or head of the page) for
a website or as an ad when advertising your website on another
- browser
- The software on
your computer that translates the coding and allows you to view a page
- most people use Netscape, Internet Explorer or America Online browsers.
Each has a different way of seeing pages.
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- configuring
your browser
- When you configure
your browser, you set all the controls that personalize it for you.
It can be simple things like whether you like your links to be underlined
and what color they should be after yo'uve visited them. This is also
where you save favorites and bookmarks.
digital format
- In a form that
can be sent over the Internet - via email - or on a CD or on a ZIP disk.
This could be a scanned image, a Microsoft Word document or plain text
email.
- domain name
- A unique website
name, registered with Internic, usually ending in .com, .net, .gov,
.edu, org, etc. Also referred to as URL or website address
- email address
- A unique address
for sending and receiving email, i.e., yourname@yourdomain.com - automatically
chosen when setting up an ISP account and when setting up a domain name
- protected by account name and password when configuring your browser
or email software
- homepage
- The first page
of your website.
- HTML
- Acronym for Hyper
Text Mark-up Language.This is the code used to make your website pages
appear the way you want them to - used by the designer and webmaster
to create your pages
- hyperlink
- A word or image
which, when mouse-clicked, takes you to a page with more information
- same as link
- image
- A logo, photograph,
custom graphic, map, animated graphic. Too many and the page takes too
long to download.
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- Internic
- A database of registered
domain names, regulated so that only the website administrator or website
technical contact can make changes. These are the people who make sure
there are no duplicate website domain names. There is about a $35 per
year charge for you to keep your domain name, and you must renew it
before it expires.
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- ISP
- Acronym for Internet
Service Provider. The account you set up so you can connect with the
Internet.
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- keywords
- Any word or phrase
that has particular significance to the content of your website. When
someone uses a search engine to find information you have, your website
should be suggested in response to the search query when your keywords
are used.
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- link
- A word or image
which, when clicked, takes you to a page with more information - same
as hyperlink
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- meta tag
- Text in the coding
of the HTML structure of your page, which the user does not see - most
commonly used are the "description" and “keyword”
meta tags. The first is a maximum 25-word sentence, the second is a
list of search terms or keywords. Search engines and directories use
these meta tags as one method of indexing or finding websites.
- online
- You are connected
by dial-up, DSL or cable to the Internet. (Some companies may have more
powerful connections.)
- page
- Roughly an 8.5"
x 10" printed page, including text and images.
- search engine
- Like a huge index
of all the wesites on the Internet. It returns results when keywords
are entered as search terms.There are thousands of search engines, some
good and some not so good. I submit websites to the 20 most popular
ones .
- server
- the computer holding
files that are accessed by your (or anyone else's) computer when you
are connected to the internet (online) and have typed in a valid URL
- URL
- short for Universal
Resource Locator, same as website address or domain name
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- webmaster
- the person in charge
of your website maintenance
- website address
- same as domain
name or URL
- website administrator
- a person registered
by you with the Internic as a contact able to make changes to your domain
name information. This might be used if you change web hosts, for example,
or if something about your domain name changes. The registered technical
contact do this also.
- website hosting
- a service provided
by a company who owns the server where your website pages are stored
- website maintenance
- all the work done
with the website once it has been placed (uploaded) to the server. Can
include making changes to the images or content and submitting to search
engines and directories by the the webmaster (not all webmasters do
the extra work of search submissions)
- website technical
contact
- a person registered
by you with the Internic as a contact who can make changes to your domain
name information.
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