| understanding web terms Computer-related things | | | | website, you should save them as JPEGs. |
| tend to have a language all their own. While you | | | | Hardware. Hardware is computer equipment that |
| do not need to know all of it, there are many | | | | physically exists. It is the opposite of software. |
| confusing words and phrases that you are going | | | | Hosting. If you've got a website out there on the |
| to come across sooner or later. Bandwidth. | | | | Internet, then you'll be paying someone for |
| Bandwidth is the amount of data that your | | | | hosting. It is the service of making your site |
| website can send each second, as well as the | | | | available for people to see. |
| amount of data that the visitor to your website | | | | HTML. HyperText Markup Language. A kind of |
| can receive. If either one does not have enough | | | | code used to indicate how web pages should be |
| bandwidth, then the website will appear slowly. For | | | | displayed, using a system of small 'tags'. The 'b' |
| this reason, you should choose a host with plenty | | | | tag, for example, causes text to appear in bold, |
| of bandwidth, as well as testing that your site | | | | and the 'img' tag displays a picture. |
| doesn't take too long to download on slow | | | | Hyperlink. A hyperlink is when a piece of text on |
| connections. | | | | a website can be clicked to take you to another |
| Browser. A browser is the software (see below) | | | | site, or another page on the same site. For |
| that visitors to your site use to view it. The most | | | | example, if clicking your email address on your |
| popular browser is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, | | | | website allows someone to email you, then your |
| which comes with Windows. | | | | email address is a hyperlink. |
| Cookie. Cookies are data files that your site can | | | | Programming. This is when the computer is given |
| save on the computer of someone who visits | | | | instructions to tell it what to do, using one of |
| that site, to allow it to remember who they are if | | | | many 'programming languages'. Programming |
| they return. FTP. File Transfer Protocol. This is a | | | | languages for the web include PHP and Perl. |
| common method of uploading (see below) files to | | | | Server. The server is where your website is |
| your website. | | | | stored, and it is the server that people are |
| Javascript. A common language for writing 'scripts' | | | | connecting to when they visit the site. Note that |
| on websites, which are small programs that make | | | | server refers both to the hardware and software |
| the site more interactive. Another common cause | | | | of this system. |
| of problems for visitors. | | | | Software. Programs that run on the computer, or |
| JPEG. Joint Photographic Experts Group. This is the | | | | that make your website work. Microsoft Word is |
| name of the most popular format for pictures on | | | | software, for example, as is Apache (the most |
| the web, named after the group that came up | | | | popular web server software). Opposite of |
| with it. If you want to put pictures on your | | | | hardware. |