INTERNET TERMINOLOGY
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets - It is a 'styling language' which is used in conjunction with HTML to create web pages. The HTML 'codes' build the content of the page whereas the CSS 'codes' take care of the presentation and the way the page will display.
BLOG
"Blog" stands for "weblog". A blog is a website with dated entries, usually by a single author, often accompanied by links to other blogs that the sites editor visits on a regular basis. It is a personal journal that is frequently updated and intended for the general public.
DOMAIN NAME
This is your name on the web - unique to every website.
Some names appear repeated but each is still unique as no two Domain Names can use the same name
AND the same TLD (Top Level Domain ie 'domain type') - eg '.co.uk', '.com', '.biz', '.net' etc
HTML
Hyper Text Mark-up Language - one of the 'languages' used to write web pages. File extension: 'file.htm' or 'file.html'
INTERNET
The Internet is a massive network of networks, a networking infrastructure. It connects millions of computers together via telephone lines, forming a network in which any computer can communicate with any other computer as long as they are both to the Internet. Information that travels over the Internet does so via a variety of languages known as protocols.
ISP
Internet Service Provider - this is the company you use to link to the Internet.
JPEG
Image file format widely used on the Internet (photographs). File extension: 'pic.jpeg' or 'pic.jpg
NAMESERVER
Domain Name Server: the server where your Domain Name is located. For the website to show online, the Nameserver needs to point to the Server where the website files are stored (“hosted“).
SEARCH ENGINES
As the name implies, these are powerful 'search tools' - eg Google, Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista etc. They use 'search robots' (also known as 'spiders') which look for relevant keywords and themes among all the websites in order to fufill requests put to them by the Internet surfers.
SERPs
SERPs stands for 'Search Engine Results Pages' is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. The results normally include a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query.
TLD
'Top level Domain' - eg '.co.uk', '.com', '.net', '.biz', '.org' etc
This is the 'extension' bit at the end of your Domain Name.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator - The address of a website, eg. www.mysite.com
W3C
W3C: World Wide Web Consortium.
The W3C was founded in 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common
protocols that promote its evolution
and ensure long-term growth of the web.
The W3C offer a free 'validation' service which checks web documents in formats like HTML for
their conformance to W3C recommendations
and other standards.
WEB BROWSERS
Software which enables the web-user to view the web pages - the 2 most popular
nowadays are:
Microsoft Internet Explorer (known as IE - eg IE5, IE6, IE7)
latest version: 7
representing approx 88% of users)
Netscape Navigator
latest version: 8
(representing approx 7.5% of users)
WEB HOSTING
A Web Host or Hosting Company is an organisation that provides you with space to put your web site and makes your web site viewable by others on the Web.
WWW.
World Wide Web - often referred to as 'the web'. It is a way of accessing information over the medium of the Internet. It is an information-sharing model that is built on top of the Internet. Many people use the terms Internet and World Wide Web interchangeably, but in fact the two terms are not synonymous. The Internet and the Web are two separate but related things. The Web is just one of the ways that information can be disseminated over the Internet. The Internet, not the Web, is also used for e-mail, Usenet news groups, instant messaging and FTP. So the Web is just a portion of the Internet, albeit a large portion, but the two terms are not synonymous and should not be confused.
