F requently A sked Q uestions. Usually a simple page full of questions and answers that the author has guessed will help the reader understand their product better. A type of graphics file originally defined by CompuServe and now found all over the net. When you save a picture file as a .gif file the process compresses the image file to a much smaller size than the original which means it will transport over the phone lines a lot quicker. The primary Web page for a town, company or an individual.
Home pages link visitors to other pages related to the site.
P rotocol, which is the way World Wide Web pages are transferred over the Net. A system of writing and displaying text that enables the text to be linked in multiple ways. It makes information available at several levels of detail, and it allows links to related documents. Hypermedia can be pictures, sounds, videos, you name it, you can make a link out of it. A device that lets your computer talk on the phone.