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Absolute Link: Allows you to jump from one Web site to another, and they contain the full address of the Web site.
Example: http://www.cofc.edu

Directory: A storage unit used to organize files on a computer. A directory can contain files, as well as other directories. - a.k.a. "Folder"

GIF: An image format used for any image with a color palette of 256 colors or less, such as logos or simple drawings. - a.k.a. Graphics Interchange Format

HTML: The plain text language used to create Web pages. Web browsers read the HTML for instructions on how to format the content of a Web page. - a.k.a. "Hypertext Markup Language"

JPEG: An image format used for any image with shading or a lot of color variation, such as photographs. - a.k.a. Joint Photographic Experts Group

Named Anchor: Allow you to jump around inside fo the same Web page. An example of this is the alphabet at the top of the page. Clicking on one of the linked letters will jump you down to the appropriate section on this page.

Path: The specific location of a file, starting with the root directory and ending with a specific file.

Relative Link: Allows you to jump around inside of the same Web site, and the address to the other page is written out as it relates to the page on which you are creating the link.
Example: To link from this page to the images page, the link would be just images.html because this page and the images page are in the same folder. For more specific examples, please see the Links Reference page.

Resizing: Resizing an image will make it larger or smaller than its original size. Keeping the image inproportion means that when you resize the image, you are keeping the height and width ratio the same as the original image.

Root Directory: The directory at the very top, that contains all of the other files and directories. - a.k.a. "Top-Level Directory"

Tag: HTML elements that tell Web browsers how a Web page is to be formatted.

Upload: To copy files from a computer to a Web server.

URL: The location of a particular Web page on a particular Web server, or the "address" of where the Web pages resides. There are four basic parts of an URL: the Protocol, the Domain Name, the Path, and the File Name. The Protocol determines how the Web page will be sent over the Internet to a computer. The Domain Name is the specific name of the Web server. The Path is the folder, or folders, in which a Web page is stored. (The Path may or may not be in the URL, depending on where the Web page is stored.) The File Name is the name of the particular Web page, or HTML document.

Protocol	Domain Name	Path	File Name
http://	www.citadel.edu	/computing/training/	index.html

Web Browser: Special software installed on a computer that allows people to view Web sites on the World Wide Web. The two most popular browsers are Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer.

Web Page: An electronic document on the World Wide Web. There are three basic parts to a Web page: the address, the title, and the content. Web pages are created using HTML. A group of related Web pages is a Web site.

Web Server: A computer dedicated to storing Web sites. It has a similar file structure of folders and files to regular computers. A Web server sends and receives information to other computers, or clients, via the Internet.