Internet Lingo

ISP (Internet Service Provider) is the company that connects you to the Internet. This could be RoadRunner, AOL, your phone company, earthlink, etc.

Browser is the software you use to surf the Internet: Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari (Macs) are the most popular browsers. Since there have been so many problems with Microsoft's Internet Explorer, many have switched to Firefox (formerly Netscape) and Google Chrome. With AOL, the browser is built in.

Link and hyperlink are other names for a hypertext link. A link could be underlined text, a button, or an image—and when clicked, will take you to another page, or sometimes to another area on the same page (like this link).

URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is a website's address. For example, the URL of this page is http://www.walkermedia.net/lingo.html. (You can see it up in the browser's address bar.)

Web Site Host is the company that "rents" you space on their server for your website.

Server is the online computer/server where your website is located.