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Hallway pages: Most search engines which scour the Internet for new WebPages to add to their database give better rankings to pages they "found" than pages that were submitted on the "Add URL" page. Hallway pages are basically a list of links to all the pages in a website that the designer wants indexed by search engines. By submitting the Hallway page, rather than the index page, the website is likely to be indexed faster, more completely, and get better rankings.

Hidden input tags: Form tags which visitors will not see when visiting your site. Some search engines index them. For example: <input type="hidden" name="Description" value="Your page description here.">

Hits: Hits are simply requests for files from visitors. Each HTML document and graphic file counts as a separate hit, so they aren't an accurate representation of the number of different visitors to your site, but sometimes they're all you've got.

Home page: The main or entrance page to a website. The page visitors are sent to when they type in your URL without adding a specific page name. Home pages are usually named index.html, home.html, or default.html. (I recommend index.html, since all hosts support that name.)

Host: Your Internet service provider host is the computer you connect to for Internet access. Your website host is the computer where your website files are located, which allows visitors access from the Internet.

HTML: "Hypertext Markup Language." HTML is a simple programming language everyone uses to author his or her webpage. (Programs which claim to avoid the necessity of learning it translate your document into HTML.)

Http: Hypertext transport protocol. The language used to move web pages across the World Wide Web.

Hypertext: A term used to describe associative writing, as opposed to linear (narrative) writing. People follow links in the text to read it their way, rather than how the author wrote it. Web pages are hypertext, and so are many CD-ROMs and computerized help systems.