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The content on a Web page that is visible without scrolling. The part of a web site you see when you have to scroll down is called "below the fold". The above the fold zone is considered the most important part of a Web page, as that is where the viewer's attention is drawn.
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ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line) |
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A technology that allows sending data to be sent over existing copper telephone lines at much faster speed. Asymmetric refers to the lower upload (from your computer to Internet) compared to the downloading rate, (from Internet to your computer). With ADSL is you must to be 3.5 km from a telephone line exchange. Improved technology has now made it possible for you to be as far as 5.5 km away.
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An option in File Transfer Protocol (FTP) that lets you to connect to an FTP site, search available files, and download any web document, file, or program without having to create an account (with a username and password) on the computer where the material is located. Most FTP servers allow limited numbers of anonymous FTP users to login at the same.
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What you sometimes see before an image appears on a Web page (or before an image is loaded completed). It is important as search engines cannot see any images, but they can register the alt text description.
Many web designers make the mistake of using this as a navigational aid, as certain browsers display the alt text when the mouse pointer hovers about it, however other browsers don't.
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aliasing and anti-aliasing |
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Aliasing is a Web design expression referring to the undesirable distortion of visual elements on a computer screen. These take many forms, such as jagged or stair-stepped edges appearing along what is supposed to be a smooth, curvy surface (like an C or S) or diagonal lines across screen (also known as "jaggies"). Anti-aliasing is a software based technique used to make these curved edges or diagonal lines look continuous and smooth.
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A graphical web format that allows a number of static images to be displayed one after another other, giving the effect of motion or animation. These were novelty in the mid 90's, but are now one of the trademarks of un-professional web site design.
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A small Java program that can be incorporated in a web page. Applets are different from full-fledged Java applications in that they are not allowed to access certain resources on the local PC, such as files and serial devices (e.g. modems and printers), and are not allowed to communicate with most other computers across a network.
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ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) |
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The default world-wide standard word for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers and punctuation. There are 128 standard ASCII codes and all of them can be represented by a 7 digit binary number (0000000 through 1111111).
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ASP (Active Server Pages) |
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Active Server Pages are dynamically created by a server using Visual Basic or Script code. ASP pages always have the extension .asp instead of .htm or .html. These kind of pages are very common in web design.
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