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ID selector In a cascading style sheet style-definition (or style rule), a selector that is used to define a style for an individual page element, usually as an inline style. In FrontPage, you can define or apply ID selectors by clicking the Style button on the element's Properties dialog box, and then defining or applying the ID selector in the Style dialog box.
IIS (Internet Information Server) Microsoft’s high-performance, secure, and extensible Internet server based on Windows NT Server. IIS supports the World Wide Web, FTP, and gopher.
image A picture or graphics file that can be inserted on a Web page and displayed in a Web browser. FrontPage lets you import images in the following formats: GIF, JPEG (standard and progressive), BMP (Windows and OS/2), TIFF, TGA, RAS, EPS, PCX, and WMF. Imported images are converted to GIF format (for images containing up to 256 colors) or JPEG format (for images containing over 256 colors) when the page is saved to the current FrontPage web.
image alignment In FrontPage, the specification of how images and text are aligned with each other on a page. You specify image alignment in the FrontPage Editor.
image bullet Images used as the bullet characters in a bulleted list. The FrontPage Editor supports image bullets.
image form field A form field that displays an image in a form. By clicking the image, a user either submits or clears the form.
image map An image containing one or more invisible regions, called hotspots, which are assigned hyperlinks. Typically, an image map gives users visual cues about the information made available by clicking each part of the image. For example, a geographical map could be made into an image map by assigning hotspots to each region of interest on the map.
image toolbar The FrontPage Editor toolbar that contains commands to modify or enhance images. You also use the image toolbar to create image hotspots. See also hotspot.
IMAGEMAP.EXE The NCSA image map dispatcher. This program handles server-side image maps when the image map style is set to “NCSA.”
Include Page component A FrontPage component that is replaced with the contents of another page in the FrontPage web. This lets you update parts of many pages in one step.
initial page The page that is initially displayed in a frame when a user browses to a frames page containing the frame. In the FrontPage Editor you can assign the initial page to a frame. See also frames page.
inline image An image that is embedded in a line of text rather than in its own window. In FrontPage, images are inline by default.
inline style A method of applying cascading style sheet properties and values to an element on a page, such as a table, image, or ActiveX control. You can use this method even if the page is not linked to an external style sheet or does not contain an embedded style sheet. In FrontPage, you can create and apply an inline style by clicking the Style button on the element’s Properties dialog box, and then setting the inline style properties on the Style dialog box.
interlaced GIF A GIF image that is gradually displayed in a Web browser, showing increasingly detailed versions of the entire image until all of the data has finished downloading. See also GIF.
internal hyperlink A hyperlink to any page or file that is part of the current FrontPage web.
internal web A World Wide Web site created within an organization and accessible only to members of that organization on an intranet.
Internet The global computer network, composed of thousands of Wide Area Networks (WANs) and Local Area Networks (LANs) that uses TCP/IP to provide world-wide communications to homes, schools, businesses, and governments. The World Wide Web runs on the Internet.
Internet address See network location.
Internet Explorer The Microsoft Web browser for Windows 95, Windows NT, and Macintosh. When Internet Explorer is installed, FrontPage offers additional functionality, such as dynamic page and themes preview from within the FrontPage Editor. Internet Explorer version 3.0 offers ActiveX, Java, and plug-in support. Internet Explorer version 4.0 adds support for cascading style sheets, Dynamic HTML, and the Channel Definition Format (CDF).
Internet Information Server (IIS) Microsoft’s high-performance, secure, and extensible Internet server based on Windows NT Server. IIS supports the World Wide Web, FTP, and gopher.
intranet A computer network that is internal to an organization and supports Internet applications, especially the World Wide Web. Most intranets are configured so that their users can access the entire Internet without allowing users of the Internet access to the computers on the intranet. See also firewall.
IP (Internet Protocol) Internet software that divides data into packets for transmission over the Internet. Computers must run IP to communicate across the Internet. See also TCP.
IP address (Internet Protocol address) The standard way of identifying a computer that is connected to the Internet, much the way a telephone number identifies a telephone on a telephone network. The IP address is four numbers separated by periods, and each number is less than 256, for example, 192.200.44.69. Your Web server administrator or Internet Service Provider will assign your computer an IP address.
IP address mask (Internet Protocol address mask) A range of IP addresses defined so only computers with IP addresses within the range are allowed access to an Internet service. To mask a portion of the IP address, replace it with the asterisk wild card character (*). For example, 192.44.*.* represents every computer on the Internet with an IP address beginning with 192.44.
ISAPI (Internet Server Application Programming Interface) A Web server application-development interface, developed by Process Software and Microsoft Corporation, that can be used in place of CGI.
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