Glossary
| Bookmark | An entry in the 'Favourites' or "Bookmarks" menu of your browser that allows you with a single click to return to a world wide web (www) location previously saved. |
| Discussion Forum | Online, a place in a website where people may post and reply to messages. |
| Domain name | The high level designation for a unique address of a website. For example the domain name of this website is www.hsbcpensioners.org |
| Email client | The application you may use on your PC to receive, open, create and send email messages, e.g. Microsoft Outlook Express, or Office Outlook. Please note that if you connect to your internet service provider on the world wide web to send and receive emails (webmail), you are not using a PC email client. |
| Home Page | The principal page of a website; the top level or contents page. |
| Hyperlink | A
feature of a web page that allows you with a single click to
open another (linked) page in sequence, either in the same
or a new window. It may also allow you to open a blank pre-addressed email for sending a response to something on the page you are viewing. |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider - the organisation providing your internet connection with whom you maintain an account, e.g. AOL, BT, Freeserve, NTL, etc. |
| Link | See Hyperlink |
| Logon ID | A identifier (name, number or combination) that is used in conjunction with a password to enable secure logging on to a protected system, website, or part of a website. |
| Moderator | The person responsible for maintaining an online discussion forum. |
| Navigation Pane | A section of a page containing links to other pages on the website that aids quick and easy navigation about the site. |
| Registration | A process that provides a system administrator with a unique means of identifying a remote user for subsequent logon to a system or secure area. |
| Remote Server | You may sometimes see this in an error message. The remote server is the computer at the other end of your connection, serving you with information like this. |
| Site Map | A diagram or representation of the structure of a given website. |
| Sub-domain | A sub-level to a domain on the internet. Several sub-domains can exist in a hierarchy. For example if www.hspcpensioners.org is the domain, http://london.hsbcpensioners.org might be a sub-domain. |
| Thread | A discussion forum posting and a series of replies all about the same subject. |
| Thumbnail | A small image or photograph which holds a link to an enlarged version of it. The small size allows faster loading of the page on which it appears, and the choice for the user as to whether they wish to see the larger picture. |
| URL | Uniform Resource Locator, or the address of a website on the world wide web. Each page has its own URL. A URL will start with http:// which most browsers assume and insert, so you need type only the part of the address starting www. |
| Web Browser |
The program on your PC that allows you to view and navigate
websites, often Internet Explorer, Opera, Netscape or
Mozilla. Your browser will have two buttons, often at the top left hand corner marked with left and right hand arrows. These navigate BACK and FORWARD across pages you have viewed. |
| Webmail | A service provided by a number of organisations which allows you to access email services by logging on to an internet website, anywhere in the world. Examples are Yahoo or Hotmail. |
| Webmaster | The person responsible for the maintenance of a website. |
| Website | The location of an individual's or organisation's presence on the world wide web, consisting of one or more pages of information and/or pictures. |
| World Wide Web | The internet, Information Superhighway etc., a network of connected computers across the world providing access to (web)pages of information. Often designated as part of an internet address as www. |
