G
gateway script See CGI.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) A graphical file format commonly used to display indexed-color images on the World Wide Web. GIF is a compressed format, designed to minimize file transfer time over standard phone lines. See also interlaced GIF.
gopher The Internet protocol where files are displayed in a hierarchical menu and are retrieved based on user input. You can create gopher hyperlinks (gopher://) in the FrontPage Editor.
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heading A paragraph style that is displayed in a large, bold typeface. The size of a heading is related to its level: Heading 1 is the largest, Heading 2, the next largest, and so on. Use headings to name pages and parts of pages.
hidden field A form field that is invisible to a user but supplies data to a form handler. Each hidden field is implemented as a name-value pair. When a form is submitted by a user, its hidden fields are passed to the form-handler along with name-value pairs for each visible form field.
hidden folder A folder in a FrontPage web that has a name beginning with an underscore character, as in _hidden. By default, pages and files in hidden folders cannot be viewed in a Web browser.
home page The starting point for a Web site. It is the page that is retrieved and displayed by default when a user visits the Web site. The default home-page name for a server depends on the server’s configuration. On many Web servers it is index.html or default.htm. Some Web servers support multiple home pages.
horizontal line A horizontal graphic element on a Web page often used to separate sections of the page.
host See server.
host name See network location.
hotspot A graphically defined area in an image that contains a hyperlink. An image with hotspots is called an image map. In Web browsers, hotspots are invisible. Users can tell that a hotspot is present by the changing appearance of the pointer.
hover button An animated button on a Web page that is activated when the mouse pointer is moved over the button or when the button is clicked.
HTIMAGE.EXE The CERN image map dispatcher. This program handles server-side image maps when the image map style is set to “CERN.”
HTML (HyperText Markup Language). The standard language for describing the contents and appearance of pages on the World Wide Web. The FrontPage Page Editor reads and writes HTML files. Knowledge of the HTML language is not required to use FrontPage.
HTML attribute A name-value pair used within an HTML tag to assign additional properties to an object being defined. FrontPage assigns some attributes automatically when you create an object such as a paragraph or image map. You can assign other attributes by editing the Properties dialog box.
HTML character encoding A standard table which associates a numeric index with each character in a character set. The table is used when you create a Web page for use in a specific language. Also called code page.
HTML Markup A FrontPage component that is replaced with any arbitrary text you supply. This text is substituted for the FrontPage component when the page is saved to the server as HTML. Use HTML Markup to insert non-standard HTML commands on a page.
HTML tag A symbol used in HTML to identify a page element’s type, format, and appearance. The FrontPage Editor automatically creates HTML tags to represent each element on a page.
HTML View The view in the FrontPage Editor that displays a page’s HTML. You can directly edit a page’s HTML in this view.
HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) The Internet protocol that allows World Wide Web browsers to retrieve information from servers.
hyperlink A pointer from text or from an image map to a page or other type of file on the World Wide Web. On Web pages, hyperlinks are the primary way to navigate between pages and among Web sites.
Hyperlink Status View A view in the FrontPage Explorer that graphically shows the status of the hyperlinks in your FrontPage web. The list includes both internal and external hyperlinks, and graphically indicates whether the hyperlinks have been verified or whether they are broken. Views in the FrontPage Explorer provide different ways of looking at the information in your FrontPage web, so that you can effectively manage your site.
Hyperlinks Pane In the FrontPage Explorer’s Hyperlinks view, the right portion of the screen, which shows the hyperlinks to the selected page and from the selected page in the All Pages pane.
Hyperlinks View A view in the FrontPage Explorer that graphically shows the hyperlinks among pages and other files in your FrontPage web along with the hyperlinks from your FrontPage web to other World Wide Web sites. Views in the FrontPage Explorer provide different ways of looking at the information in your FrontPage web, so that you can effectively manage your site.
hypertext Originally, any textual information on a computer containing jumps to other information. The hypertext jumps are called hyperlinks. On Web pages, hypertext is the primary way to navigate between pages and among Web sites. Hypertext on Web pages has been expanded to include hyperlinks from text and hyperlinks from image maps.
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