Glossary - Glossary - LEAR Web Design | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engine Marketing | SEO Consulting | PHP | CSS | CMS | SEO | SEM | CRM | LAMP | Linux | Apache | MySQL | South Florida | Silicon Valley

Glossary
Terms that are on use on this site.

All

You can always search for entries (regexp permitted).
Begins with Contains Exactly matches	Submit Term
All \| C \| H \| P \| R \| T \| W
There are 6 entries in the glossary.
Pages: 1
Term	Definition
Containers	Containers refer to the area enclosed by and tags where the commands take effect. Some tags, such as enclose the entire document, others enclose lists, and others can enclose a single world. One of the more common problems in writing HTML is when one forgets to add a stop tag and clse of the container, thus leaving the tag to effect the rest of the document. So try and keep track of each container that you create.

HTML	(Hyper Text Mark-up Language) While it is not an official computer language such as C++ or pascal, HTML is the way in which computers communicate across the world wide web. It consists of many tags that allow writers to mark-up text documents so that they can be viewed by others using web browsers.

Pixels	Pixels are a method of measurement used in the computer world. Your computer screen's resolution is measured in pixels, 832624, 640480, etc. They are the number of "dots, or pixels, that computer displays horizontally and vertically. This allows for a standard to be set, so that a 100*50 picture always comes up as the same relative size, but could vary in absolute size depending on the resolution of your monitor.

Relative and Absolute Links	Relative and absolute links are styles of links that one finds connecting a web page to other pages, files, etc. Relative links look like this /~ahetting/htmlprimer.html. They consist of telling the link where to find what it is looking for, but leave out the server that the page is attached to because the original page and the one being sought after are in the same directory(folder or server). The same link in absolute link format would look like this http:/serendip.brynmawr.edu/~ahetting/htmlprimer.html. It includes the complete web address of the sought after page. They accommplish the same goal, but each has it's advantages and disadvantages. If you move a folder with web pages with relative links to a new server, then nothing will happen and all the links will remain stable. But if you were to only move one of those pages, then it's links would be broken because the other pages would be in a differnt directory(folder or server). Absolute links have the opposite effect, if you move one file then it's links will be fine.

Tags	Tags are the commands that give HTML documents their functionality. They consist of commands placed within < and &gt. Some tags work by placing a start and stop tag at each end of the desired text, such as below Using both of these tags places the desired text in a container. But not all tags need to use a container, and thus don't need a stop tag. In the glossary below you will find a "" next to the tags that require a stop tag.

Web Browsers	Web browsers are the applications that allow one to view HTML documents from either your own computer or from any other computer connected to the internet.

All \| C \| H \| P \| R \| T \| W

LEAR Web Design | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engine Marketing | SEO Consulting | PHP | CSS | CMS | SEO | SEM | CRM | LAMP | Linux | Apache | MySQL | South Florida | Silicon Valley | New York