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Glossary of Internet Terms
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FAQ
 

FAQs are lists that answer the most common questions on a specific subject. There arethousands of FAQs on the web on subjects as diverse as golfing, DIY and fishing. They are usually written by people who have become tired of answering the same question over and over.
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fire wall
 

A combination of software and hardware which separates a Network into two or more parts for security purposes.
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Flash
 

Flash is a software from Adobe allowing you to design web animations. The viewer has to install the Flash plugin to view these files.
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form
 

A part of a page on a web site where users are invited to enter and submit information. After submission the information can be processed in many differentways. for instance, it can be us to to retrieve data from a database, or maybe its contents are sent in an e-mail.
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frames
 

A techniqueallowing the display of more than one page on a user's screen at the same time. Often used to keep a common directory or index to the site on the screen throughout. For an number of reasons, it is not considered to be a good option in web design.
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freeware
 

Non-copyrighted software made freely available for public use by its author.
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Front page
 

A Microsoft software program for Web site creation and management. For those familiar with Microsoft Word. Not widely used by professional web designers.
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FTP
 

A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites on the web. FTP is a way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. There are many Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using the account name "anonymous", thus these sites are called "anonymous ftp servers".
FTP was invented and in wide use long before the advent of the World Wide Web and originally was always used from a text-only interface.
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