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page A single document on a Web site written in HTML language. You can use the FrontPage Editor to create and modify pages without having to learn HTML.
page template A pre-designed but generic Web page you can use to create new custom pages. Some of FrontPage’s page templates provide typical page content, while others provide common page layouts.
page title A text string identifying a page. The page title is displayed in the FrontPage Explorer and is used by many FrontPage Editor and FrontPage Explorer commands.
paragraph style In the FrontPage Editor, the paragraph style specifies the type of font to use in a paragraph, the font’s size, and other attributes related to text on a page. Paragraph style also specifies whether to use bullets and numbering and controls indentation and line spacing.
parent page A page in a FrontPage web that is part of the navigation structure of a FrontPage web and is linked to one or more pages called child pages. A child page is accessed from its parent page by following a link from a navigation bar on the parent page. See also navigation bar, peer page.
password A string of characters that allows a user access to an Internet service, if the service requires it.
path The portion of a URL that identifies the folders containing a file. For example, in the URL http://my.web.site/hello/world/greetings.htm, the path is /hello/world/.
PCT (Personal Communications Technology) An enhanced version of Secure Socket Layer. See also Secure Socket Layer.
PCX A graphical file format that compresses its image data with RLE-type compression, used by early versions of Windows Paintbrush. FrontPage can import PCX files.
peer pages A set of pages that are part of the navigational structure of a FrontPage web and share a common parent page. See also FrontPage web structure.
plug-in One of a set of software modules that integrate into Web browsers to offer a range of interactive and multimedia capabilities.
Popup Menu A FrontPage component that implements a popup menu on the Web page. Each item on the popup menu is a hyperlink. Using this popup menu, users can navigate the FrontPage web. You can create a Popup Menu in the FrontPage Editor.
port One of the network input/output channels of a computer running TCP/IP. On the World Wide Web, port usually refers to the port number a server is running on. A single computer can have many Web servers running on it, but only one server can be running on each port. The default port for Web servers is 80.
PPP (Point to Point Protocol) An Internet standard for transmitting data over serial links between computers.
progressive JPEG An enhancement to the JPEG image format specification that allows an image to be gradually displayed in a Web browser, showing increasingly detailed versions of the entire image until all of the data has finished downloading. While this is similar to interlaced GIF images, progressive JPEG images can retain the high quality of 24-bit color and offer the same efficient compression as standard JPEG. See also JPEG.
properties The characteristics of an item in a FrontPage web, such as the title and URL of a FrontPage web or the name and initial value of a form field. You can also specify properties for page elements such as tables, images, and scrolling marquees.
protocol A method of accessing a document or service over the Internet, such as File Transfer Protocol (FTP) or HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Also called type.
proxy server An Internet server that acts as a firewall, mediating traffic between a protected network and the Internet. See also firewall.
publish The process of making your FrontPage web public on the World Wide Web or an intranet. You publish your FrontPage web using the FrontPage Explorer.
push button A form field that lets a user submit a form or reset a form to its initial state.
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