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a hypertext document
An electronic file containing elements that users can select, usually by clicking a mouse, to open other documents.
What is a Web server? What is a Web browser? Describe how they work together.
A computer on a network that stores a website and makes it available to clients. Users access the website by running a program called a web browser on their computers.
How do HTML documents differ from documents created with a word processor such as Word or WordPerfect?
HTML documents do not exactly specify the appearance of a document; rather they describe the purpose of various elements in the document and leave it to the Web browser to determine the final appearance. A word processor like Microsoft Word exactly specifies the appearance of each document element.
a deprecated feature
a feature that is being phased out by the W3C and might not be supported by future browsers.
What element do you use to mark the beginning and end of an HTML document?
the html element - <html> </html>
What code would you enter in your document to set the page title to "Technical Support"? Where would you enter this code?
<title>Technical Support</title>
Specify the code needed to add the comment "Page Updated on 4/15/2011" to an HTML file.
<!-- Page Updated on 4/15/2011 -->
What error was made in the following HTML code?:

<head>
<title>Customer Comments form
</head>
</title>
the title element was not properly nested within the head element.
block-level elements
elements that contain content that is viewed as a distinct section within the Web page, such as a paragraph or heading.
What is an inline element?
element that is part of the same block as it's surrounding content - for example, individual words or phrases within a paragraph. Also referred to as character formatting elements
Network
structure that links several points, called NODES, allowing for the sharing of information and services.
Node
device such as a computer, printer, or scanner, capable of sending and receiving data electronically over the network.
Host
Computer Node
Server
A computer node that provides information or a service.
Print Server
A computer node on the network that provides printing services.
File Server
A node on the network that provides storage space for saving & retrieving files.
Client
A computer or other device that requests services from a server.
Client-Server Network
Network design in which several clients access information provided by one or more servers.
LAN - Local Area Network
A network confined to a small geographic area, such as within a building or department.
WAN - Wide Area Network
A network that covers a greater area, such as several buildings or cities, the largest being the internet.
ARPANET
Origin of the internet, which started with two network nodes located at UCLA and Stanford connected by a single phone line.
Internet
The physical infrastructure, involving computers, cell phones, PDAs, MP3 players, gaming systems, and television stations connected by fiber-optic cables, satellites, phone lines, wireless access points, and other media, enabling communication & sharing information.
World Wide Web
The interface used on the internet making it accessible to the general public.
Hypertext
A method of organization in which information is presented in whatever order is requested by the user, rather than linearly.
Links
elements in a hypertext document that allow you to jump from one topic or document to another, usually by clicking a mouse button.
Web Page
Each document on the World Wide Web.
Web Server
Computers that make web pages available too any device connected to the Internet.
Web Browser
software which enables an end user to view a web page.
Text-based browsers
The earliest browsers, which were limited to displaying only text.
HTML
Hypertext Markup Language
Markup Language
Language that describes the content and structure of a document, but NOT how it will look.
Styles
formatting rules written in a separate language from HTML telling the browser how to render each element for particular devices.
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
First popular markup language, introduced in the 1980s. It is device & system independent, meaning it can be applied to almost any type of document stored in almost any format.
Extensions
Features added to HTML by web browsers.
World Wide Web Consortium - W3C
A group of web developers, programmers & authors that created a set of standards that all browser manufacturers were to follow. They have no enforcement power, but their recommendations are usually followed.
XHTML - Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
A stricter version of HTML, designed to confront some of the problems associated with the various competing versions of HTML and better integrate HTML with other markup languages like XML.
What is the current version of XHTML?
XHTML 1.1
XHTML 2.0
another version of XHTML still in the draft stage. NOT backward-compatible with earlier versions of HTML and XHTML.
HTML 5.0
a working draft of HTML which provides greater support for emerging online technology while still providing support for older browsers.
HTML Converter
A program that translates text written in another language into HTML.
HTML Editor
A program that helps you create an HTML file by inserting HTML codes for you as you work.
Element
distinct object in the document, like a paragraph, heading, or the page's title.
Tag
Core building block of HTML, which marks the presence of an element.
Two-sided tag
Any tag than contains content such as text or another element. Includes an opening & closing tag to mark the beginning & end of the content.
Root Element
An element which contains all of the elements in a document. For HTML, it is marked using the <html> tag
Head Element
One of the two main sections, it contains information about the document - for example, the document's title or a list of key-words to aid search engines to identify it.
Body Element
One of the two main sections, it contains all of the content that wiill appear on the web page.
White Space
Blank spaces, tabs, and line breaks.
What are the two generic page elements?
div and span
Presentational Attributes
Attributes that specifically describe how any element should be rendered. They are now deprecated in favor of styles, but are still in use on older sites.
Empty Element
An element that contains no content, such as <br /> and <hr />
Inline Image
an element that references the location of an image file, which is loaded by the browser as it renders the page.
what is the syntax for an inline image?
<img src="file" alt="text" />
Character Set
a collection of characters & symbols
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
The character set representing the alphabet of English characters.
Latin-1 or ISO 8859-1
A more extended character set which supports 255 characters and can be used by most languages that employ the Latin alphabet, including English, French, Spanish & Italian.
Unicode
The most extended character set which can be used for any of the world's languages, supporting 65,536 symbols.
UTF-8
The most commonly used character set on the web & is the default character set for most browsers. It is a compressed version of Unicode.
Character Encoding
To store a character set, browsers associate each symbol in a character set with a number.
Numeric Character Reference
The number given to a symbol in character encoding.
Character Entity Reference
A short memorable name to reference certain symbols, such as "copy" for the copyright symbol - &copy;