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absolute URL -
An absolute URL points directly to a file and specifies its exact location. The absolute URL will contain the full path of your website, including the domain and any applicable directories, as well as the file name.
Example: http://www.conniekwu.tripod.com/links.html
browser -
A browser is an application used to display information on the Internet. The browser uses the Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to access HTML pages.
content -
The text, images, font color, style, formatting, and any other information found on a webpage.
CSS -
CSS, or Cascading Style Sheets, define the look of a page or multiple pages. CSS properties define aesthetic attributes like color, font style and size, margins, borders, backgrounds, etc. CSS allows a clean separation of content and presentation.
<div> -
The <div> tag is an HTML tag that defines a division or a section in an HTML document. The tag is often used to group block-elements to format them with styles.
Domain Name -
The domain name is associated with one or more IP addresses, and it is used in URLs to identify a particular Web page.
FTP -
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, and it is used for exchanging files over the Internet. FTP works in the same way as HTTP for transferring Web pages from a server to a user's browser and SMTP for transferring electronic mail across the Internet in that, like these technologies, FTP uses the Internet's TCP/IP protocols to enable data transfer. FTP is most commonly used to download a file from a server using the Internet or to upload a file to a server (e.g., uploading a Web page file to a server).
<font> -
The <font> tag is an HTML tag that specifies the font face, font size, and font color of text.
homepage -
The main or first page of a website, typically hyperlinked to other pages within the website.
HTML -
HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. HTML is the predominant language used for web pages.
index.html -
The index.html page is traditionally the main page of a website, and therefore it's the page a web browser will access when you enter the root URL of a website into the web browser.
Internet -
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.
link -
A link (or hyperlink) is a reference to another location or another document.
meta tag -
Meta tags are HTML elements that provide structured metadata about a webpage. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document.
network neutrality -
Meta tags are HTML elements that provide structured metadata about a webpage. Such elements must be placed as tags in the head section of an HTML or XHTML document.
Tim Berners-Lee -
Timothy John Berners-Lee is a British engineer and computer scientist who is widely credited with inventing the World Wide Web. Read Tim Berners-Lee's bio for more information.
URL -
The URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, helps identify documents over the World Wide Web.
W3C -
Tim Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). the main international standards organization for the Internet.
WWW -
WWW, or the World Wide Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet.