Web Terms Handout

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Web Terminology

BASIC TERMINOLOGY

Absolute Address—A file's complete pathname containing the communication protocol, hostname, pathname, and file name. Example: http://www.artic.edu/~yourID/images/picture.gif

Client/Server Model—After you type in a URL address, the client’s browser sends a request to the server. A connection to the server is opened. The server sends the document to the client and closes the connection.

Domain Name Server—A server that resolves traffic to the domain name, directing that traffic to the Web site’s IP address.

Domain Names—The Web site’s name (e.g., www.yahoo.com, www.cnn.com).

http—Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The language that clients and servers use to communicate with each other over the Web.

IP Address—Internet Protocol Address. The Web site’s actual address on the Web. Example: 201.156.147.35

Protocols—Languages and rules by which computers communicate.

Relative Address—A file's pathname relative to the document requesting the file. Example: images/picture.gif

URL—Uniform Resource Locator. The address used to access a document.

Web Server—A program running on a computer that is set-up to serve documents to other computers that request them.

BASIC SYNTAX OF HTML

<HTML><HEAD>

</HEAD><BODY>

</BODY></HTML>

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HEAD: general information about the file

BODY: information that will be displayed in the browser window

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