HTML ( Hypertext Markup Language ): The coding scheme used to format text for use on the World Wide Web.

HTTP ( Hypertext Transport Protocol ): The transmission standard used to send HTML documents across the World Wide Web.

Home Page: The introductory web page of your web Site, typically named "index.html".

Web Browser: Program used to view information on the World Wide Web (Netscape and Internet Explorer).

Web Page: A file written in HTML that can be properly interpreted by a web browser.

Web Site: A collection of web pages designed to offer complete information about a subject. A collection of web pages designed to offer complete information about a subject.

URL ( Uniform Resource Locator ): Uniform Resource Locator. A URL is used by Web browsers to locate a Web Page.

Hyperlink: A highlighted word or picture within a website that when clicked takes you to another place in the document or to another document altogether.

GIF ( Graphic Interchange Format ): A file format for storing images, commonly used on the web.

JPEG ( Joint Photographic Experts Group ): An compressed image file for still photographs that is commonly used on the web.

Java Applet: A program, ideally used with web pages, that executes on the
client computer to make a website interactive.

Domain Name: A Official name of a computer connected to the Internet. Domain names act as easy-to-remember addresses for product or company information.

Virtual Domain Name: A website address that appears on the Internet as a domain name, but is in actuality, hosted on another computer.