- Vocabulary:
- Anchors: (also called targets) For the purpose of hyper-linking two
places on the same web page or to, the target of the hyperlink.
Image map: an image on a webpage that has geometric areas defined that
function as clickable links.
- Bandwidth: The amount of data you can send through a network connection.
Bandwidth is usually measured in bits-per-second (bps).
- Bit: one binary digit - this digit is represented either as a 0 or
1. Bits are usually used to measure transfer speed.
- Byte: a byte is 8 bits. Bytes are usually used to measure storage
space.
- Contrast - To show differences when compared.
- Coordinates: Any of a set of two or more numbers used to determine
the position of a point, line, curve, or plane
- Folder: another word for a directory on a computer. Folders are used
to organize and store files.
- GIF: A image file invented by the CompuServe Company that uses indexed
color-space. GIF files work better for graphic and clip art images.
- Hierarchy: a relationship between people or things that is organized.
- Home page: The first page on a Web site that acts as the starting
point for navigation. Usually the home page offers hyperlinks that you
can click to go to other pages on the web site.
- Hyperlink: An address to another webpage either internally within
a wesite (relative link), or a web address to a webpage outside on the
WWW (hardlink).
- Hypertext [ HTML Hypertext Markup Language] A term coined by Ted Nelson
to refer to a nonlinear system of information browsing and retrieval
that contains associative links to other related documents.
- Hypertext is the basic organizing principle of the WWW. The coded
format used to create WWW documents. HTML commands control how a piece
of text will appear. Files in html format are viewed with a Web browser.
- Image map: an image on a webpage that has geometric areas defined
that function as clickable links.
- JPEG: (Joint Photographic Experts Group) A file format using lossy
compression. Commonly used for photographic images on the Internet.
- Pixels: The basic unit of the composition of an image on a television
screen, computer monitor, or similar display.
- Resolution: the amount of pixels per inch on a screen or dots per
inch in print.
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