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These two characters < and > appear on your keyboard as [shift key] + comma and [shift key] + period. They are used to set the instructions (HTML tags) off from the rest of the text on the page. All HTML tags are surrounded by these two symbols.Browser
Short for Web browser, a Browser is a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer.FTP
Stands for "File Transfer Protocol," one of the ways to send files from one computer to another on the Internet so that they can be viewed by others on the web.Home Page
The first page that is seen when you visit a URL or the first/main page of your web pages.HTML
Stands for Hyper Text Markup Language. It is the basic "language" that web pages are written in.HTTP
Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, it defines how messages are formatted and transmitted on the World Wide Web, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands.Hyperlinks/Links
These are the HTML coded locations, usually set apart by a different text color and underlining, that lead you to other places on the web (to another URL for example) or to another spot within a particular page.Internet
A global network connecting millions of computers. More than 100 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news and opinions.Server
The server is the computer on which your web pages will reside.Standards of HTML
The current proposed standards are HTML 4.0 (4th version), but not all features act the same with Netscape browsers as they do with Internet Explorer.Tags
These are the embedded words and/or symbols that enable us to turn ordinary text into HTML. <HTML> and </HTML>, for example are the opening and closing tags that indicate a document is written in HTML. The slash always indicates the end of some instruction.URL
Stands for "Uniform Resource Locator." The "URL" is the "address" of a web page. For example, the "URL" or address of the my home page is http://pdg.lbl.gov/~aerzber/.World Wide Web (WWW or the "web")
A system of Internet servers that support documents formatted in a script called HTML that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web.
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Last Update: January 6, 2003