Spark Lesson 5 Vocab

A set of buttons or images in a row or column that serves as a control point to link the user to sections on a website

• navigation bar

• favorite/bookmark

• browser tabs

• hyperlink

Microsoft's term for bookmarked web pages, popularized in the Internet Explorer browser

• Navigation bar

• favorite/bookmark

• browser tabs

• hyperlink

A document that serves as a starting point on a website.  Typically contains hypertext and navigation buttons that allows the user to navigate the site by clicking them with a mouse and invoking hyperlinks to other pages or sites

• favorite

• home page

• web browser

• IP address

Updates the currently displayed webpages

• uploading

• back button

• refresh button

• navigation bar

An icon, typically displaying an arrow pointing to the left, that may be selected in order to return to the previous page or screen

• uploading

• back button

• refresh button

• navigation bar

Transfer data from one computer to another, typically to one that is larger or remote from the user or functioning as a server

• uploading

• downloading

• refresh button

• back button

Copy data from one computer system to another, typically over the Internet

• uploading

• downloading

• refresh button

• back button

Allow users to surf and view multiple pages by loading the web sites into tabbed sections of one page, rather than multiple pages

• web browser

• World Wide Web

• Hyperlink

• Browser tabs

Software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web

• web browser

• hyperlink

• browser tabs

• domain name

A link from a hypertext file or document to another location or file, typically activated by clicking on a highlighted word or image on the screen

• ISP

• IP address

• hyperlink

• client