| FTP (File Transfer Protocol) |
A popular communications protocol used to transfer files between networked computers. Used in web design to
upload (and, less often, download) web pages to a web server.
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| HTML (Hypertext Mark-up Language) |
Used to create web pages. Final version 4.1 was completed in December 1999. |
| Text Editor |
A program used to create or modify text documents. Text editors are used in web design to manually type
in the HTML code for a web page.
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| Web Authoring Application |
An application that provides web-specific tools to assist the development of web pages. Many incorporate a
text editor in addition to some degree of WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) page layout capability.
Some include FTP capabilities.
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| Web Server (Computer) |
A networked computer that stores web pages and runs a web server application to deliver requested web
pages.
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| Web Server (Application) |
A program that handles requests for web pages and other web-related communications. Like most of the world,
ULM uses Apache Web Server, a free and open-source web server.
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| XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language) |
Created as a "bridge language" between HTML and XML. Current version 1.1 was completed in May 2001; version
2.0 is under development.
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| XML (Extensible Mark-up Language) |
Created as a standard for electronic documents of all kinds (including web pages).
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