Friday, August 1, 2008

Week 2 Vocabulary

The vocabulary quiz will be given on Friday, January 30th.







Text editor:
A program that allows you to manually key HTML commands into a blank document. Examples are Notepad and Wordpad.




WYSIWYG:
What you see is what you get. Software that enables you to see images on screen exactly as they will appear when printed.




Hypertext:
A system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to be linked in multiple ways.




HTTP:
Hypertext Transport Protocol. The standard used to send an HTML document across the World Wide Web.




HTML:
Hypertext Markup Language. The coding scheme used to format text for use on the World Wide Web.




Case Sensitive:
When it matters if letters are typed in uppercase or lowercase. Some programs are case sensitive. HTML is not.




Head:
The html tag used to enclose the beginning elements in the HTML document, including the title.




Body:
The section of the web page which contains all the text and graphics you see in a browser window.




Hexidecimal:
The base 16 number system used to assign color to web pages. It uses the numbers 0-9 and the letters A-F.




Post:
To place an HTML file on a server to make it available for browsing.