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broken
links:
A link or
hyperlink
that no longer works when a page loads.
In other words, when the link or image is "clicked on" it does
not take the user to the destination it was supposed too. This
also applies to graphics that do not load on a page. This
occurs for several reasons: the server hosting the web site
has shut down temporarily or has been restarted, the Web site
has moved to an entirely new server, the file or files
have been moved or deleted, or the
html
code for the hyperlink is incorrect.
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domain
name:
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The address or
url
of a particular website. The primary domains of the internet
are .COM, .INT, .NET, .MIL, and .ORG, which refer to
Commercial, International, Network, Military, and
Organization. These domains are administered by the Internic.
There are also two-letter domains associated with specific
countries and/or provinces (.on.ca).
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HTML:
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Hypertext Markup Language - the language
that web sites are written in. Uses a variety of tags for
structure and design.
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hyperlink:
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also known as just "link"
The text you find on a Web site which can be "clicked on" with
a mouse which in turn will take you to another Web page or a
different area of the same Web page. Hyperlinks are created
or "coded" in HTML. They are also used to load multimedia
files such as AVI movies and AU sound files.
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keywords:
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words
used by your target market to search for you in
search engines
or directories. Used in part of the design process.
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meta
tags:
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An optional HTML tag that is used to
specify information about a Web document. Some search engines
such as AltaVista use "spiders" to index Web pages. These
spiders read the information contained within a page's META
tag. So in theory, an HTML or Web page author has the ability
to control how there site is indexed by search engines and how
and when it will "come up" on a user's search.
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navigate:
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To move around on the World Wide Web by
following hypertext paths from document to document on
different computers.
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search engine:
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A program which
acts as a card catalog for the Internet. Search engines
attempt to index and locate desired information by searching
for
keywords
in which a user specifies.
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site:
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A place on the Internet
or World Wide Web. It refers to a body of information as a
whole, for a particular
domain name.
A Web site is a place made up of Web pages. These pages can
contain graphics, text, audio, video and other dynamic and
static materials. The word "site" can also refer to an FTP
site or archive site, which is a directory on a computer
somewhere (server) which has been set up to allow users to
access by logging in and retrieving or uploading files to it.
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surf:
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The term
used to describe exploring the Internet randomly, a metaphor
from real
surfing.
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url:
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An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator,
URL's are a standardized format for giving a pointer to
information available (like your street address is to Canada
Post)
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web site:
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A home and/or
location on the World Wide Web . A place made up of web
pages. These pages can contain graphics, text, audio, video
and other dynamic and/or static materials. As with many
Internet terms "Web site" is constantly used interchangeably
with other terms, like home page and "web page". So you may
hear someone refer to their "home page" when in fact they are
talking about an entire "Web site". Some even refer to a Web
site simply as a "Web page". When really a Web page is just a
single piece of potentially hundreds of other pages making up
the entire "site" and the home page is more correctly the
"front door" or entrance to the "web" of other pages it is
linked
to on the
site.
The process of moving through a Web site is called
navigation.
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More definitions:
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http://www.netlingo.com/inframes.html
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