Q: What is Web Design?
Web design is the creation of digital environments that facilitate and encourage human activity; reflect or adapt to individual voices and content; and change gracefully over time while always retaining their identity.

A: What's the difference between the Internet and the World Wide Web?
The Internet and the World Wide Web are 2 separate, but related things. The two terms are not interchangeable and should not be confused with each other.

The Internet is a worldwide network connecting millions of computers together to form a global network. Any computer can communicate with any other computer connected to the Internet via various conventions & protocols.

The World Wide Web is a way of accessing information using the medium of the Internet. The World Wide Web uses the HTTP protocol, usually by the TCP/IP convention which is just one of the many languages spoken over the Internet. The vast majority of people utilize browsers such as Netscape and Internet Explorer to access web pages on their local machines.

The World Wide Web is just one of many ways to share information via the Internet. Information may be shared using the HTTP, email SMTP protocols, instant messaging, FTP File Transfer Protocol or TELNET to name a few.
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A: What is TCP/IP?
Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. The protocols, or conventions, that computers use to communicate over the Internet.
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A: What is an IP address?
An Internet Protocol or IP address is an identifier number. IP's are a unique number that identifies a networked machine so that it may communicate via Internet protocols with other machines on a network or connected via the Internet.

Networks using the TCP/IP protocol route messages based on the IP address of the destination requested to move between remote locations on the network.

IP numbers usually consist of four numbers which maybe a single digit or a pair or even three digits separated by periods (often called "dots".) The format is a 32-bit numeric address usually written as four numbers separated by periods. Each number can be zero to 255. For example, 1.160.10.240 could be an IP address, also referred to as an Internet Protocol address.

Each part of the IP address is a number between 0 and 225; however, the first number must be less than 224 and the last number cannot be 0.

IP addresses are logically divided into two parts: The network (similar to a telephone area code) the first two sets, and the system on the network (similar to a phone number) the second two sets.
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A: What is a URL?
In short URL means Uniform Resource Locator. Which is what domains such as www.cnn.com or www.wto.org www.navy.mil or www.usps.gov www.thetimes.uk are, for example.
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A: What is TELNET?
TELNET is the Internet standard protocol for remote login (terminal connection) service. TELNET allows a user at one site to interact with a remote timesharing system at another site as if the user's terminal were connected directly to the remote computer, a virtual interface.
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A: What is a Web Hosting Service?
A company that provides storage space for your Web pages and files. These companies administer "Web servers" that enable browsers to view your pages. Hosting fees vary depending on the services offered. The cost can be between a couple thousand dollars, (US) per month, for dedicated enterprise server setups, to free for the banner style sites like geocities.com host. Most providers prefer to bill either quarterly or yearly for their fee based services.
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A: What is an ISP or Internet Service Provider?
ISP the Acronym for Internet Service Provider. These are the companies such as Time Warner, AOL, Cox cable, Verizion and SBC, that provide access to end users of the Internet. The cost for these services may vary depending on the speed of the connection or network bandwidth.
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A: What is HTML?
HTML or Hyper Text Mark-Up Language is the method utilized for publishing on the World Wide Web. It is a nonproprietary format and can be created and processed by a wide range of tools, from simple plain text editors (windows notepad) to sophisticated WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) authoring tools like Dreamweaver, Adobe Go Live, Microsoft Frontpage etc.. HTML uses tags to structure graphics and text into tables, headings, paragraphs, lists, hypertext links etc. that make up the pages we view through our browsers. More info from wc3.org can be found here.
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A: What is HTTP?
HyperText Transport Protocol the method for requesting documents from the World-Wide-Web. Both Internet and www Address are preceded by http://
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A: What is FTP?
The Acronym for File Transfer Protocol is the method used to move files from one computer (a local machine) to another (a remote machine). It is by this method the webmaster publishes the web pages to the web server, so they may be viewed with the various browsers.
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A: What is a DNS?
Short for Domain Name System (or Service or Server), an Internet service that translates domain names into IP addresses similar to a phone number or postal zip code.

The Internet protocols work by using the IP addresses to locate machines on the Internet via the TCP/IP protocol. It is not, however, as easy for humans to remember the vast quantity of numbers used for locating online machines. The Domain Name structure and facility makes this a great deal easier by using URL's Uniform Request Locator's.

Every time you type a domain name into your browser or click a hypertext link a DNS service must translate the name into the corresponding IP address. For example, the domain name http://www.3bears.net might translate to 66.98.176.41. Etc..
This method makes it possible to link any content on any web server to any content on another one by the HTTP protocol.
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*You must have both a DNS registration service & a hosting service to maintain a site or domain Ie. www.toyota.com.*

A: What is a POP server?
A POP server uses the Post Office Protocol to store a users' incoming e-mail until they read or download it to their local mail client, I.e.. Outlook, Eudora Netscape mail Etc.. It is the in bound mail server your ISP provides.
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A: What is an SMTP server?
SMTP is an acronym for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol which is the protocol used for routing e-mail across the Internet. It is the outgoing mail server your ISP provides.
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A: What is Web Mail?
Web mail is the general term for browser based mail clients such as HotMail.com, mail2web.com or gmail.google.com provide.
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A: What is Java Script?
Developed by Netscape Corp. Java script is a non-compiled command language used in HTML applications where the instructions are managed by the browser.
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A: What is a JPG?
.JPG is the file extension for Joint Photographic Experts Group, a standardized image compression mechanism designed for compressing either full-color or grayscale photographic images, often for use on the Web. JPG is "lossy," meaning that the decompressed image is not quite of the same quality as the original image.
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A: What is GIF?
Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange format, a bit-mapped graphics file format used on the World Wide Web. It supports images from 2 up to 256 colors and is often used for line graphics, logos, and graphics with simple palates etc..
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A: What is BMP or bit-map?
Bitmap file or .bmp is a common image format on Windows computers. Files of this type usually have the suffix ".bmp" as part of their name. Due to file size constraints bit maps are usually to large to use in web site applications.
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A: What is ASCII or plain text?
ASCII is an acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange, a 7-bit code that represents the most basic letters of the Roman alphabet, numbers, and other characters used in computing. ASCII characters allow us to communicate with computers, which use a language called binary code which is made up of 0s and 1s. When we type ASCII characters from the keyboard (which looks like words to us), the computer interprets them as binary code so they can be read, manipulated, stored and retrieved. ASCII files are sometimes called "plain" or "unformatted" text files.
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