Browser – software used to surf the Web

Dial-up Service – gets you on the Internet through your phone line

Domain – the name of a site on the Worldwide Web

DSL – Data Service Line, available through the phone company

High Speed Access – gets you on the Internet through cable or DSL

Home Page – the first thing people see when they connect to your domain

Hosting Service – provides the space (memory allocation) for a Web site on the Internet

ISP – Internet Service Provider (for dial-up or high speed access)

Keywords – words embedded in Web pages that do not appear on-screen but are referenced by Search Engines

Link – label/address for another Web location that takes you there when selected [here is a link to our Portfolio]

Mail Client – this refers to a piece of software that retrieves, sends and manages e-mail on your computer; examples: Outlook, Eudora

Navigation – refers to the links used to get from one web page to another within a single site

POP3 Retrieval – a protocol for downloading e-mail from an on-line mailbox into e-mail software on a specific computer (see "mail client")

Search Engines – on-line utilities that search the Web ["google" is a search engine]

URL – address of a single page on the Worldwide Web [the url for this page is: http://www.cinderzelda.com/zweb/glossary.html ]