Absolute Path
The complete path to a resource, independent of the location of the visited page.

ACDSee
Software for viewing, archiving and editing sound, video and picture files.

Acrobat Reader
Plug-in from Adobe. It reads documents in PDF format on any platform.

ActiveX
Software components from Microsoft. They enable sound, Java applets and animations to be integrated in a Web page.

After Effects
Software for creating special effects, published by Adobe.

AIFF or AIF
Audio file formats on the Macintosh platform.

Alias
A generic name used to identify a mail account.

Alignment
Positioning of lines in a text or a paragraph: on the left, on the right, centred or justified.

Anchor
In a HTML page content, an area which is the source or destination of a hypertext link.

Animated GIF
A small animation based on successively displayed GIF images.

Anonymous FTP
Public file servers that can be accessed by means of anonymous login and using an email address as the password.

Apache
The most widely available HTTP server on the Internet. It supports the PERL and PHP languages.

Applet
A small program written in Java and included in a HTML page. It is independent of the operating system on which it runs. An applet can be used to display scrolling text in a specific area, or animations.

ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange. A standard character-coding scheme used by most computers to display letters, digits and special characters.

ASP
Active Server Pages. A specification that enables Web pages to be dynamically created using HTML, scripts, and reusable ActiveX server components.

Attribute
The properties of a HTML tag.

AU
A sound file format on Sun systems.

Audience Measurement
A free online service that analyses by means of marks how often your pages are visited and can produce a daily or monthly report with following values: number of visited pages, browsing time, users' browser version, operating system, country of origin, referrer's URL, etc.

Audience Measurement Mark
A mark placed on your pages by an online service offering audience measurement. The mark can be invisible or display the service supplier's logo.