Hypertext Markup Language - commonly known as HTML. This is the language that allows you to use hypertext links and to view Web pages.

The coding in the HTML files tells your browser how to display the text, graphics, links, and multimedia files on the Web page.

Hypertext links - All Web pages are hypertext documents that contain hypertext links. A hypertext link is highlighted text that connects to other pages on the Web (either on the same computer or a computer across the city, country, or world). Hypertext links allow you to jump from one place to another on the Web.

Microsoft Internet Explorer - a newer Web browser that is quickly becoming one of the most popular Web browsers.

Netscape Navigator- currently the most popular Web browser used to view Web pages.

Publishing - Uploading a document (Web page) to a Web server, so that it can be viewed by the public. Publishing allows you to share information with people around the world. You must inform search directories and search engines, such as Altavista and Yahoo, about your page so that others on the Internet will be able to see your Web page.

Tags - Codes that are placed before and after text or graphics in a HTML document(Web page) that tell the Web browser how to display the text or graphics.

Target - An icon on the Netscape Composer menu that inserts a tag insdie a document. This allows you to jump to that location within that document. The target tag always begin with the # symbol.

URL - uniform resource locator. Address of a Web page that allows you to instantly display the Web page. It consists of several parts: http:// details which Internet protocol to use. The second part (usually has a www in it) tells what kind of Internet resource is being contacted. The third part, e.g. cuip.uchicago.edu identifies the Web server to be contacted. The final part identifies a specific directory on the server and a home page, document, or other Internet object.

Web editor - Software, such as Netscape Communicator and Microsoft Frontpage, that can be used to ceate HTML documents. Web editors enter the HTML tags for you, therefore, it is not necessary for you to know HTML computer language to create Web pages.

Web page - a document on the Web. Web pages can include text, graphics, sound, and video, and animation.

Web Site - a Web site is a collection of Web pages maintained by a college, university, government agency, company, or individual

Web Server - A Web server is a computer connected to the Internet that makes Web pages available to the world.

World Wide Web - the fastest growing and most innovative part of the Internet. You can view multimedia pages composed of text, graphics, sound, and video
 
 

Sources:

Internet and the World Wide Web Simplified, 2nd ed., IDG Books Worldwide, Inc., 1997

Gralla, P. How the Internet Works, 4th ed., 1998

Szczerba, P. A. Netscape Communicator Made Easy Training Manual, 1997