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| INTERNET DICTIONARY - LETTER "W" | |
| W3 | See: World Wide Web |
| W3 Consortium | An industry consortium headed by the Laboratory for Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (W3 refers to the World Wide Web.) The consortium promotes standards and encourages interoperability among World Wide Web products. Originally based at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva, Switzerland, where the World Wide Web technology was developed, the Consortium has had modest success in fostering cooperation on Web technologies among a number of private corporations that are often reluctant to share their secrets. |
| WAIS | See: Wide Area Information Servers |
| WAN | See: Wide area network |
| Web Designer | The asthetic and navigational Architect of a Web site and it's presentation. How the site "looks" and "feels" is the responsibilty of the Web designer. Takes alot of heat if graphics are "fuzzy" , links are too light, or if something is "hard to find". Usually this person is on the artistic side of Web site building/developing however, an extensive knowledge of Web based programming, art, and information architecture combined are considered fundamental to being a successful Web Designer. This person very often can create entire Web productions completely on their own with little "outside" help. Oh, and good client relational skills a must! SEE ALSO: Web Guru. |
| Web Developer | A person who from a technical standpoint, architecturally "builds" Web sites. Researches and provides through programming the means for a particular Web product to work. Not to be confused with the Web counterpart of Web designer. |
| Web Guru | A title usually given (in a positive way) to a person who handles all the Web/Internet needs of an organization or company. It is also used to describe someone with great Internet knowledge and technical prowess and/or Web design skills. Usually this person works very late at night and sleeps all day and drinks lots of Mochas. Can also be, but not to be confused with a Webmaster or Websmith. |
| Web jam | A Weblike layering of music, media, performers, audience, and the surrounding ecosystem into a rhythmic "jungle." The objective is to celebrate an expanded sense of nature inclusive of culture and technology. With roots in African American jazz and 1990's Rave culture, the Web jam takes an improvisational, "emergent" approach to cultural, political, and ecological systems. The first Web jam, known as "Organism," was instigated by Ebon Fisher in the spring of 1993 in collaboration with 120 artists, musicians, and children from Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Over 2,000 people attended -jamming from 6 at night till 9 the next morning. |
| Webmaster or Webmistress | A commonly used and sometimes misused term which can refer to many different types of individuals involved with a particular Web site. Most correctly it is the person who maintains, "runs", or "watches over" the content and functionality of a particular Web site. The all points information person/ambassador for a Web site. The person to which all feedback and correspondance for a Web site is usually sent to. This person is commonly an individual who either entirely or in part helped to build (graphics or programming or both) the Web site he or she is the webmaster/webmistress for. When you see a link on the bottom of a Web page that says for example: webmaster@somedomain.com - this is an e-mail link to send comments or questions about the Web site you are visiting to a person who is designated to receive such feedback, and should be the person best suited to handle whatever feedback comes in. Some Web sites have a link to a Webmaster who actually may know very little about the particular Web site's content and is merely the person who handles any technical oriented problems that a user may have and probably works for the hosting service that is hosting the Web site and not the company or person who actually monitors the information contained on the site. An interesting point to keep in mind is that the term "Webmaster" (like Ambassador) is NOT gender specific, and can refer to a man or a woman, or even a group of Web people who are performing the function described above. The term webmistress however is purposely called what it is to have the user believe the person "watching" over the site is a female. This is probably usually true but there is no real way to know when you are sending this person an e-mail. SEE ALSO: Websmith and Web Guru. |
| Web page | or World Wide Web page - There are different usages of this term. The most technically correct usage means a single HTML file, which when viewed by a browser on the World Wide Web (WWW) could be several screen-dimensions long, meaning you would "scroll" to view contents that are off-screen. The size of a Web page varies greatly from system to system and depends largely on what your computer monitor's resolution is set at, therefore the contents of a given HTML file which appears either as 2 or 10 or any amount of screens long, is considered a single Web page. If you scroll up and down this page for example you will notice other information on it other than just what fits in one screen of your browser. All this information is considered to be on one Web page. Large Web sites are said to have hundreds of pages of information. This means the site contains hundreds of separate documents varying in length each with probably a different topic or subject. Web page length is sometimes judged by how much of its content fits on a printed 8 1/2" X 11" page. This usage is less correct and is usually only done by Web Designers who have crossed over from the print industry in estimating how many pages they are going to charge a client for designing. The term Web page is also used to refer to an entire Web site. You may hear someone say "Have you got a Web page?" This usage pertains more to a collection of "pages" which are "housed" under one domain name. You may also hear it referred as a homepage, although a homepage is indeed a Web page it is not quite the same since a homepage is usually the starting point or front door to alot more Web pages or Web site. |
| Websmith | A person who builds Web sites. The developer or designer of a Web site. SEE ALSO: Web developer and Web designer. |
| welcome page | The introductory Web page for a Web site, also referred to as the home page. The first page of a Web site to contain some welcome and/or navigation information about the Web site. Not to be confused with a buffer page or splash page. |
| WG | Working Group |
| white pages | The Internet supports several databases that contain basic information about users, such as email addresses, telephone numbers, and postal addresses. These databases can be searched to get information about particular individuals. Because they serve a function akin to the telephone book, these databases are often referred to as "white pages. See also: Knowbot, WHOIS, X.500. |
| WHOIS | An Internet program which allows users to query a database of people and other Internet entities, such as domains, networks, and hosts, kept at the DDN NIC. The information for people shows a person's company name, address, phone number and email address. See also: Defense Data Network Network ..., white pages, Knowbot, X.500. [Source: FYI4] |
| Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) | A distributed information service which offers simple natural language input, indexed searching for fast retrieval, and a "relevance feedback" mechanism which allows the results of initial searches to influence future searches. Public domain implementations are available. See also: archie, Gopher, Prospero. |
| Wide Area Network (WAN) | A network, usually constructed with serial lines, which covers a large geographic area. See also: Local Area Network, Metropolitan Area Network. |
| wildcard or *.* | A character that is used in text searches to make finding a match easier. An asterisk (*) in a character string usually means find any character or set of characters. |
| WinZIP | The Windows program you are going to need to decompress most of the files you download on the Internet. Macintosh users check out StuffIT. WinZip brings the convenience of Windows to the use of ZIP files without requiring PKZIP and PKUNZIP. The new WinZip Wizard makes unzipping easier than ever. WinZip features built-in support for popular Internet file formats, including TAR, gzip, Unix compress, UUencode, BinHex, and MIME. ARJ, LZH, and ARC files are supported via external programs. WinZip interfaces to most virus scanners. |
| Wizard | Computer-based help that guides you through the steps necessary to complete a task. |
| worm | A computer program which replicates itself and is self- propagating. Worms, as opposed to viruses, are meant to spawn in network environments. Network worms were first defined by Shoch & Hupp of Xerox in ACM Communications (March 1982). The Internet worm of November 1988 is perhaps the most famous; it successfully propagated itself on over 6,000 systems across the Internet. See also: Trojan Horse, virus. |
| World Wide Web(WWW) | A distributed hypertext-based information system created by researchers at CERN in Switzerland, is a globally interconnected network of hypermedia information based on the Internet plus a protocol for transmission of hypermedia documents, plus a set of servers that respond to requests from browsers (or clients) for those documents. |
| WRT | With Respect To |
| WWW | See: World Wide Web |
| WYSIWYG | What You See is What You Get |
