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For application-specific terms, refer to the
help feature of that application.


Hexadecimal

Web colors are specified in hexadecimal numbers. Hexadecimal is a base 16 system, which consists
of the numbers 0 to 9 and the letters A to F.


Hits

Requests for HTML files. A web
page with three graphic images will result in four hits: one for the
HTML file and one for each of the graphic image files. While a hit is
a meaningful measure of how much traffic a server handles, it can be a
misleading indicator of how many pages are being looked at.

Home
Page


The intended first page of a website
that a visitor views. See Website, Splash
Page.

Hosting


The act of housing, serving, and
maintaining a website. It can be on-site at the client's business or
off-site at a co-locating center. See Co-locating,
Remote Hosting.

Hotspot


An area of an image map that contains
a link to another HTML document. See Image
Map.

HTML


HyperText Markup Language. The primary language used to create web
pages. A defining feature of HTML is its inclusion of tags that
create hyperlinks to other documents on the Internet. It is based on
SGML. See Hyperlink, Markup,
SGML, Website, XHTML.

HTML Conversion Utilities


Software that generates HTML quickly
but can have trouble managing graphics and scripts. See HTML
Editors, WYSIWYG Editors.

HTML
Editors



Software that is used to write HTML
that provides tools to insert tags, check syntax, and search for code.
There are two types: Simple and WYSIWYG. See WYSIWYG
Editors, HTML
Conversion Utilities.


HTTP


HyperText Transfer Protocol. A set of
rules for exchanging files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and
other multimedia) on the World Wide Web.
See Protocol.

Hyperlink

An element in an HTML document that
links to another place in the same document or to an entirely
different document. Typically, you click on the hyperlink to follow
it. Hyperlinks are the most essential ingredient of all hypertext
systems, including the World Wide Web. See Anchor
Tag, Hypertext,
World Wide Web, HTML, Link.
Hypertext

An electronic information structure
through which you navigate via hyperlinks. The images or text that you
select to view associated objects are called hyperlinks. See Hyperlink.