Essential Web and Software Terminology Definitions

Essential Web and Software Terminology

Web Navigation and Structure

• External Hyperlink

  A hyperlink that opens a webpage located on a remote computer. External hyperlinks provide the links that tie the Web together and rely on HTML anchor tags.

• Back Button

  A basic control used across various technologies. In a web browser, a back button allows an end user to navigate to a previously viewed webpage. A back button is also a feature of smartphone software and other consumer-oriented technologies.

• Navigation Structure

  When using navigation requests, for each BSP application, determine the initial page, the navigation methods, and the target pages in a table with navigation paths.

• Refresh

  An act or function of updating the display on a screen.

Web Elements and Metrics

• Marquee

  A non-standard HTML element which causes text to scroll up, down, left, or right automatically.

• Page Banner

  A typically rectangular advertisement placed on a website either above, below, or on the sides of the website's main content, linked to the advertiser's own website.

• Hit Counter

  A computer software program that indicates the number of visitors, or "hits," a particular webpage has received. Once set up, these counters are incremented by one every time the webpage is accessed in a web browser.

User Interactions and Functions

• To Hover Over

  To remain suspended over someone or something (often referring to a mouse pointer over an element).

• To Highlight

  To indicate that text or other objects have been selected with a mouse or keyboard.

• To Bookmark

  To create a shortcut to a previously viewed website.

• To Download

  To copy data from one computer system to another, typically over the internet.

Software and Digital Content

• Browser

  A computer program with a graphical user interface for displaying HTML files, used to navigate the World Wide Web.

• Search Engine

  A program that searches for and identifies items in a database that correspond to keywords or characters specified by the user, used specifically for finding particular sites on the WWW (World Wide Web).

• Podcast

  A digital audio or video file or recording, usually part of a themed series, that can be downloaded from a website to a media player or computer.

• Audacity

  A free, open-source digital audio editor and recording computer software available for Windows, OS X, Linux, and other operating systems.

• Microsoft FrontPage

  A discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool from Microsoft for the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems.

Productivity and Social Media

• Mail Merge

  The automatic addition of names and addresses from a database to letters and envelopes in order to facilitate sending mail (especially advertising) to many addresses.

• Word Count

  The number of words in a document or passage of text.

• LinkedIn

  A business-oriented social networking service, mainly used for professional networking.

• Snapchat

  A mobile app that allows users to send and receive "self-destructing" photos and videos.