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A Few Key Vocab Words
That you should know!
By Dr. Bowie
Vocab Words
• Human-computer interface: or HCI “the physical
point at which the computer user and machine
meet” (Jeney 5).
• Servers: computers that are on 24/7 that store and
deliver information like emails, web pages, blogs,
and more.
• URL: Uniform Resource Locator are the address we
use to retrieve web page from the internet. This
address tells our computers where to find the
pages.
• Node: the name for a “page” on a website.
• Codex: Latin word for “block of wood”, but
currently is the word used for the book format we
use (separate pages bound with a cover). Can
also mean the print form of a text.
More Vocab Words
• WYSIWYG: (pronounced “wizzy-wig”) stands for “what you see
is what you get” and refers to programs that show you on
screen what the user will see. For example, MS Word is a
WYSIWYG program—since what you see on your screen is
what the print document will look like. However, even the best
WYSIWYG are often a bit “off”. Dreamweaver in design view is
WYSIWYG, but not in code view.
WYSIWYG
Not WYSIWYG
Even More Vocab Words
• Internal links: links to page within your website. These do not
have to be linked to with the full URL, but only with enough
information to tell the computer where to look within the site.
For example, if it is in the same folder it would just be the file’s
name, like: “cat.html”.
• External links: links to site or nodes outside of your website. The
full URL is necessary for these links. For example, if you linked to
GSU’s main page from your site it would be http://ww.gsu.edu.
• Email links: These links open up a blank email from the user’s
email client with the email address given by the link so you
can write an email. May not work with all email clients.
• Anchors: These links allow you to jump to a particular place on
a page. These are normally internal links and you can use
them to jump from one place on a node to another (say from
the bottom back to the top) or from one node to a particular
part of another node. These are very helpful and I use them on
the class site (see the resource page links at the top for
example).
These few words
should help you
navigate the
Internet and this
class!
Have fun and let me know if there
are other words that puzzle you!