Over the summer, your children learned about and created
amazing websites with WiredWoods. When they came home,
you may have thought they were speaking a different
language! Here is an explanation of some of the terms
that they learned so that you can look like a hotshot
website developer in front of your children and show
them that you are in the know.
The Internet, the Net: The Internet is a network
of computers linked together all over the world.
Originally
conceived in the 1960’s, it started as a tool
to link research centers together via a computer
network The computers communicate to each other using
HTTP.
No one owns the Internet.
World Wide Web, WWW, the Web: Using HTTP, the World
Wide Web is used to view single documents on the Internet
as a large collection of linked web pages.
Web Browser, Browser: Applications like Netscape or
Internet Explorer request web pages from a server and
allow the documents to be viewed in a particular format
or language (most commonly HTML).
HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol: HTTP is a set of
rules that are used to retrieve and view web pages
on the Web.
HTML, HyperText Markup Language: HTML is the language
used to write and program web pages.
Web Page: A web page is one document written in HTML.
Web Site: A web site is many Web pages linked together.
WYSIWYG: (Sounds like Whiz-E-Wig) This acronym stands
for “What you see is what you get.” WYSIWYG
is a Web page editor. Two examples of editors are Adobe
GoLive and Dreamweaver. They allow you to make web
pages without having to write the HTML code.
Server: A server is the computer that stores all of
the files. All other computers are connected to it.
Graphic: A graphic is any picture (photograph, drawing,
scanned picture, etc.) used in a web page. They are
typically saved in a .jpeg or .gif format.
Hyperlink: A hyperlink is a way to link one web page
to another web page on the Internet. By clicking on
the hyperlink, you can go from one page to the next.
URL, Uniform Resource Locators: URL’s are
unique addresses that specify the location of each
web page.
For example: http://www.wiredwoods.org
