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This glossary of terms is provided to explain terms that may be new to you regarding the Internet or MyFamily.com. To help you navigate the glossary, you can click on the letter below that corresponds with the first letter of the term you are looking for, or you can scroll through the glossary using the scroll bar located on the right of the screen.
Active Site Members: Have read-only access to the entire site. Additionally, they can add their own news articles, events, photos, sound bites, and video clips to the site. However, they can only edit and delete their own material not that added by other users.
Administrator: The site administrator is responsible for your personal MyFamily.com web site and is generally the person who established the site. The site administrator is ultimately liable for all content displayed on the site and they have the ability to edit, delete and maintain any part of the site. They can assign a different member as the site administrator at any time and they are responsible for any applicable fees.
Advertising-supported: In order to keep your web site free of charge MyFamily.com solicits family-oriented businesses to purchase advertising space on individual MyFamily.com web sites. For a small fee you can elect to not have advertising display on your site.
Ancestry.com: The parent company behind MyFamily.com. Ancestry.com is the largest genealogy-related site on the Internet.
Author: The person submitting a news item, calendar event, photo, or sound byte is termed the author of the entry. They, along with the administrator, are the only ones with the rights to delete or edit a submitted item.
Browser: A web browser is the software program you use to navigate the Internet. Microsoft Explorer and Netscape are the two most popular browsers currently on the market. The way your site is displayed (i.e. fonts, colors, spacing) depends partly on the browser you use.
Button: A button is a graphic on a web page which, when "clicked," registers a decision by the user. Some of the common uses of buttons allow users to begin actions, stop, detour, count, sort, change, or confirm. Some of the more common types of buttons that you may encounter are:
Regular Button: Click on the button to select it.
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Download: This is the common term used when you copy a file from the Internet to your computer.
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Home page: The main page of a web site. All other pages on your web site will link from this page. When a guest visits your site they will start with your home page and then link to other areas of interest.
Inactive Site Members: Usually young children, "family members" are listed in the address book with pertinent information, but do not have access to actually log in to the site.
Internet: The Internet is a series of computers linked together through wires that provide many different services. Some of the more dominate parts of the Internet include:
World Wide Web (WWW): This is the fastest growing part of the Internet. Your personal MyFamily.com web site is part of the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web is sometimes referred to as the information highway.
Intranet: An Intranet is a limited network of computers linked together for a common purpose and shared interests. Intranet's require a username and password before you can access them and they can be part of the Internet but don't have to be accessible over the Internet. Your personal MyFamily.com web site is an Intranet that is delivered over the Internet.
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Log in: You log in when you enter an area on the Internet that requires a username and password. You will begin each MyFamily.com session by logging in because you need to validate your user name and password before you can have access to site.
Menu Bar: Menu bars are a group of buttons or words the provide you short cuts to frequently used features of the software package you are using or web site you are navigating. Menu bars are usually located at the top of the screen and provide an easy way for you to navigate the web site or the software you are using.
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On-line: When you connect to the Internet you go on-line.
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Secure: In Internet terms a secure server generally refers to a server that receives sensitive data, like credit cards numbers, in a manner that no one can access them except the intended parties. Because your personal MyFamily.com web site is your own Intranet all users are required to enter an authentic user name and password before entering the site allowing only those that you authorize to access your site.
Server: A centralized computer which houses and serves data and resources to those on a network. The Internet is a series of servers that allow you to access all types of information from.
Sound Byte: Short segments of recorded audio, which can be stored and accessed, like a text document. Your computer needs an audio board and speakers in order for you to hear a sound byte.
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Upload: When you upload information you transfer the information from your computer to the Internet. You have the ability to upload pictures, text files, sound bytes, and movie clips to your personal MyFamily.com web site.
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Web Site: A specific address on the World Wide Web. For example, the web address for MyFamily.com is www.myfamily.com. Entering this address in your web browsers address field will take you to MyFamily.com's web site.
World Wide Web: The World Wide Web (WWW) is the part of the Internet that houses millions of individual sites on every topic imaginable on the Internet. This is the fastest growing part of the Internet.
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