Web Terms Handout

Web Page Design Web Terminology

Web Terminology
BASIC TERMINOLOGY

• Absolute Address—A file's complete pathname containing the communication
protocol, hostname, pathname, and file name.
Example: http://www.artic.edu/~yourID/images/picture.gif

• Client/Server Model—After you type in a URL address, the client’s browser
sends a request to the server. A connection to the server is opened. The server
sends the document to the client and closes the connection.

• Domain Name Server—A server that resolves traffic to the domain name,
directing that traffic to the Web site’s IP address.

• Domain Names—The Web site’s name (e.g., www.yahoo.com, www.cnn.com).

• http—Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The language that clients and servers use to
communicate with each other over the Web.

• IP Address—Internet Protocol Address. The Web site’s actual address on the
Web. Example: 201.156.147.35

• Protocols—Languages and rules by which computers communicate.

• Relative Address—A file's pathname relative to the document requesting the file.
Example: images/picture.gif

• URL—Uniform Resource Locator. The address used to access a document.

• Web Server—A program running on a computer that is set-up to serve
documents to other computers that request them.

BASIC SYNTAX OF HTML

<HTML>
<HEAD> HEAD: general information about the file

</HEAD>
<BODY>
BODY: information that will be displayed in the browser window

</BODY>
</HTML>

Web resource for tag definition
• http://webmonkey.wired.com/webmonkey/reference/html_cheatsheet/

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