Definitions of Terms

A Banner Ad is an advertisement that is displayed on the World Wide Web.



Bread crumbs are used for navigation on web pages, that the main focus is to lead the user, so they can trace their way back to the start..


A browser can be multiple things. One can be a web browser that displays web pages, one is a file browser that searches through files for the right one, another is a help browser, that checks online for help, and the last is a code browser that can search through code to find certain areas and look for errors in the code.


A Domain Name's purpose is to show readable words to the average person from mostly numerically named web sites.


Dynamic Content - Changes every day or anytime.


Dynamic Layout - Simple Javascript library that allows you to adjust the page layout so it can easily fit the browser window.


Static Content - Content does not change.


Static Layout - A Web site that is fixed and does not try to fill in spaces or compress.


Footer - Separated from main text and is located at bottom of page.


Header - Separated from main text and is located at the top of the page.


Hosting / Web Hosting - Allows individuals and organizations to create and share their own website on the World Wide Web.


HTML - initialism of the words, HyperText Markup Language, is a predominant markup language for web pages.


Hyperlinks / Links - a link or other navigation tab to another web site or picture that may be on the same document, web site, or any other web site.


Interactive Websites - web sites that the user can 'play' around on and that grab the attention more from users, but may be hard to figure out what it is used for or navigation.


Web 2.0 - Web 2.0 concepts have led to the development and evolution of web-culture communities and hosted services, such as social-networking sites, video sharing sites, wikis, and blogs.


ISP - Internet Provider Service, is a company that offer it's customers access to the internet.


Navigation - usually provided by links or images that help users get around on site. (Links are all over website.)


Mystery Meat-Navigation - objects on the screen that do not immediately tell where or what they navigate to until cursor is passed over, and then disappear when cursor is not over them, rendering the user confused, because they do not remember which button is which, so they have to spend time finding all of the correct tabs, unless they memorize them.


Screen Real-Estate - the amount of space available on a display for an application to provide output.


Scrolling - moving the window, so that the hidden parts of the screen at the top or bottom can be seen.


Search Engines - Primary: Google.com is one, it searches the whole internet, but includes advertisements. Secondary: one website's search engine that only searches their site.


Tag - starts and ends code, such as a in <> and /a in <>. (had to do it that way, blogger didn't like it the normal way)


URL - Uniform Resource Locator: is like a URI that displays where a resource is and a mechanism for retrieving it.


W3C - World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization.

Web Statistics - the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web site usage.

Web Site “Hits” - Web sites that get usage and show it and record it.

Website Maintenance - Maintenance on a Website, that is being updated and changed for better use or a huge change.

HTML Tags

This is a Header saying,"Welcome to my Blog."

This is a Title
This is in the First Cell	This is in the Second Cell

This is a Link to another site

There is a comment the line above this^

MotherLoad Use your digger to excavate as much ore as possible

Play this free game now!!

This has been italisized
This is a bold sentence

This is one paragraph.

 

This is another paragraph separated by a space from the first one.

This sentence has been pierced



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