User Guide

324 Glossary
client
A computer that is requesting something from a server; for example, a computer that
is asking for the results of a database query.
code template
User-defined text that is inserted by typing a user-defined keyword. HomeSite+ for
Dreamweaver MX has a few pre-set code templates; for example, typing “scriptj”
inserts a JavaScript block.
CSS
Cascading Style Sheets. Defines formatting “styles” for page elements such as
paragraphs and tables. Styles are usually defined in a separate file (or style sheet),
with Web pages referencing this file. Alternatively, you can embed styles in a Web
page by creating a
<style>...</style> block. Embedded styles affect the display of
the tags that are between the start and end
<style> tags.
data source
Entry point for database operations.
deployment
Uploading files to a location that others can access. For example, your relatives
across the country cannot see the online photo album that you created on your
computer until you deploy the files to a Web server. You can also deploy to an
intranet or extranet, so that only a select group of people have access. Many
companies have their own intranet Web site, and most business-to-business
e-commerce Web sites are extranets, accessible only by paying member companies.
domain name
Name that locates an organization or other entity on the Internet; for example,
www.macromedia.com. The domain name consists of three parts: the host server
name (www); the name describing the organization or entity (macromedia); and the
type of domain (.com). Domains can be commercial (.com), non-profit (.org),
Internet Service Providers (.net), four-year colleges or universities (.edu), U.S.
government (.gov), U.S. military (.mil), or non-U.S. countries (fr for France, .de for
Germany, and so on).
DTD
Document Type Definition. Specification that defines the rules of a Standard
Generalized Markup Language (SGML) language; for example, its tags and required
attributes and allowed values for its tags. A DTD complies to the rules of SGML, and
enables an SGML compiler to correctly handle documents of the type it defines.
encoding
Format that defines how the values of certain types are represented, in terms of bits.
Examples: American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), a 7-bit
character set; and Unicode, a 16-bit character set.