Web Authoring Software and Languages

Style

a guideline explaining how to format a segment of a Web page

Tag

indicates different structural parts of a Webpage or different formatting elements, such as a heading or a table

Tile

repeating the image in different segments in a background

Style sheet

used by Web designers to describe how documents should be presented on a screen

Attributes

combined with tags and further specifies the tag

Elements

different objects in a text document such as the title and body of a page

Markup Language

a coding system used to structure text files in a document translating it into a Web document

HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

a complex authoring language which converts text to a language so that one may display materials (text, graphics, video) on a Web page

Parser

a program used to confirm that all elements required to structure the document are present

Authoring Tool

software used in creating a Web document

Web Publishing

the process of using a Web browser to view a text document that is stored on someone else's computer

Markup/Encoding

the symbols or characters added to plain text in a document to indicate different attributes and elements

Closing Tag

PHP command that indicates to the browser that there is no more php script to be interpreted on the page

Opening Tag

PHP command that indicates to the browser that there is php script to be interpreted

Echo Command

PHP command that tells the browser what to display on the Web page