IT Jargon Explained

IT Jargon Explained H

Hard disk inside the computer, the hard disk stores permanent data.

Home page The first page that you see every time you connect to a Web site.

HTML HTML (HyperText Mark-up Language) is the computer language the Web is written in. If you don't know how to write the HTML code, there are inexpensive software packages which will do all or most of the coding for you, behind the scenes. The results are not as impressive as professionally designed pages but could be perfectly adequate for your business.

Hyperlink A connection linking different pieces of information on the Web. They appear as hot spots on a Web page in the shape of highlighted words or images. By clicking on the hyperlink, the reader can jump to another Web page.