Anchor

An anchor is an HTML tag that marks a specific point in an HTML document as either the source or destination of a hypertext links. This allows you to create links from one hypertext document to another, as well as to different sections within the same document.

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Button

A button is a small outlined area in a dialog box that you can click to select an option or command.

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Directories

A directory is a system that your computer uses to organize files on the basis of specific information. Directories can be organized hierarchically so that files appear in a number of different ways, such as the order in which they were created, alphabetically, by name or by type, and other ways.

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Frames

A feature supported by most modern web browsers than enables the web author to divide the web browser display area into two or more sections (frames). The contents of each frame are taken from a different web page documents. Frames provide great flexibility in designing web pages, but many designers avoid them because they are supported unevenly by current web browsers. An example of frames is this website. This website is done in 3 frames.

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GIF

Graphics Interchange Format -- A graphics file format that uses a compression scheme originally developed by CompuServe. Since, GIF files are compressed, the file can be quickly and easily transmitted over a network.

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Hexadecimal

Refers to the base-16 number system, which consists of 16 unique symbols: the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F. For example, the decimal number 15 is represented as F in the hexadecimal numbering system

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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language -- A computer language used to create hypertext documents. HTML uses a finite list of tags that describe the general structure of various kinds of documents linked together on the World Wide Web.

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HTML Tags

Tags are descriptive formatting codes used in HTML. Documents that instruct a web browers how to display text and graphics on a web page. For example, to make text bold, the tag < b > is used at the beginning and end of the text.

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Hypertext Links

The use of hypertext is a way of presenting information in which text, sounds, images, and actions are linked together in a way that allows you to jump around between them in whatever order you choose. This is a hypertext link.

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Index.html

Always the main page of the web site. The default starting point of a folder. If you click index.html, it will take you to the index of this webpage. Press BACK to get back to this page.

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JPEG

Joint Photographic Experts Group -- An industry committee that developed a compression standard for still images. JPEG refers to the graphics file format that uses this compression standard. You will find JPEG files on the World Wide Web with the file extension .JPG or .JPEG

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Navigation Tags

Hyptertext links that help you navigate the site easier. Most common ones are back, forward, and home.

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Postage Stamp Images

A thumbnail size or miniature display of a picture to be viewed.

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Tables

An orderly arrangement of data, especially one in which the data are arranged in columns and rows in an essentially rectangular form. Here is an example of tables that you can see.

You	are
viewing	tables!

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TIFF

Tagged Image File Format -- One of the most widely supported file formats for storing bit-mapped images on personal computers.

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Text Editor

An application that can be used to create, view and edit text files.

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URL

Uniform Resource Locator -- A standard way of specifying the location of an object, typically a web page, on the internet. URLs are the form of address used on the World-Wide Web. This is the URL for Google: http://www.google.com.

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Web Browser

A software application used to locate and display web pages.

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