Web Definitions

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). A style sheet mechanism that has been specifically developed for Web page designers and users. Style sheets describe how documents are presented on screens, in print, and even in spoken voice. A style sheet is made up of rules that tell a browser how to present a document.

At Darma Design we have largely abandoned HTML in favor of CSS which is, in our opinion, far superior to HTML. CSS allows far more control over web page design and provides methods for doing many things that are impossible with HTML.

This website was built almost entirely with CSS and with very little HTML.

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Domain Names are an organization's unique names on the Internet. As of early 2001, there were more than 20 million registered domain names. The name chosen by the organization combined with a top level domain (TLD) makes up the Internet domain name. For example, darma.com is the domain name for our parent company.

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A Font is a design for a set of characters. A font is the combination of typeface and other qualities, such as size, pitch, and spacing.

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Web Hosting is placing a customer's website on a commercial web server so that the site can be viewed on the Internet.

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HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language and is one of the languages of the web.

NOTE: Darma Design has largely abandoned HTML in favor of CSS (see definition above) which is much better for developing web pages. CSS allows far more control over web design and is now favored by many corporate websites.

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Javascript - A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. Javascript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content.

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Post Office Protocol 3 - A standard mail server commonly used on the Internet. It provides a message store that holds incoming e-mail until users log on and download it. POP3 is a simple system with little selectivity. All pending messages and attachments are downloaded at the same time. POP3 uses the SMTP messaging protocol.

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Uniform Resource Locator - The address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web. darma.com for example.

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