The Webmaster's Lexicon: F

Face	The design of a set of displayed characters, and, in HTML, an attribute of the font tag which redefines the default type font.
FAQ	Frequently Asked Questions. A collection of common questions and answers about a topic, hardware, software, newsgroup, etc., generally developed and maintained by people who use it.
Font	A set of characters in the same face. For example, Times Roman is a typeface, italic Times Roman is a font; bold Times Roman is a different font. While font selection is typically considered very important to graphic design, browser users can override the default font when displaying a web page. Also, graphic designers for the web have no way of knowing what fonts browser users have on their machines, though some fonts (Times Roman, Courier and Helvetica) are fairly standard across platforms.
Form	A set of HTML tags used to create interactive fields on a Web page. These elements let users interact with scripts to collect data.
Form data set	A sequence of name/value pairs used to collect data from forms. The name is assigned by the HTML document and the value is given by a user. All form elements have NAME and VALUE attributes.
Forum	Forum is a broad term for online discussion groups. This can take the shape of mailing lists, web site message boards, bulletin boards or chat rooms.
Fragment identifier	The portion of an HREF attribute value following the # character which refers to a named anchor.
Frame	An HTML tag introduced by Netscape to allow partitioning of the browser window into independent document display areas.
FTP	File Transfer Protocol. A way to exchange files with other sites on the Internet.
Function	A type of procedure that performs a specific task amd returns a value in programming languages.