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Glossary

absolute URL -

An absolute URL is a complete URL specifying the exact location of a file on the web, including the protocol, the host name, and the exact path to the file location.

Tim Berners-Lee -

Tim Berners-Lee was one of the true pioneers of the Internet, essentially developing the information system what we know today as the "WordWideWeb". This included http, the language computer would use to communicate hypertext documents over the internet and a method for assigning addresses to documents know today as Uniform Resource Locator (URL). He also wrote the first web server language and language formatting for hyper text pages (HTML).

Berners-Lee also founded the World Wide Web Consortium (WC3) to develop standards and recommendations for the Web.

browser -

A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information on a website.

content -

Content is the text, images, video, sounds, and animations on a website.

CSS -

Cascading Style Sheets, defines the look of a page or multiple pages on a website. CSS properties define aesthetic attributes like color, font, margins, borders, backgrounds, etc.

div -

The div tag gives structure and context to any block-level content in a document. The div tag cam be used as a wrapper for multi-element content that is governed by a style sheet.

Domain Name -

A domain name is a name that uniquely identifies a site on the Internet (like cnn.com).

font -

A font container defines font characteristics for a elements attributes. This is typically defined in style sheets.

FTP -

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a network protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network, such as the Internet.

homepage -

The opening or the beginning page of a website. Servers typically recognize index.html as a website default homepage.

HTML -

HyperText Markup Language is the language for formatting and linking webpages.

index.html -

A site's root file or homepage.

Internet -

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that interchange data.

link -

A reference in a hypertext document that links to another page or resource.

meta tag -

Place in the <head> section of webpages, meta tags define keywords for search engines.

network neutrality -

Net neutrality is a principle that broadband networks should be free of restrictions on equipment that may be attached, on the modes of communication allowed, which does not restrict content, sites or platforms, and where communication is not unreasonably degraded by other communication streams.

URL -

Uniform Resource Locator is a compact string of characters used to represent a resource available on the Internet.

W3C -

World Wide Web Consortium is an international consortium where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards and to ensure long-term growth for the www.

WWW -

The Word Wide Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet.