The Enterprise and Economic Development Glossary a resource of the .network library

navigation bar:

... linked graphic elements organized across a .network webpage that help you move around with some sense of where you are and where you are headed. The following example shows what the basic bar looks like. It is actually made up of several graphic elements as linked buttons. They are linked to where you can see additional buttons added. There are three file-folder graphics, each showing initials of a .network website and linked for access to it. One button is linked to an explanation of the .network search promise.

file folder graphic:

... a graphic element representing a .network website. Three are shown attached to the .network navigation bar (page up for information about the basic navigation bar).

FAQ: What do initials overlaying file-folder-buttons stand for? answer

related: Search Promise; 3 Websites Work Together; Helpguide for Searchers

linked button:

... a graphic element published on a webpage and hyperlinked so that you can point and click, thus virtually getting the same response that you would by using a push button.

An image is something rendered in a likeness. In other words, its something that can be done by using a computer with graphics capabilities. The expression, a graphic, has the same meaning as saying ... a image. Graphic is put into use here as a noun and related to a things that you see as pictures on webpages. CLICK HERE for an answer to the question of what an image is in one online article which that explains basic computer graphics technology.

Linked buttons as defined here don't necessarily look like switches but using the expression or the term linked graphics is way of describing images with a application that ... takes advantage of the computer's graphics capabilities. The quote is from Webopedia's definition of graphical user interface.

The .network logo shown below is a linked button that doesn't appear as a image of a push button. You can, however, virtually push it to make something happen by using a pointing device.

Selecting the logo moves you on to a definition of the Dot Network graphic. The document to which the logo is linked pictures and defines other images that The Network uses as linked buttons for navigation—having a sense of where you are and where you are headed.

related: hyperlink; point and click; graphics; disk image

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