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1. absolute URL | bio | browser | content | CSS | <div> | Domain Name | <font> | FTP | homepage | HTML | index.html | Internet | link | Network Neutrailty | meta tag | URL |W3C | WWW

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absolute URL -

An absolute URL specifies the exact location of a file/directory on the internet. It also follows that each absolute URL is unique, which means that if two URLs are identical, they point to the same file. example: http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/

bio-

Hello Everyone, I'm in Los Angeles and have taken several DCA classes on line or in person. I'm taking this class to sharpen my web skills. I've read a few beginner's books on html and css (years ago). Eventually, I'd love to post a portfolio website. A website that I visit most:you tube. Nice to meet you. Carrie Ardoin

browser -

A software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web.

content -

There are, essentially, two types of Web content:

Text
Multimedia

Text as Web Content

Text is easy, it's the written content that's on the page, both inside images and in text blocks. The best textual Web content is that text that has been written for the Web, rather than simply copy-and-pasted from a print source. Textual Web content will also have good internal links to help readers get more information and aid in scanning the text. Finally, Web text will be written for a global audience as even local pages can be read by anyone around the world.
Multimedia Web Content

The other type of Web content is multimedia. To put it simply, multimedia is any content that isn't text, but this includes a lot of different things:

Animation
Images
Sound
Video

CSS -

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a simple mechanism for adding style (e.g., fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents.

<div>-

The <div> tag defines a division or a section in an HTML document.

The <div> tag is often used to group block-elements to format them with styles.

Domain Name -

An identification label that defines a realm of administrative autonomy, authority, or control in the Internet. Domain names are also hostnames that identify Internet Protocol (IP) resources such as web sites. Domain names are formed by the rules and procedures of the Domain Name System (DNS).
Domain names are used in various networking contexts and application-specific naming and addressing purposes.
Domain names are also used as simple identification labels to indicate ownership or control of a resource

<font> -

A tag that specifies the font face, font size, and font color of text.

FTP -

Short for File Transfer Protocol, the protocol for exchanging files over the Internet. FTP works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web pages from a server to a user's browser and SMTP for transferring electronic mail across the Internet in that, like these technologies, FTP uses the Internet's TCP/IP protocols to enable data transfer.

FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server).

homepage -

It most often refers to the initial or main web page of a web site and automatically loads first when a web browser starts.

HTML -

HTML is a language for describing web pages.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language
HTML is not a programming language, it is a markup language
A markup language is a set of markup tags
HTML uses markup tags to describe web pages

index.html -

When an HTTP client (generally a Web browser) requests a URL that points to a directory structure instead of an actual Web page within the directory, the Web server will generally serve a general page, which is often referred to as a main or "index" page.

index.html is the traditional filename for such a page, but most modern HTTP servers offer a configurable list of filenames that the server can use as an index.

Internet -

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

link -

A link is a connection from one Web resource to another. Although a simple concept, the link has been one of the primary forces driving the success of the Web.

A link has two ends -- called anchors -- and a direction. The link starts at the "source" anchor and points to the "destination" anchor, which may be any Web resource (e.g., an image, a video clip, a sound bite, a program, an HTML document, an element within an HTML document, etc.).

meta tag -

Metadata is information about data.

The <meta> tag provides metadata about the HTML document. Metadata will not be displayed on the page, but will be machine parsable.

Meta elements are typically used to specify page description, keywords, author of the document, last modified, and other metadata.

The <meta> tag always goes inside the head element.

The metadata can be used by browsers (how to display content or reload page), search engines (keywords), or other web services.

neutrality network-

Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle which advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the internet. Specifically on content, sites, platforms, the kinds of equipment that may be attached, and the modes of communication.

URL -

A URL is an address for a resource on the WWW (World Wide Web). It might be a file or other resource.

W3C -

The W3C is The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is an international community where Member organizations, a full-time staff, and the public work together to develop Web standards. Led by Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and CEO Jeffrey Jaffe, W3C's mission is to lead the Web to its full potential.

WWW -

The World Wide Web, abbreviated as WWW or W3 and commonly known as the Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them via hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.