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Here are some additional terms and jargon useful to the workshops:
| The Internet: many computers hooked together looking at each other's public files. | Browser: a program through which you view pages on the Web. Netscape Navigator is one. |
| HTML: hypertext markup language
(the
programming language we use). |
URL: uniform resource locator (a.k.a. web/net address). |
| Login name: your first and middle initials
and your last name up to 8 letters total -- mine is jhmarton. |
Unix prompt: mine looks like
jhmarton@ascc facstaff/econ/jhmarton/public_html>. |
| Index.html: the page in your account that
the browser will always go to. |
Your account: a directory on the artsci system with your name on it. You get your email there and build your web pages from the same place. |
| Pine: the most common email program on campus. | Pico: a program similar to Pine, good for editing web pages. |
| Web Page: a file that people everywhere
can look at via the Internet/Web. |
Web Site: a bunch of web pages contained in the same account, usually related in content. |
| Search Engine: a website where you type in keywords and it finds sites relating to them. Alta Vista at http://altavista.digital.com/ is one. | Directory: a website that is a catalog of
websites, organized by categories. Yahoo at http://www.yahoo.com/ is one. |
| FTP: File Transfer Protocol -- how you get files from one place to another on a PC. | Fetch: how you get files from one place to
another on a Mac. |
| TAGS: particular html commands; they almost always have a beginning and an end, like the Heading 1 tag: <h1> and </h1>. | Brackets: Tags are enclosed within
brackets <tag>. |
| Right click: "click with the right-hand
mouse button". |
Mac users don't right click: they click and hold. |