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WAIS (Wide Area Information Service) Supports searching over the Internet.
WAN (Wide Area Network) A computer network that spans a long distance and uses specialized computers to connect smaller networks.
washout An image editing effect available in the FrontPage Editor. Applying the Washout tool to an image file creates a low-resolution, high-contrast version of the image. A washed-out image can be used as a watermarked background on your pages, without the need to make manual resolution, color, and contrast adjustments in an image editing program.
watermark An image that appears on the backgrounds of pages in a Web site to decorate and identify the pages, but which does not scroll as the page scrolls. Not all Web browsers support watermarks.
Web browser A client application that fetches and displays Web pages and other World Wide Web resources to the user. FrontPage includes Microsoft Internet Explorer, a popular Web browser.
WebBot component A dynamic object on a page that is evaluated and executed when an author saves the page or, in some cases, when a user browses to the page. Most WebBot components generate HTML. Many built-in FrontPage components, such as Search Forms, Banner Ad Manager, and Save Results Form Handlers, are implemented as WebBot components. The FrontPage Software Developer’s Kit (SDK) contains instructions for adding custom WebBot components to the FrontPage Editor.
WebBot component cursor In the FrontPage Editor, the robot-shaped cursor that is displayed when you move the FrontPage cursor over an area of a page containing a FrontPage component. See also WebBot component.
Wizard A FrontPage program that creates FrontPage webs or Web pages, based on choices the user selects in the wizard’s input panels.
WMF (Windows Meta File) A vector graphics format for Windows-compatible computers used mostly for word processing clip art.
World Wide Web The graphical Internet hypertext service that uses the HTTP protocol to retrieve Web pages and other resources from Web servers. Pages on the World Wide Web usually contain hyperlinks to other pages, documents, and files.
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get). An editing interface in which a file being created is displayed as it will appear to an end-user. The FrontPage Editor is a WYSIWYG editor.
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