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World Wide Web Consortium. This organization develops web technologies that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. W3C has more than 400 Member organizations from around the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the web. The organization's purpose is to develop standards so that the web evolves in a single direction rather than being splintered by competing factions. See WAI, Accessibility, SMIL, Cascading Style Sheets, DOM, XML.
Web Accessibility Initiative. An organization within W3C that promotes and publishes guidelines on web accessibility. See Accessibility, Assistive Technology.
WAIS
Wide Area Information Service. A protocol used to build indexes of text documents, including Internet pages, allowing quick searches for information.
A format for storing sound files developed jointly by Microsoft and IBM. Support for WAV files has been built into most Windows operating systems. See AIFF, AU.
An HTML document containing text, images, and other elements. Each page is an individual file with its own URL. A website is composed of one or more web pages. See URL, Website.
The person responsible for designing a website. See Client, User.
Web
Safe Color Palette
A set of 216 colors common to both Macintosh and Windows operating systems. By using only this set of colors you will be sure that your colors will look the same on both operating systems.
A related collection of HTML files, such as web pages, that resides on one or more servers. See Web Page, Home Page, HTML, Server.
White
Space
Refers to all characters that appear as blanks on a display or printer. This includes the space character, the tab character, and sometimes other special characters that do not have a visual form.
Windows Metafile Format. A graphic file format that can hold both vector and bitmap images. It is used primarily to exchange graphics between Microsoft Windows applications. See PICT.
An Internet service, based on the HTTP protocol, that allows users to get information from servers around the world through a system of hyperlinks. See Internet, HTTP, Hyperlink, Network.
"What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get." HTML editors that let designers create and edit pages in a graphic format that mimics the appearance of the web page as it will be displayed in a browser. See Authoring Tool, HTML Conversion Utilities, HTML Editors.