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A: drive
On a PC, usually the letter representing
your computer's 3.5 floppy disk drive.
Above the fold
The content on a Web page that is visible
without scrolling. The content you see when you have to scroll down
is referred to as below the fold. The area above the fold is considered
the most desirable real estate on a Web page.
ActiveX
A Java-like Microsoft language that permits
web-originated programs to be run from the Microsoft Internet Explorer
browser.
Address Bar
Or 'Location Field.' The white horizontal
box in your Web browser window where the URL
of the current Web site is shown and where you can type in another
URL.
Typing 'http://www.adeptmultimedia.com'
in the Address Bar will get you to the Adept Multimediae home page.
Adept
Well skilled; completely versed; thoroughly
proficient [syn: expert, good, practiced, proficient, skillful].
Acrobat
Acrobat is part of a set of applications
developed by Adobe to create and view PDF files. Acrobat is used
to create the PDF files, and the freeware Acrobat Reader is used
to read the PDF files.
ADN
Advanced Digital Network - Usually refers to a 56Kbps leased-line.
ADSL
See: DSL
AIFF
Audio Interchange File Format
- This audio file format was developed for storing high-quality
sampled audio and musical instrument information, played by a variety
of downloadable software on both the PC and the Mac
Aliasing
Aliasing occurs when a computer
monitor, printer, or graphics file does not have a high enough resolution
to represent a graphic image or text. An aliased image is often
said to have jagged edges.
Alignment
The positioning of a body of text. Text
can be positioned to the left, right, or "center" of a
page. For the best, consistent alignment, web graphic designers
use tables and embedded tables.
ALT-attribute
Part of the image source tag in HTML.
An experienced web designer will always include text in all of your
image sources for two reasons: (1) if any of your visitors choose
not to view graphic images on your web pages, the alternative text
will be shown; and (2) if your visitors use Internet Explorer as
their browser and they leave the mouse over any graphic image, they
will view the text in your ALT-attribute.
Animated GIF
A GIF graphic file, which consists of
two or more images shown in a timed sequence to give the effect
of motion.
Animation
The addition of movement to a
web page. This can be accomplished by using Java, Shockwave, Flash,
animated GIFs, and other multimedia techniques.
Anonymous FTP
See:
FTP
Anti-Aliasing
Smoothing or blending the transition of pixels in an image. Anti-aliasing
the edges on a graphic image makes the edges appear smooth, not
jagged.
Applet
A small Java program that can be embedded in an HTML page. Applets
differ from full-fledged Java applications in that they are not
allowed to access certain resources on the local computer, such
as files and serial devices (modems, printers, etc.), and are prohibited
from communicating with most other computers across a network. An
applet can only make an Internet connection to the computer from
which the applet was sent. See also HTML
and Java.
Archie
A system that automatically gathers, indexes, and serves archived
information on the Internet.The initial implementation of Archie
provided an indexed directory of filenames from anonymous FTP archives
on the Internet. Later versions provide other collections of information.
ARPANet
Advanced Research Projects Agency Network - The precursor to the
Internet. Developed in the late 60’s and early 70’s by
the US Department of Defense as an experiment in wide-area-networking
that would survive a nuclear war. See also Internet.
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange - This is the
de facto world-wide standard for the code numbers used by computers
to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers,
punctuation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which
can be represented by a 7 digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111.
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Backbone
A high-speed network for internetworking computer networks. Usually
Internet Service Providers are located near major backbones and
branch their services off from that point.
Background
An attribute of the Body tag for specifying to a browser an image
to be tiled behind all other document elements. This attribute's
value is the URL of the graphic that will be tiled as the background
of the page. The user will not see this background for non-compliant
browsers, if image loading is turned off, or if the user has overridden
the background images in their preferences.
Bandwidth
A measurement of a network's transmission speed, how much data a
network can transfer in a given amount of time.
Banner
A poular type of advertising found on the WWW consisting of a a
graphic (usually banner shaped which acts as link to the advertiser's
home page or other informational site.
Baud rate
The number of transitions per second made by a modem, see bps.
Bevel
Adding a beveled effect to a graphic image gives the image a raised
appearance by applying highlight colors and shadow colors to the
inside and outside edges.
Binary
Computers store information in the form of on and off electrical
impulses, which correspond to the binary (base 2) digits, 0 and
1. Files can be transferred over the Internet in either binary or
ASCII (text) format. A binary file is one that contains any non-printable
characters, such as compiled programs, graphics files, word-processing
and spreadsheet files, audio files, and so on. See also File Transfer
Protocol.
Bit
ABinary digit. A bit is the primary unit of digital data. Written
in binary language as a "1" or a "0". There
are eight bits in a byte. There are eight its in one ASCII character.
See also kilobit, megabit.
Bit Depth - Pixel Depth
The bits per pixel used to represent color. The more bits per pixel,
the more colors.
Bitmap Image
A graphic image stored as a specific arrangement of screen dots,
or pixels. Web graphics are bitmap images. A graphic which is defined
by specifying the colors of dots or pixels which make up the picture.
Also known as raster graphics. Common types of bitmap graphics are
GIF, JPEG, Photoshop, PCX, TIFF, Macintosh Paint, Microsoft Paint,
BMP, PNG, FAX formats, and TGA.
Bitnet
An education and research network that makes up part of the Internet,
mainly used for email & listservs.
Bits per second (BPS)
Measurement of the data transmission for a modem or network.
Bookmark
The process of saving a URL in your Web browser. Allows the user
to return to a particular site or entry by making a record of it.
Browse - To Browse
To navigate the World Wide Web. [syn: cruise, surf].
Browser
See Web
Browser.
Bulletin board
system (BBS)
A service dedicated to a specific topic where users post messages
that are read by others. It is a computer or computers that offer
dial-in communication which offers users the ability to send e-mail,
use news-groups, and sometimes access the Internet.
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