Web design terminology beginning with the letter U

Unix

An extremely stable and efficient computer operating system that is used extensively on web servers. Traditionally unix-based operating systems were extremely complex to use and were generally implemented only by experts. The recent implementation of the Macintosh operating system – OS X – has combined the unix-based technology, with a highly usable Guided user interface (GUI).

An open source development of Unix, called Linux, is freely available in a number of different distributions.

Upload

To copy files onto a remote server. For example a web designer will upload their designed web pages onto a web server using an FTP client.

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

The method of specifying the location of a file, or source of information, on the internet. For example, the URL of this page is http://www.designtalkboard.com/glossary/web/u-glossary.php