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Definitions Web Related Terminology defined below. 7 Additional Resources Articles: | Articles | Top of Page | Definition: FAQ FAQ: A list of frequently asked questions and their answers about a given subject. Vendors often display them on their Web sites for use as troubleshooting guidelines. FAQs are widely used to help people solve problems with the hardware and software they purchased. Definition: Browser Browser: The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. The home page is an index to other pages on that site that you can jump to by clicking an underlined hyperlink or an icon. Links on that site may take you to other related sites. Definition: CMS CMS: A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organizing and facilitating collaborative creation of documents and other content. A content management system is frequently a web application used for managing websites and web content. Definition: URL URL: An Internet address (for example, http://www.computerlanguage.com/php/), usually consisting of the access protocol (http), the domain name (www.computerlanguage.com), and optionally the path to a file or resource residing on that server (php). Definition: CSS CSS: Cascading Style Sheets. Language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted. Definition: HTML HTML: Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet's World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating World Wide Web pages. Definition: UNIX UNIX: A computer operating system. UNIX is designed to be used by many people at the same time and has TCP/IP built-in. It is the most common operating system for servers on the Internet.