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World wide web terminology

 

• CSS
  Cascading Style Sheets - is a language used to describe the the look and formatting of an HTML document

• Directory
  is a level beneath the root level of a website, e.g. yourdomain.com/directory

• DNS
  Domain Name Server - is an Internet system to translate names (domain names) into IP addresses

• Domain Name
  is the name of a website in the Internet, e.g. YourName.com

• FTP
  File Transfer Protocol - for the transfer of files between computers, or computer and web server

• Hosting Service
  is a service that runs Internet serves, which host the spaces for the domain names

• HTML
  Hyper-Text Markup Language - the traditional Internet website document format

• HTTP The abbreviation for
  Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol - is how browsers transfer hypertext documents from the server to the computer monitor

• Hypertext
  is a text with an overlayed link to another page

• IP Address
  Internet Protocol Address - is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes.

• Registrar or Domain Name Registrar
  is the official keeper of the domain name records, accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or by a national country code top-level domain (ccTLD) authority

• Server
  is a computer system that hosts and delivers information for client computers, e.g. a website is hosted on a server which delivers that website to millions of individual computers through the Internet

• SSL
  Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol in encrypted form for network communications like the Internet or VoIP (voice-over-IP). All personal data and sensitive information should be sent via encrypted web pages starting with https instead of http.

• Subdomain
  is a domain that is part of a larger domain, e.g. subdomain.domain.com where domain.com is the main domain with the subdomain, divided by a dot

• TLS
  Transport Layer Security is the follower of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)

• URL
  Uniform Resource Locator - the address system used in the World Wide Web

• Web Browser
  is the software that allows a user to access and view HTML documents

• Web Page
  is a single HTML document within a website

• Web Site
  (or website) is the entire collection of web pages under one domain name

• WYSIWYG
  What You See Is What You Get - used for graphical editors where you can see immediately the effects of the changes done

• WWW
  World Wide Web