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Glossary

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AdSense ad

A service provided by Google that allows you to place advertisements relevant to the surrounding page content on any page in your website. You earn revenue from Google when your website visitors click ads.

blog

A web-based journal (or "weblog") that can contain text, photos, and other media.

browser

An application you use to visit websites. Mac OS X comes with a browser called Safari.

Domain file

The file on your computer that contains all your iWeb website data.

domain name

The root (the first part, after "http" and "www") of your site's web address, or URL. For example, the domain of the site www.example.com/index is "example.com."

FTP

It is a protocol used to transfer data from one computer to another through a network, such as the Internet. iWeb has a built-in FTP (file transfer protocol) publishing capability so that you can publish websites to third-party hosting services other than MobileMe.

homepage

The first page that appears when you visit a website. Sometimes called the "start page," "default page," or "index page."

hyperlink

Text or an object you can click to initiate an action, such as going to another webpage or opening a document. Most text hyperlinks (also called "links") look different from surrounding text (they're underlined or in a different color) to indicate that you can click them.

MobileMe

A subscription-based Internet service provided by Apple Inc. Your MobileMe account provides one-click publishing for your iWeb sites, ad-free email services, photo and video sharing, online backup, synchronization, and more. For more information, visit www.me.com.

navigation menu

The website table of contents. The navigation menu lists pages in your website as links that visitors can click to go to a particular page. iWeb automatically creates a navigation menu for your website.

podcast

An audio or video file that is like an Internet radio or TV show. You can produce your own podcasts and let visitors download them one by one, or they can download new episodes automatically through a subscription.

RSS

RSS stands for “really simple syndication.” When visitors subscribe to the site’s feed, the updates are sent to the RSS reader of their choice.

URL

The website address, which you enter in a browser to go to the website. (URL stands for uniform resource locator.) A typical URL looks like this: http://www.apple.com

web

The web (or World Wide Web) is all the sites, pages, text, media files, and links that people interact with when they get connect to the Internet. Although it is common to use the terms "web" and "Internet" interchangeably, the Internet is actually the hardware and software network upon which the web is built.

webpage

A single page within a website. Also called "page."

website

A collection of individual webpages that are linked together into a website. Websites are usually organized around a theme, an individual, or an organization. Also called "site."

web widget

An object that embeds content from the web into any of your webpages; for example, a Google map or a snippet from another website such as YouTube.

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