Editing Web Pages Vocabulary

- LAN: Local-area network, is a computer network that covers a small geographic area, like a home, office or group buildings

- WAN: Wide area network, is a comupter network that covers a large area, it can be metropolitan, regional or national boundaries. It uses routers and public communications links.

- WWW: It stands for "The World Wide Web", is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a Web browser, a user views Web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia

- HTTP: Stands for "Hypertext Transfer Protocol", is a communications protocol for the transfer of information on the Internet. Its use for retrieving inter-linked text documents (hypertext) led to the establishment of the World Wide Web.

- HTML: Stands for "HyperText Markup Language", is the predominant markup language for Web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on.

- Web browser: A web browser is a software application which enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network.

- Web server: A computer program that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from web clients, which are known as web browsers, and serving them HTTP responses along with optional data contents, which usually are web pages such as HTML documents and linked objects.

- Web editor: An HTML editor is a software application for creating web pages. Although the HTML markup of a web page can be written with any text editor, specialized HTML editors can offer convenience and added functionality.