The physical components of a PC including Peripherals
The Hard Disk is where the
data is stored within the PC. Hard Disks have the capacity to contain several
megabytes or even a few
gigabytes of data.
Abbreviation for
Hard Disk.
Cycles per second
This occurs when a
web page is accessed by a user or a
program accesses the page. A hit was registered on this particularly web page (the term "Hit" in the Glossary) when you requested to look at the information contained within it.
A introductory
page within the
web site that provides a navigational system like a table of contents to view other pages within the site. It is the first page that will appear when viewing a web site. It is also know as the
index page with the
HTML programming community.
A horizontal line created by the
HTML tag used to separate items in an HTML document. Horizontal rules are displayed by the
browser, and as such, an HTML author only has limited control over their appearance.
A Computer that provides a particular service to a user such as storing a
web
site. These
servers are typically owned, operated, maintained by a company or organization. If you use a host service, also called local
internet service provider, it is common that your Web site address will have the name of your server within the address itself.
A computer's "internet name". For instance, you are reading a
file from a computer whose hostname is "gsu.edu"
Exact positions on the screen that will result in a particular event occurring should the
mouse be clicked - an example may be clicking on a particular city shown on a map that results in information about that city being displayed.
Hot
Java is a
Web Browser which can display "executable content" written in the Java
Programming Language
Hyperlink Reference
Hypertext Markup Language
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
A
network term used for any device to which several others are attached, providing a common point of connection to all other devices in the network.
An
icon, graphic, or word in a
Web page file that, when clicked with the
mouse, will automatically open another file for viewing. Hyperlinks, when clicked on, can dispaly a new graphic, start an animation sequence, go to a different page in a Web
site, or to an entirely new Web site.
HTML code. Specifies a
URL as the linked resource.
Basically,
Hypertext that also contains
Multimedia components.
Text that contains
links which can be clicked with a
mouse. When the user "clicks" the link they are taken to another document or a different section of the current document. This Glossary is a good example of Hypertext.
The language of the World Wide
Web. Everything you see on a web
page is
HTML and interpreted by Web
Browsers
Method of connecting to the
Internet World-Wide
Web
Abbreviation for
Hertz