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DEFINITION |
| 1.<!-- --> |
Enclosed text appears as a comment or note to yourself
in
your document and is not displayed to the viewer in the
browser; a space must follow the opening tag and precede
the
closing tag; closing tag is required. [NOTE: The Microsoft
Internet Explorer browser supports a <COMMENT> </COMMENT>
tag
pair but anything placed between these tags will appear
as
document text when viewed by non-Microsoft browsers] |
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| 2.<A> </A> |
An anchor tag; enclosed text (or an <IMG> tag) appears
as a
hypertext link; end tag required [TOP] |
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| 3. <ADDRESS> </ADDRESS> |
Encloses contact information for the author of the document;
appears in italics; end tag required [NOTE: You should
include contact information in your document but it is
not
required that this information be enclosed in <ADDRESS>
tags
unless you want to be "formal" about it]. [TOP] |
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| 4. ALIGN |
Specifies the alignment or justification of text in a
paragraph; acceptable values are LEFT (smooth left margin,
ragged right margin), RIGHT (smooth right margin, ragged
left
margin), CENTER (each line of paragraph text centered)
and
JUSTIFY (both left and right margins smooth). [TOP]
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| 5. ALINK |
Specifies a color for all hypertext links in the
entire document at the moment when they are being clicked;
use common color names or hexadecimal color codes preceded
by
a #; enclose values in "" |
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| 6. ALT |
Specifies text used as a description of the contents of
an image; enclose the text in ""; this text
can appear when a
viewer mouses over an image and can be used by automatic
reading software employed by blind persons surfing the
web. [TOP] |
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| 7. <AREA> |
Encloses shape and coordinate information used to define
active areas of an image map; no closing tag; either an
HREF=
or NOHREF must be specified for every <AREA> tag.
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| 8. <B> </B> |
Enclosed text appears in boldface type; end tag required
[NOTE: This tag is now deprecated in favor of the <STRONG>
</STRONG> tag pair]. [TOP] |
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| 9. BACKGROUND |
Specifies the URL of an image to use as the
background for a table; this is an Internet Explorer specific
attribute and will be ignored by other browsers. [TOP] |
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| 10. BGCOLOR |
Specifies either a common color name or the
hexadecimal color code preceded by a # for the background
color of an entire table; data value should be enclosed
in "". [TOP] |
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| 11. Background |
The background is like a canvas on top of which characters
and
graphics are placed. Some monitors allow you to control
the
color or shading of the background. Also referred to as
a
Background Tile. [TOP] |
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| 12. BAUD |
The "baud rate" of a modem
is how many bits it can send or
receive per second. Your modem uses this measurement to
tell you
what speed you are connected at or transferring. [TOP] |
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| 13. BBS |
Bulletin Board System. A computer that allowed users
to dial-up
and connect from remote computers and acted as a central
meeting
place to chat or play games. The Internet has largely
replaced
the BBS. BBSes were generally run from someone's home
PC that
had a few phone lines hooked up to it. [TOP] |
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| 14. BETA |
The second stage a software program
goes through before a final
is released. Software undergoes rigorous testing until
it is
ready to be released. [TOP] |
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| 15. BINARY |
A numeric system that represents all numbers using
only two
digits: 1 and 0. [TOP] |
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| 16. BIT |
The basic unit of information in
a binary numbering system. A
computer detects the difference between two states (high
current
and low current) and represents these two states as one
of two
numbers (1 or 0). [TOP] |
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| 17. Blog |
A blog is information that is instantly published
to a Web
site. Blog scripting allows someone to automatically
post
information to a Web site. The information first goes
to a
blogger Web site. Then the information is automatically
inserted
into a template tailored for your Web site.
Blog is short for weblog. A weblog
is a journal that is
frequently updated and intended for general public consumption.
Blogs generally represent the personality of the author
or the
Web site. [TOP] |
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| 18. Blogger |
Blogger, a coined word created by
Pyra Labs, is a service that
provides Web-based tools used by individuals to publish
to the
Web. It is now also a word generally used to refer to
someone
who blogs. [TOP] |
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| 19. BMP |
Bitmap. A proprietary Microsoft Windows image format.
This file
format cannot be used on a Web page. [TOP] |
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| 20. BANDWIDTH |
The range of frequencies a channel
can carry. The higher the
frequency, the higher the bandwidth and the greater the
capacity
of a channel. In Internet terms, higher bandwidth means
a higher
ability to transmit and receive data. [TOP] |
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| 21. BPS |
Bits per second. The amount of data that can be transmitted
over a digital line. [TOP] |
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| 22. BROWSER |
A program used to view, download,
upload, surf or
otherwise access documents (pages) on the World Wide Web.
Popular Web browsers include Netscape and Internet Explorer.
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| 23. BYTE |
A series of 8 bits, which represent a single
character. [TOP] |
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