Some Terms and Definitions
- browser or client
- an interactive program used to access information on the Web
- Internet
- a global network of networks using the same communications protocol (TCP/IP). The World Wide Web is a subset of the Internet.
- server
- A computer that provides a service to other computers on a network (in this case, the network is the Internet.)
- URL: Uniform Resource Locator
- the unique address of a file on the WWW
- http://www.ripon.edu/faculty/thiemt/classpage/terms
- HTTP: HyperText Transport Protocol
- the protocol (set of rules) used to define client/server communications on the WWW
- HTML: HyperText Markup Language
- the "native" formatting language for documents on the WWW.
- WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
- the way some web editors are used to create html documents. A WYSIWYG editor allows the user to be able to create web pages without any knowledge of html. The user lays out what they want on the screen as they want it to appear on the web. Dreamweaver is an example of a WYSIWYG editor.
