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Glossary
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animated GIF
A combination of multiple images. As you view an animated GIF on your Web browser, it repeats the animation. You can create an animated GIF using the Web Animator tool.

attribute
A property attached to a certain element, such as size and color. When editing your Web pages using Homepage Builder, you first create (or insert) something; then you change its attributes.

CGI program
A program for exchanging data between a client and a server. A CGI program is written in Perl or C language. It is often used when a server receives information--for example, questionnaires or orders--entered in a Web browser and then processes it.

channel
A Web site that is automatically delivered according to the schedule determined by the Web site creator.

client-side image map
An image map that is processed on the client (Web browser) side. Because HTML tags for this image map are embedded in an HTML file, you can easily use and manage this type of image map. arrow image map

dynamic HTML
The latest technology for creating animated Web pages. Netscape Navigator 4.0, Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0, or later version of these browsers can display dynamic HTML.

form
An interactive form, such as a questionnaire or an order form. Visitors to your Web site fill in blanks and enter responses to multiple choices within the form.

frame function
A function to divide a Web browser window into several sections.

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language)
A special language for creating Web pages, which contains such HTML tags as <P> <H1> <IMG>. HTML tags consists of alphabetic letters and symbols. The latest version is HTML 4.0.

image
Digital data such as photographs, illustrations, and animations. Images in GIF and JPEG formats are often used for Web pages. Recently, the new PNG format is also being used. When images in BMP or TIFF formats are pasted into Homepage Builder, they are automatically converted into GIF or JPEG formats.

image map
An image that has multiple links. arrowclient-side image map, server-side image map

installation
The insertion of a program into a personal computer to make it available for use.

Internet
The world's largest network. It can connect computers throughout the world using the TCP/IP protocol.

Java applet
A program written in the Java language. By changing its parameters, you can change such things as the background, movement, and text.

link
A function to jump. If you click text or an image to which a link is set, you jump another page or another place in the same page.

pixel
A small, square, colored dot, frequently used as a unit defining the display resolution or the image size. HTML uses it as unit defining the size of each element.

plug-in object
An object as the sound data (*.wav; *.mid; *.au) or multimedia data (Shockwave, VRML) that you can play back on a Web browser. It is called a plug-in object, because you must add a plug-in application to your Web browser to play it back.

provider
An agent that provides a connection to the Internet. Many providers offer a service for registering Web sites.

script
A program written in the script language, JavaScript, or VBScript (Visual Basic Script). You can write this program directly in your HTML file.

server
A computer that stores many Web sites on the Internet.

server-side image map
An image map that is processed on the server (your provider's server) side. To use this image map, you must create an image map file in addition to an HTML file. There are two types of the server side image maps, NCSA and CERN, depending on the application that the server uses. arrow image map

site
The server location where the Web pages are placed. Using Homepage Builder, you can create a virtual site on your own computer and match it with the server site.

style sheet
A file for controlling appearance. Style sheets have been adopted in HTML 4.0, so that you can segregate appearance issues from the document-element issues that are the proper concern of HTML. Homepage Builder is compatible with CSS (Cascading Style Sheet).

tag
Descriptions surrounded by < > that specify document elements in HTML. For example, the tag <P> indicates a paragraph, <H1> indicates a heading, and <IMG> indicates an image. A slash '/' is added to the tag indicating the end. The end of a heading, for example, is described as </H1>.

target
One of the link attributes that indicates where the link destination page is to be displayed.

top page
A page that is initially displayed when you access a Web site.

URL

An address of a Web page. It usually begins with http://www.... Because each URL is unique, you can access the target URL from anywhere in the world.

Web browser
An application for viewing Web pages. Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer are well-known Web browsers.

Web page
An HTML file on the Internet.

wizard
A user interface that enables you to do tasks step by step. You just need to select something or answer the question and then click the Next button. Wizards are often used in the Windows world, because they allow you to do tasks accurately.