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• wallpaper
  A graphic that appears as the background on the Windows desktop and other environments.
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• web
  Part of the internet, the web is comprised of all the websites which are accessed via the internet.
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• web authoring software
  Software that facilitates designing websites.
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• web authoring tool
  Software that facilitates designing websites.
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• web developer
  A person who creates or develops websites.
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• web master
  A person who manages a website. They may also be the website developer.
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• web page
  A web page is a unit of information from a website, viewed on screen. Web pages are linked to form a website.
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• web server
  A web server provides internet pages for other computers through the internet.
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• web site
  A linked series of web pages, stored at a specific location.
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• web statistics
  Statistics showing information about a website, e.g. number of site visitors, which pages they looked at, which country they came from.
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• web-based email
  When emails are stored and read on the email server, rather than being downloaded to the user's computer.
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• web-safe colours
  The 216 colours which display consistently on any colour computer monitor or web browser.
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• webcam
  A camera linked to a computer and to the internet. A live picture is uploaded from the camera to the internet every few seconds, or even streamed continuously. Other web cams will upload images less frequently, perhaps once a hour. The image can then be viewed from a web page.
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• webcasting
  The delivery of live online presentations or broadcasts over the internet.
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• WHILE loop
  In programming, a condition controlled loop which repeats a sequence of commands WHILE a particular condition is true.
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• white space
  The blank areas on a page.
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• wide area network (WAN)
  A network in which the computers are geographically remote.
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• width
  The size from left to right, e.g. the width of a page, or the width of a cell in a spreadsheet.
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• wifi
  Wireless fidelity. Wifi is a wireless networking protocol based on the 802.11 standards. It is used as an alternative to a wired LAN.
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• Wiki
  A website where users can add and edit content including content added by other users.