Web Glossary - C
- Cable Internet
- A broadband Internet connection that uses a cable TV line.
Related Terms: Broadband
- Cache
- A storage location on your computer that keeps a copy of web pages you have visited so you can use the BACK and FORWARD buttons. When you return to a web page, Navigator opens from the cache instead of the Web, which makes it load faster.
Related Terms: Browser
- CD-R (Compact Disk-Recordable)
- A data storage format that allow the user to record content on to a blank compact disk.
Related Terms: CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory)
- CD-ROM (Compact Disk-Read Only Memory)
- A data storage format. Data is stored on an optical disk from which may only be read.
Related Terms: CD-R (Compact Disk-Recordable)
- CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
- A set of rules that describe how a web server communicates with another piece of software (the CGI program). Any piece of software can be a CGI program if it handles input and output according to the CGI standard.
Related Terms: CGI-BIN
- CGI-BIN
- The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGI programs, sometimes referred to as binaries, are stored.
Related Terms: Binary, CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
- Channel
- A channel is a web site designed to deliver content from the Internet to you computer. You don't have to subscribe to view the content, but with channels the content provider can suggest a schedule for your subscription, or you can customize your own.
- Chat
- Chat is a term used to describe real-time conferencing. IRC, WebChat, Prodigy, and AOL chat rooms are all examples of chat.
- Client/Server
- Computer technology that separates computers and their users into two categories: clients and servers. When you want information from a computer on the Internet, you are a client. The computer that delivers the information is the server. A server stores information and makes it available to any authorized client who requests the information.
- CMS (Content Management System)
- A system for creating and updating information stored in a database for a website.
- Compression
- A method of making a file or datastream smaller so it can be transfered over the Internet faster and use less space on a disk.
Related Terms: Zip
- Context Menu
- Also called shortcut menu, it is the menu that appears when you hold down the mouse button. The context menu provides you with additional commands. The commands available will reflect the position of the mouse at the time.
- Cookie
- A piece of information sent by a web server to your computer. The next time you connect to that web site, the server reads the cookie from your computer, identifying you and often basing the page it displays on the information (for example, account number or previous transactions) contained in the cookie.
Related Terms: Browser
- CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
- Style sheets give web authors the ability to attach styles to HTML elements. Style sheets can control margins, line spacing, the placement of text and graphics, colors, font faces, and font sizes. You use the STYLE element to include style information as part of an HTML document add apply the style to some or all of the text or you can create a separate document and attach it to one or more pages on your web site.
Related Terms: HTML (HyperText Markup Language), XHTML (eXtensible HypertText Markup Language)