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GEEKSPEAK DEFINITIONS
HTML -
Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is the building blocks of web design. It lets you create new stuff on your page, like boxes, images and links. You can use HTML to set styles and color too, but it's better to use CSS for this, unless you're just styling one single word, sentence or image.
XHTML -
Extensible HTML. The difference between HTML and XHTML is that XHTML is structurally correct. Tags are always ended sometimes with a "/>" (i.e "< br>" becomes “
” in XHTML) and many tags that are allowed in HTML have been replaced with CSS equivalents. On most sites, both HTML and XHTML tags will work.
CSS -
Cascading Style Sheets. Imagine them as virtual paints. You can use style sheets to color or style text images and boxes on your page. They're not good for creating new boxes or images though. That's what HTML is for.
Hex Codes -
Hex codes are for setting color. They're always a string of letters and/or numbers (6) preceded by a "#" sign. Although lots of the basic color names are recognized by browsers, hex codes are still useful because they allow you to be more specific; for instance, red text could be #ff0000, #cc0000, or #990000. You can find hex codes for any color on Webmonkey or Mandarin Designs has quite a long list.
Url, Path or Hyperlink -
All three refer to the exact same thing. They are the http:// address of a page or image, as you would type it in the address bar at the top of your browser. For instance, the Url/Path/Hyperlink of this page is: http://www.thisfallenveil.piczo.com/geekspeak-url,path,orhyperlink.
Bandwidth -
When referring to a web site, bandwidth is "the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time". In other words, if somebody accesses my web page, their computer downloads the graphics on the page itself, and anything else on it. The data is being transferred to your computer and therefore uses up a bit of bandwidth. There is usually a bandwidth limit on most web sites (including my photobucket account) and when a web site goes over the limit, the webmaster is either charged extra money or their web site goes down temporarily and cannot be accessed. This is why most webmasters will not let you direct link their files since this causes bandwidth to be used up faster.
Direct Linking -
This is best defined with an example so here we go. If somebody is direct linking, let's say, an image, from my web site, this means that they are putting an image starting with the address "http://www.thisfallenveil.piczo.com" onto their web page. Direct linking is definitely NOT something anybody should do since it uses up the bandwidth of the web site that you got it off of. It also costs the website holder more money for the site because of the bandwidth being used. This could reeeaallly piss the person off, and could result in banning from the site. An example of a code for an image being direct linked to my web site would look something like this:
< Right click on this image and go to 'properties'. See how the URL of the image starts with my Photobucket account? That means it's being direct linked to my Photobucket. So if you're at a web site that provides images for you to use but tells you not to direct link, you have to get your own web space, save the image to your own server, and upload whatever file you want to use onto there for you to use.
Classes -
A class is a name or ID given to things on your page so that you can refer to them easily in CSS. Just as you can refer to table or img, meaning all tables or images on the page, you can give one or two tables or images a class, so that you can style them on their own. You can recognize classes in CSS because they are always preceded by a dot, for example, the left navigation menu on a page has the class leftnav, so to set styles for it you would use .leftnav { styles here } in your stylesheet.
You can give a box or image of your own a class by adding class=" myclassname " to its tag, for example < img url="YOUR IMAGE URL" class="myimage" > Then to refer to it in CSS you would use .myimage { styles here }
HTML -
Hypertext Markup Language. HTML is the building blocks of web design. It lets you create new stuff on your page, like boxes, images and links. You can use HTML to set styles and color too, but it's better to use CSS for this, unless you're just styling one single word, sentence or image.
XHTML -
Extensible HTML. The difference between HTML and XHTML is that XHTML is structurally correct. Tags are always ended sometimes with a "/>" (i.e "< br>" becomes “
” in XHTML) and many tags that are allowed in HTML have been replaced with CSS equivalents. On most sites, both HTML and XHTML tags will work.
CSS -
Cascading Style Sheets. Imagine them as virtual paints. You can use style sheets to color or style text images and boxes on your page. They're not good for creating new boxes or images though. That's what HTML is for.
Hex Codes -
Hex codes are for setting color. They're always a string of letters and/or numbers (6) preceded by a "#" sign. Although lots of the basic color names are recognized by browsers, hex codes are still useful because they allow you to be more specific; for instance, red text could be #ff0000, #cc0000, or #990000. You can find hex codes for any color on Webmonkey or Mandarin Designs has quite a long list.
Url, Path or Hyperlink -
All three refer to the exact same thing. They are the http:// address of a page or image, as you would type it in the address bar at the top of your browser. For instance, the Url/Path/Hyperlink of this page is: http://www.thisfallenveil.piczo.com/geekspeak-url,path,orhyperlink.
Bandwidth -
When referring to a web site, bandwidth is "the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time". In other words, if somebody accesses my web page, their computer downloads the graphics on the page itself, and anything else on it. The data is being transferred to your computer and therefore uses up a bit of bandwidth. There is usually a bandwidth limit on most web sites (including my photobucket account) and when a web site goes over the limit, the webmaster is either charged extra money or their web site goes down temporarily and cannot be accessed. This is why most webmasters will not let you direct link their files since this causes bandwidth to be used up faster.
Direct Linking -
This is best defined with an example so here we go. If somebody is direct linking, let's say, an image, from my web site, this means that they are putting an image starting with the address "http://www.thisfallenveil.piczo.com" onto their web page. Direct linking is definitely NOT something anybody should do since it uses up the bandwidth of the web site that you got it off of. It also costs the website holder more money for the site because of the bandwidth being used. This could reeeaallly piss the person off, and could result in banning from the site. An example of a code for an image being direct linked to my web site would look something like this:
< Right click on this image and go to 'properties'. See how the URL of the image starts with my Photobucket account? That means it's being direct linked to my Photobucket. So if you're at a web site that provides images for you to use but tells you not to direct link, you have to get your own web space, save the image to your own server, and upload whatever file you want to use onto there for you to use.Classes -
A class is a name or ID given to things on your page so that you can refer to them easily in CSS. Just as you can refer to table or img, meaning all tables or images on the page, you can give one or two tables or images a class, so that you can style them on their own. You can recognize classes in CSS because they are always preceded by a dot, for example, the left navigation menu on a page has the class leftnav, so to set styles for it you would use .leftnav { styles here } in your stylesheet.
You can give a box or image of your own a class by adding class=" myclassname " to its tag, for example < img url="YOUR IMAGE URL" class="myimage" > Then to refer to it in CSS you would use .myimage { styles here }
