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Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) - ✔✔✔A technology that allows greater style definition and formatting
control of HTML elements. Formatting can be placed within the HTML or called remotely from an
external style sheet.
cloud computing - ✔✔✔Software, infrastructure and platform services that are hosted by a remote data
center and provided to organizations or individuals over the Internet.
Document Type Definition (DTD) - ✔✔✔A set of rules contained in a simple text file that defines the
structure, syntax and vocabulary as it relates to tags and attributes for a corresponding document.
Extensible Markup Language (XML) - ✔✔✔A markup language that describes document content instead
of adding structure or formatting to document content. A simplified version of SGML.
graphical user interface (GUI) - ✔✔✔A program that provides visual navigation with menus and screen
icons, and performs automated functions when users click command buttons.
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) - ✔✔✔The traditional authoring language used to develop Web
pages for many applications.
markup language - ✔✔✔A series of commands used to format, organize and describe information on a
Web page.
metalanguage - ✔✔✔A language used for defining other languages.
Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) - ✔✔✔A protocol that enables operating systems to map
file name extensions to corresponding applications. Also used by applications to automatically process
files downloaded from the Internet.
on the fly - ✔✔✔Dynamically created Web page content, as opposed to pre-defined, static content.
, Software as a Service (SaaS) - ✔✔✔Software that is hosted centrally on the Internet and accessed by
users with a Web browser.
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) - ✔✔✔A metalanguage used to create other languages,
including HTML and XHTML.
troll - ✔✔✔A Web user who publishes negative comments or submits feedback simply to annoy or
anger.
trouble ticket - ✔✔✔A record of a problem related to a service provided by an ISP or cloud service
provider. Used to record receipt of a complaint and track resolution of the problem.
user agent - ✔✔✔Any application, such as a Web browser, mobile phone, smartphone or help engine,
that renders HTML for display to users.
wireframing - ✔✔✔The process of developing an outline for a Web presence.
block-level element - ✔✔✔A markup element that affects at least an entire paragraph.
character set - ✔✔✔The group of symbols used to render text on a page.
document type declaration (<!DOCTYPE>) - ✔✔✔A declaration of document or code type embedded
within an HTML, XHTML, XML or SGML document; identifies the version and markup language used.
Denoted by the <!DOCTYPE> declaration at the beginning of the document.
fixed-width font - ✔✔✔A font in which every character, including the space character, has equal width.
In proportional-width fonts, letters such as I and J have less width than M or B.
text-level element - ✔✔✔A markup element that affects single characters or words.