March 2008

Internet terminology

• Banners: An advertisement on a Web page that links to an advertiser’s Web site.
• Blog: An electronic journal.
• Counters: a tool that keeps track of the number of visitors to your site.
• Domain Name: The unique name that identifies your site.
• E-mail (Electronic Mail): Messages transferred via computer.
• E-Zine: An online magazine.
• Home page: The first page of your Web site.
• HTML (HyperText Markup Language): The language used to create Web pages.
• http: (HyperText Transfer Protocol): Defines how messages are formatted and transmitted across the Internet.
• Hyperlink: The text or image on a Web site that can be “clicked on” with a mouse to take you to another Web site or a different area of the same Web page.
• Internet: A system of networks connected using the TCP/IP protocols.
• ISP (Internet Service Provider): A company that provides high-speed or dial-up access to the Internet.
• Maillist: A system designed to facilitate online discussions. People send e-mail '
  to one address and that message is copied and sent to all of the subscribers to the mail list.
• Meta Tag: A specific kind of HTML tag that contains information not normally displayed to the viewer. Meta tags are mainly used to help search engines appropriately categorize a page.
• Search Engine: An information retrieval system designed to help find information stored on a computer system or the WWW.
• TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol): A group of protocols that specify how computers communicate over the Internet. All computers on the Internet need TCP/IP software.
• URL (Uniform Resource Locator): The Web site’s address (e.g., www.sohnen-moe.com).
• www (World Wide Web): All the resources and Web servers on the Internet.
• Web browser: A program that is used to visit Web pages.
• Web host: Provides the online “space” and resources to operate your Web site.
• Web site: A collection of Web pages.