Glossary

A B C D E F G H I J L M N O P R S T U V W X

Favicon

A Favicon is a small graphic that appears to the left of the web address in the address bar.

Firewall

A Firewall secures a network and protects it from access by unauthorized viewers.

Footer

The Footer is the bottom portion of the blog that lists navigation and copyright information.

Flash

Macromedia's widely known animation software, Flash, requires little bandwidth and displays a moving or changing sequence of graphics. Flash is commonly used to provide Web sites with graphically driven introductions.

Forum

A Forum is a Web site where users post messages and replies on topics of interest.

Forwarding

The Forwarding process directs a domain to another web address to view the content of another site using the original domain name.

Front page

The HTML editor, Front Page is a widely known HTML editor created by Microsoft for building websites.

FTP

File transfer protocol, or FTP is a way to transfer files across the Internet.

FTP backup

FTP Backup entails backing up data to a remote computer using FTP connection.

FTP Client

An FTP Client is software that assists users in using file transfer protocol to upload to their sites.

FTP user

The FTP user is the user account to upload to a website.

Fully qualified Domain

A Fully Qualified Domain includes the host.