PawPrint.net Glossary of Terms

An address referring to a document on the Internet. This can be used to reference a web page via HTTP or a file to be accessed via FTP, for example. The reason for a URL (rather then just the address) is to define completely what a computer must do, and where it must go, to access a document (sometimes even on it´s local hard drive in the case of ´file:´)

The syntax of a URL consists of four elements:

Protocol://address/path/document - here are a few examples:

http://www.pawprint.net/in...

1) The main Printed Circuit Board (PCB) of a computer - referred to as a Mother Board because other smaller PCB´s are sometimes attached to it - this are in turn referred to as daughter boards.

2) Any PCB that can accept daughter boards.

An ISO/ANSI/ECMA standard that specifies a way to annotate text documents with information about types of sections of a document. This is the root of most other markup languages: XML and HTML being examples.

ls [options] [names]

List the contents of a directory or directories. This is similar to the dos command ´dir´ frequently abbreviated in many shells to ll for ls -l which lists files with long format. If no [names] then the contents of the current directory are listed.

Options
-1, --format=single-column
Print one entry per line of output.

-a
List all files, including the normally hidden files whose names begin with a period.

-b, --escape
Display nonprinting characters in octal an...

A lens of variable focal length. For example, in an 50-500mm Zoom Lens, the focal length can be vaired between the lower limit of 50mm and the upper of 500mm. This affects the scale of the image on which the lens is focused without throwing the image out of focus.

The process of altering web pages to correct errors and add strategically placed keywords with the goal of achieving better placement in the search engines.

PawPrint believes that this is an intrinsic part of authoring any web site and despite the claims of many companies that specialize in SEO only, should not be necessary if the page was designed correctly from the outset.