Boot Camp

Web Authoring Boot Camp
tics of desktop applications, but are delivered by a site-specific browser, a browser plugin,
or independently via sandboxes or virtual machines.
Scripts: An executable list of commands created by a scripting language. Scripts that are
executed on a web server are server−side scripts. Scripts that execute on a website visitor’s
own computer are client−side scripts. Scripts can be embedded within HTML to
produce a web page with dynamic actions.
Search Engine: A web interface that lets a visitor search for information on the World
Wide Web. Examples include Google, Bing, Yahoo, and others.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO): The process of improving ranking in search engine
results.
Server: A computer connected to the Internet that stores and provides information. Web
pages are stored on a server, which is a storage tool of a web hosting service.
Site: A particular ‘place’ on the Internet - a collection of Web pages.
Sitemap, design: A visual tool which displays the pages which will be designed for a
website. Can be displayed in a flow-chart fashion, with main levels, sub levels, auxiliary
levels, etc.
Sitemap, web: A sitemap provides an overview of website content in a manner similar to
the contents page of a book. Sections and pages are typically listed according to narrative
flow, if the author intends for pages to be read in a specific order; or alphabetically or by
chronology if content pages are essentially unrelated. The later is the case in news websites,
where articles are often archived by topic, and then by title or publication date.
Spider: An automated software robot that continuously crawls hyperlinks and pages on
the Internet and collects data that is returned to its database for indexing.
Splash Page: A splash page is an introduction to a website, placed before the homepage,
and are often animated and introduce the products, services or mission of the website.
Standards-compliant Mode: A web browser assumes that a web page has been authored
to the Web content specification declared in the page’s head section; code that does
not conform to the declared standard may not display, or may display incorrectly.
Style Rules: Coding language used to describe the look and formatting of web pages in a
more versatile manner than HTML coding is able to do.
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