Glossary
- Web Browser
- A software application used to locate, retrieve and also display content on the World Wide Web, including web pages, images, video and other files
- Web Server
- A computer that deliver (serves up) Web pages. Every Web server has an IP address and possibly a domain name. For example, if you enter the URL http://fresnostate.edu/index.html in your browser, this sends a request to the Web server whose domain name is fresnostate.edu. The server then fetches the page named index.html and sends it to your browser.
- Web Page
- A hypertext document accessible via the World Wide Web
- IP Address
- A unique string of numbers separated by periods that identifies each computer attached to the Internet
- URL
- Uniform (or universal) Resource Locator, the address of a World Wide Web page. A URL is more specific than a domain name in that it can point to a particular file (ex. http://www.myawesomesite.com/lunch.html is a URL pointing to a file named lunch.html inside the domain name of myawesomesite.com)
- DNS/Domain Registration
- Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses. Domain registration refers to the process of registering a domain name, which identifies one or more IP addresses with a name that is easier to remember and use in URLs to identify particular Web pages.
- Web Host/ing
- A Web host is in the business of providing server space, Web services and file maintenance for Web sites controlled by individuals or companies that do not have their own Web servers.
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web. HTML defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes.
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets: describes how HTML elements are to be displayed on screen, paper, or in other media. It can control the layout of multiple web pages all at once. External stylesheets are stored in CSS files.
- Javascript
- A scripting language, primarily used on the Web. It is used to enhance HTML pages and is commonly found embedded in HTML code. JavaScript is an interpreted language. Thus, it doesn't need to be compiled. JavaScript renders web pages in an interactive and dynamic fashion, allowing the pages to react to events, exhibit special effects, accept user input, validate data, create cookies, detect a user’s browser, etc.
- CMS
- Content Management System: a softare tool designed to support the management of the content of Web pages. Most popular CMSs are also WCMSs. Web content includes text and embedded graphics, photos, video, audio, maps, and program code (e.g., for applications) that displays content or interacts with the user.
- Web Standards
- The Web Standards Project is a collective project and effort of Web developers, tool developers, and end users whose goal is to stop the fragmentation of the web by persuading the browser makers that common standards are in everyone's best interest.
- Accessibility
- Web accessibility means that websites, tools, and technologies are designed and developed so that people with disabilities can use them. /dd>
- WYSIWYG
- “What You See Is What You Get” — referring a screen display that shows text exactly as it will appear in output, including underlining, various typefaces, as italics, line spacing, end-of-line breaks, and paragraph indentations.
- Specificity
- The mechanism by which CSS works. It is used to determine which selectors are more specific than others, and ultimately which rules will apply to a given element.
- Selector
- The part of the CSS line that selects which HTML element to apply the styles to.
- Property
- Within a CSS declaration, the property sits inside the curly brackets after the selector and defines what exactly will be adjusted within the selected HTML element.
- Value
- Following the property, inside the curly brackets, the value defines the change that will happen to the property of the selected HTML element.
- Tag
- Markup characters that designate either the start or end of an element, but not the element content itself.
- Element
- A of node in the document tree. A HTML element is represented by a start tag like
<h1> and an end tag like </h1>.
- Semantics
- Semantics relate to meaning. Semantic elements and attributes provide a higher level of communication. Lay people looking only at how a page displays may never get that additional communication, but machines can. Providing that extra meaning allows machines to translate it for people.