The Complete HTML Teacher

ASP ~ Active Server Pages. Attributes ~ Special code words used inside an HTML tag to control exactly what the tag does. CGI ~ Common Gateway Interface. DHTML ~ Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language. Directory ~ File folder. Forms ~ See HTML Forms below. Frame ~ A rectangular region within the browser window that displays a Web page, alongside other pages in other frames. FTP ~ File Transfer Protocol is the standard that your file transfer software must adhere to when sending files to a web server. The server then sends those files out to anyone who asks for them using Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http). HTML ~ Hypertext Markup Language. HTML Form ~ part of a web page that includes areas where readers can enter information to be sent back to you. HTML Tag ~ A coded command used to indicate how part of a web page should be displayed. Hyperlinks ~ Text which when clicked on, takes you to another page, or another part of the same page. Hypertext ~ Text stored in electronic form with cross-reference links between pages. Image Compression ~ The mathematical manipulation that images are put through to squeeze out repetitive patterns. JAVA ~ A programming language. Ordered Lists ~ Indented lists that have numbers or letters in front of each of them. PERL ~ Practical Extraction and Report Language. SGML ~ Standard Generalized Markup Language. Table ~ An orderly arrangement of text and/or graphics into vertical columns and horizontal rows. Tag ~ See HTML Tag. Unordered Lists ~ Indented lists with a special bullet symbol in front of each item. VRML ~ Virtual Reality Modeling Language. Web Browser ~ a computer program that interprets HTML commands to collect, arrange, and display the parts of a web page. XML ~ Extensible Markup Language. XSL ~ Extensible Stylesheet Language. Contents