Glossary
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Host
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This is the term given to the company that actually puts your Website into cyberspace. Think of the Website as a newspaper advertisement a copywriter has produced for you. You then need to place that advertisement into a newspaper for it to be effective—that's the same as your Website host.
Like newspapers, there are some good hosts and some that could be a little better. The important aspects to know about your host are a) can they cope with the 'type' of site you have, b) will their system be able to cope with the number of visitors your site attracts, and c) do they provide back up service in case of problems?
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Hyperlink
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A (hyper)link is a bit of text on a Web Page that, when clicked on, takes you to another Web Page or Website
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Search Engine
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A search engine is a computer that reviews (and ranks in an order) the content of Websites. If a person enters 'golf' into a search engine, that person will be shown a list of sites to visit that contain the word golf. As an example, Yahoo! (the most popular search engine on the Internet) has 2,066,797 Web pages to choose from when 'golf' is searched for.
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