For application-specific terms, refer to the
help feature of that application.
Hexadecimal
Web colors are specified in hexadecimal numbers. Hexadecimal is a base 16 system, which consists of the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F.
Hits
Requests for HTML files. A web page with three graphic images will result in four hits: one for the HTML file and one for each of the graphic image files. While a hit is a meaningful measure of how much traffic a server handles, it can be a misleading indicator of how many pages are being looked at.
The intended first page of a website that a visitor views. See Website, Splash Page.
The act of housing, serving, and maintaining a website. It can be on-site at the client's business or off-site at a co-locating center. See Co-locating, Remote Hosting.
An area of an image map that contains a link to another HTML document. See Image Map.
HyperText Markup Language. The primary language used to create web pages. A defining feature of HTML is its inclusion of tags that create hyperlinks to other documents on the Internet. It is based on SGML. See Hyperlink, Markup, SGML, Website, XHTML.
Software that generates HTML quickly but can have trouble managing graphics and scripts. See HTML Editors, WYSIWYG Editors.
Software that is used to write HTML that provides tools to insert tags, check syntax, and search for code. There are two types: Simple and WYSIWYG. See WYSIWYG Editors, HTML Conversion Utilities.
HyperText Transfer Protocol. A set of rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia) on the World Wide Web. See Protocol.
An element in an HTML document that links to another place in the same document or to an entirely different document. Typically, you click on the hyperlink to follow it. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext systems, including the World Wide Web. See Anchor Tag, Hypertext, World Wide Web, HTML, Link.
An electronic information structure through which you index via hyperlinks. The images or text that you select to view associated objects are called hyperlinks. See Hyperlink.