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Web Language Dictionary
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Welcome to NetLingo!
- The online dictionary containing hundreds of words that are emerging as a new vocabulary surrounding the technology and community of the Internet and the World Wide Web.
Launch
NetLingo floating window which lists all the words in the dictionary that you can keep on your desktop as you
read this site or surf around the Internet.
Each time you see a word you don't
understand you can pull up the floating
window and look it up!
Find also
terms and definitions in Glossary of Internet Terms
or click the first letter of the term you are
looking for in the alphabet:
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Banner
An advertisement on a Web page that links to an advertiser’s site.
Ad banners are the most common unit of advertising on the Web and cost anywhere from free to upwards of $15,000 per month depending on the amount of page requests the Web site recieves. The standard size for an ad banner set by the Internet Advertising Bureau
(IAB) is 468 pixels wide by 60 pixels high.
Visit
banner samples and see banner and button
other standard sizes.
Domain
(name)
The "address" or URL of a particular Web site. This is also how you describe the name that is at the right of the @ sign in an
Email address. tripod.com is the domain name
where this site is hosting. There is an organization called
InterNIC that registers domain names for a
small fee and keeps people from registering the same name.
Hosting
terms
Link
Exchange Banner Network
To advertise your site on one or more of
link exchange special ad servers. An ad server
manages and maintains ad banners for a Web site.
Programs used are extremely sophisticated and are capable of keeping track and reporting Web site usage statistics.
Ad banners can then be targeted towards certain types of individuals. It also provides the ability to rotate banners so a user won’t see the same
banner every time they come back to the same page.
Most popular banner network is named MSN Link
Exchange (LE): Reaches more than 65% of all visitors to the web, and over 40 million
viewers, over 450,000 sites in 32 languages
are indexed.
Meta
tag
An optional HTML tag (HTML code element) that is used to specify information about a Web document. Some search engines such as AltaVista use "spiders" to index Web pages. These spiders read the information contained within a page's META tag. So in theory, an HTML or Web page author has the ability to control how there site is indexed by search engines and how and when it will "come up" on a user's search.
The META tag can also be used to specify an HTTP or URL address for the page to "jump" to after a certain amount of time. This is known as Client-Pull. What this means, is a Web page author can control the amount of time a Web page is up on the screen as well as where the browser will go next.
Here's a look at the syntax for search engine indexing: <HTML><HEAD><TITLE>Page
title</TITLE><META NAME="keywords"
CONTENT="keyword listing"><META
NAME="description"
CONTENT="description given"></HEAD></HTML>
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Search
Engine
A program which acts like a library card catalog for the Internet. Search engines attempt to help a user isolate desired information or resources by searching for keywords that the user specifies. The method for finding this information is usually done by maintaining an index of Web resources that can be queried for the keywords or concepts entered by the user. The index can be built from specific resource lists or created by Web wanderers, robots, spiders, crawlers, and worms. From the Net surfer point of view search engines can be quite tiresome and not very fruitful if you don't know how to use them correctly. Different engines are good for different kinds of searches. It's a good idea before using a search engine to read the help section of the engine's Web site to see what the best way is to optimize your results.
Among top sized engines are: HotBot,
AltaVista, Northern
Light, Exite,
Infoseek,
Lycos, Yahoo
and many others.
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This page was last updated on 11.18.2001
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