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Glossary
- HTML
- HyperText Markup Language. This is the language used to specify the links
and formatting we support. For a description on how you should use HTML see
the Style
Guide for Online Hypertext.
- URL
- Uniform Resource Locator. An URL on the World Wide Web serves the same
function
as a file name on your local hard disk. It allows you to specify a document
that exists anywhere
in the world. The URL for the link at the head of this paragraph is
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/demoweb/url-primer.html.
An URL contains (in general) three parts:
an access method (in this case
http), a machine name (in this
case www.ncsa.uiuc.edu) and a directory path and filename
(/demoweb/url-primer.html).
- MiniWeb
- This is NaviSoft's concept for how to keep a collection of pages together.
NaviPress provides you with a graphical view of the collection (a
miniweb) showing all the pages and any other files (such as images, sounds,
etc) and the connections between them.
- Style Mappings
- This is NaviSoft's way of getting around some of the limitations of HTML.
A style mapping allows you to specify what formatting effect each HTML
element
should have. For example, you could have a style mapping where the
<STRONG> emphasis tag was displayed in the color cyan
and in italics,
while the <H1> tag was right justified, 36 point text.
All text within <STRONG></STRONG> pairs in any page
with that style sheet specified would be cyan, and all text within
<H1></H1> pairs would be right justified.