The Webmaster's Lexicon: L
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Computer languages are the means by which people express instructions to
computers; usually in text. There are various kinds, e.g. 'markup languages'
for expressing document or data structure, such as HTML or XML; or
'programming languages' such as Java or Perl, for expressing algorithms.
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| Layout
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Placement of text, images, and other media, and whitespace, on a web page.
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| Link
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Synonym for hyperlink, or
an HTML tag used in the Head area of a document to
specify relationships of this document with others.
The anchor tag (<A>) is used to define both anchors
and links. A link is a directive to a browser: when a user selects a
link a new page is loaded.
Some people call a link a hotlink or hyperlink.
An external link leads to a page other than the current one;
an internal link leads elsewhere on the current page.
Some people refer to relative and absolute links;
these adjectives are more properly applied to a URL.
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| Localtime
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Perl function that converts UNIX time into a record or string
using the local time of the system.
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| Location
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Location is about locating or discovering information on the web,
and includes robots, surfing, indexing, searching, navigation, classification,
reference catalogs, resource discovery, information systems, addressing,
e.g. URLs (Uniform Resource Locator), maximising your own 'findability'
(e.g. site promotion), ..etc.. and other concepts associated with resource discovery.
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| Location
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The address of a Web page.
If the value is a full URL, the server returns a "redirect" to the
client to retrieve the specified object directly.
Location: http://WWW.Stars.com/
If you want to reference another file on your own server,
you should output a partial URL.
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