ALT Tags
A tag or text description of an image. Provides accessibility for those who do not have image capabilities.

Anchor
Another name for a link.

Browser
Program or software on your computer used to view Web pages, sometimes referred to as the client (Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer).

Content or Information Provider
A content provider is the person responsible for publishing and updating the information contained in a World Wide Web page or group of pages.

Frames
Divides a page into several windows-within-windows while acting like a single web page (each frame contains a single HTML document that can include completely separate contents and independent scrollbars).

GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
An image format that is very effective at reducing a file size--good format for images other than photographs.

Home or Page
The term "home page" is used loosely, but here it refers to what you see when you go to www.people.sinclair.edu. It is the top level of People.Sinclair.Edu's Web site.

HTTP: Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Designed to be a small, fast protocol (set of rules) that is well suited for distributed multimedia information systems and hypertext jumps between sites.

HTML: Hypertext Markup Language
Web pages are plain text files constructed with HTML. HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is implemented as a series of tags or instructions. Web authors use these tags or instructions to mark up a page of text and browsers then use these tags to accurately display the information for viewing.

Image Map
A set of coordinates that refer to areas of a picture that are used as links.

JPG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
Format created for the sole purpose of providing a highly efficient means of storing photographic images. All scanned photos should be stored in JPG format.

Link
A one-way hypermedia connection between information on the World Wide Web, expressed as a "link to" or "link from" a Web site or page of information.

Link Colors
Hyperlink -- text that is a different color and / or underlined that links to another page within the current Web site, or to another Web site. Default color is Blue.
Visited Hyperlink -- after a visitor has clicked on a link, it will change to the visited color for the remainder of the visitor's browser session. Default color is Purple.
Active Hyperlink -- at the time a visitor mouse clicks on a link, the link will momentarily change to the active color. Default color is Red.

URL's (Uniform Resource Locators)
Every web page on the web has an address. This address is what you type into your browser to instruct it to load a particular web page.

Web Site
A collection of Web Pages along with any supporting files (such as GIF or JPG graphics).

The World Wide Web
WWW is the major means of providing information over the Internet. As a graphical and hypertext medium it allows readers to navigate within and between documents. Audio and video capabilities are limited at this time but are increasing steadily. Many universities now use it as a means of advertising their institutions and of providing detailed information to on and off campus users as well as delivering course content