Web design terminology beginning with the letter H

Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)

HTML is the basic mark-up language of the web. All the pages that are viewed on web sites use HTML to some degree. HTML is constantly updated and nowadays web sites tend to contain a mixture of a number of languages, including DHTML, javascript, CSS and, increasingly, Flash.

Home page

The home page of a web site is the root, top-most , or the first page that is generally viewable.

Host (webhost)

A web-host is a company that hosts web sites. They may offer a number of services, including shared hosting – where a number of web sites sit on one web server, or dedicated web hosting – where a computer (or many computers) serve just one web site.

See also: Different types of web hosting

Hypertext

A hypertext document is a formatted file that contains links to other documents. Obviously an html web pages is a classic type of hypertext document.