Internet Glossary - F
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FFA
Abbreviation for "Free For All". FFA web pages contain a collection
of indiscriminate, often unrelated, links to other web sites. FFA links
are commonly used to artificially boost link popularity and are considered
spam by all major search engines. Often the FFA service requires the submitter
to give an e-mail address, to which they send spam e-mail messages.
Frames
An extension to HTML invented by Netscape. Frames enable a web designer
to break the main window of the browser into seperate panes or frames
that can all be controlled seperately by the web designer. Although frames
can be very useful, particulary for holding menus and controls, they can
also be very confusing. For example, there is only one location bar in
a browser, but if there are three web pages being displayed, what location
should it show? It shows the location of the frameset, which defines the
frames. Search engines don't handle well with framed web sites.
FrontPage Extentions
FrontPage extentions are a set of server-side scripts and programs which
enable users of Microsoft FrontPage to use its special components (called
Web Bots). The extensions can be installed on Microsoft's Internet Information
Services (IIS) and Windows web servers as well as Linux and UNIX web servers.
With NumaTek
web hosting, it takes one click from your CPanel to setup FrontPage
extensions. It's that easy!
FTP Account
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the most popular way of uploading files
from one computer to another. With the FTP account you will login to our
server and be able to copy files from your local hard drive to our server
so you can view those files from the web.
