Halftone: in traditional publishing,
a continuous-tone image photographed through a
screen in order to create small dots of varying
sizes that can be reproduced on a printing press.
Digital halftones are produced by sampling a continuous-tone
image and assigning different numbers of dots,
which simulate different sized dots, for the same
effect.
Halftone screen: in traditional
publishing, the screen through which a continuous-tone image is photographed, measured in lines per
inch. Although digital halftones are not actually
photographed through a screen, the term is still
used to describe the size of the dots; the larger
the dots (fewer lines per inch), the more grainy
the image. Special screens can be used for special
effects.
Hang indent alignment: type
set so that the first line is flush left and
subsequent lines are indented.
Hard hyphen: a non breaking
hyphen, used when the two parts of the hyphenated
word should not be separated. As opposed to a
soft (or normal) hyphen, on which the word-wrapping function of a program will break a line.
Hard return: a return created
by the Return or Enter key, as opposed to a word-wrap,
or soft return, which will adjust according to
the character count and column width.
Head, Heading or Headline:
a line or lines of copy set in a larger face
than the body copy. Usually a title.
Host: The specific name of
a machine residing within a domain. For example,
www is the name of a machine inside the znet.com
domain, its fully qualified host name being www.znet.com.
Please note that www does not necessarily specify
a protocol. By convention, web servers are given
the name www but any legal domain name will do.
Furthermore, a server running web services may
be running any number of other daemons, such
as FTP and SMTP.
HTML: Hyper Text Markup Language.
A suite of tags and a specialized syntax used
for formatting a document and creating links
to other documents for use on a HTTP server.
HTML files usually have the extension .htm or
.html. This document, for instance, was created
using HTML.
HTTP: Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.
The basic protocol for the World
Wide Web allowing
for systems, documents and files to be linked
together via URLs and other instructions given
in an HTML document.
Hyperbole: Obvious and intentional
exaggeration; an extravagant statement of figure
of speech not intended to be taken literally,
as "to wait an eternity." (Websters,
p. 940)
Hyphenation zone: For ragged-right text, an arbitrary zone about 1/5 to 1/10 of
the length of the line; if a long word is not
hyphenated and leaves a gap within that zone,
discretionary
hyphens are used to fill the line.
I
ICR: Interest Creating Remark.
A statement that inspires curiousity/interest.
Such as 'Could your business use a great looking,
cost effective website?'
Image area: the area on a
page within which copy is positioned; determined
by the margins.
Internet: A vast network
of networks, subnets, and computers using the
TCP/IP suite of protocols. Internet is not
a generic name for all internets (interconnected
networks), as others may be based on other
protocols. The word Internet, when referring
to the world-wide TCP/IP-based network, is
a proper noun and should be capitalized.
Interactive: Procedural environments
(the computer's ability to execute a series
of rules) that induce the behavior of the interactor
(person participating). The computer is responsive
to the input of the interactor (reacts to prompts
that the interactor provides based on a given
set of rules) (Murray, pp. 71-74).
IP Address: A numerical address
specified in four parts, separated by dots
(periods) and each part having a number in
the range of 0 to 255, the same range as for
a byte. Each IP address, then, is four bytes
long. Every machine on the Internet must have
an IP address. An example is sj.znet.com's
IP address of 207.167.80.19. A machine, however,
does not have to have a host or domain name.
ISP: Internet Service Provider.
A company providing complete Internet access
to the public, most often through modem connections.
Virtually every Internet protocol and service
is available in an open environment. This differs
from Commercial Online Services, such as America
Online, CompuServe and Prodigy, in that those
services provide access to a closed network
of computers running its own proprietary software.
However, those companies are now providing
some Internet access, although content is sometimes
restricted.
Italic: any slanted or leaning
letter designed to complement or be compatible
with a companion roman
typeface.
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