World wide web terminology
- CSS
Cascading Style Sheets - is a language used to describe the the look and formatting of an HTML document
- Directory
is a level beneath the root level of a website, e.g. yourdomain.com/directory
- DNS
Domain Name Server - is an Internet system to translate names (domain names) into IP addresses
- Domain Name
is the name of a website in the Internet, e.g. YourName.com
- FTP
File Transfer Protocol - for the transfer of files between computers, or computer and web server
- Hosting Service
is a service that runs Internet serves, which host the spaces for the domain names
- HTML
Hyper-Text Markup Language - the traditional Internet website document format
- HTTP The abbreviation for
Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol - is how browsers transfer hypertext documents from the server to the computer monitor
- Hypertext
is a text with an overlayed link to another page
- IP Address
Internet Protocol Address - is a numerical label that is assigned to devices participating in a computer network utilizing the Internet Protocol for communication between its nodes.
- Registrar or Domain Name Registrar
is the official keeper of the domain name records, accredited by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or by a national country code top-level domain (ccTLD) authority
- Server
is a computer system that hosts and delivers information for client computers, e.g. a website is hosted on a server which delivers that website to millions of individual computers through the Internet
- SSL
Secure Sockets Layer, is a protocol in encrypted form for network communications like the Internet or VoIP (voice-over-IP). All personal data and sensitive information should be sent via encrypted web pages starting with https instead of http.
- Subdomain
is a domain that is part of a larger domain, e.g. subdomain.domain.com where domain.com is the main domain with the subdomain, divided by a dot
- TLS
Transport Layer Security is the follower of the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
- URL
Uniform Resource Locator - the address system used in the World Wide Web
- Web Browser
is the software that allows a user to access and view HTML documents
- Web Page
is a single HTML document within a website
- Web Site
(or website) is the entire collection of web pages under one domain name
- WYSIWYG
What You See Is What You Get - used for graphical editors where you can see immediately the effects of the changes done
- WWW
World Wide Web