Hyper Text Mark-up Language (HTML): is used is the encoding scheme used to create and format a web document. A user need not be an expert programmer to make use of HTML for creating hypertext documents that can be put on the internet.

Post Office Protocol (POP-3): is used computing, and is an application-layer Internet standard protocol used by local e-mail clients to retrieve e-mail from a remote server over a TCP/IP connection.

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP): is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. Its use for retrieving inter-linked resources, called hypertext documents.

File Transverse Protocol (FTP): is a standard network protocol used to exchange and manipulate files over a TCP/IP based network, such as the Internet. FTP is built on client-server architecture and utilizes separate control and data connections between the client and server applications.

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP): is an Internet standard for electronic mail (e-mail) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.

Hyperlink  (or link): is a reference to a document that the reader can directly follow. The reference points to another document or to a specific element within a document. Hypertext is text with hyperlinks. Such text is usually viewed with a computer. A software system for viewing and creating hypertext is a hypertext system.

Applet:  any small application that performs one specific task; sometimes running within the context a larger program perhaps as a plug-in However, the term typically also refers to programs written in the Java programming language which are included in an HTML page.

Active Servers Pages (ASP): is a web-scripting interface by Microsoft.

.jpeg (named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group): is a commonly used method of compression for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality.

.gif  - (stands for: Graphic Interchange Format): is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability. The format supports up to 8 bits per pixel, allowing a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors chosen from the 24-bit RGB color space. It also supports animations and allows a separate palette of 256 colors for each frame.

.bmp – (stands for BMP File Format, and often called bitmap or DIB File Format): is an image file format used to store bitmap digital images, especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems.

 .png – (stands for Portable Network Graphics): is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS): is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation semantics (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written.

Dynamic Web pages: is a hypertext document rendered to a World Wide Web user presenting content that has been customized or actualized for each individual viewing or rendition or that continually updates information as the page is displayed to the user.

 Static Web pages: static web page is a web page that always comprises the same information in response to all download requests from all users. Contrast with Dynamic web page.

Keywords: words that are used to reveal the internal structure of an author’s reasoning. While they are used primarily for rhetoric, they are also used in a strictly grammatical sense for structural composition, reasoning, and comprehension. Indeed, they are an essential part of any language.

Meta-tags: are HTML or XHTML elements used to provide structured metadata about a Web page. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document. Meta elements can be used to specify page description, keywords and any other metadata not provided through the other head elements and attributes.

.mp3 (stands for MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3: is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio compression for the transfer and playback of music on digital audio players.

Web server: is a computer program that delivers (serves) content, such as this web page, using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The term web server can also refer to the computer or virtual machine running the program.

Web Browser: is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content.

What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWIG): The term is used in computing to describe a system in which content displayed during editing appears very similar to the final output, which might be a printed document, web page, slide presentation or even the lighting for a theatrical event.

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML): is a family of XML markup languages that mirror or extend versions of the widely used Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), the language in which web pages are written.

Extensible Markup Language (XML):  is a set of rules for encoding documents electronically. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C and several other related specifications; all are fee-free open standards

 

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