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Harmonized Sales Tax (HST)
A tax imposed in provinces where the federal Goods & Services Tax (GST) and the provincial sales tax (PST) have been combined into a single value-added sales tax. Provinces in which the HST applies are referred to as participating provinces. The HST ...
Hybrid Workforce
A hybrid workforce is a group of employees that can work from their company's workplace as well as remotely.
HTTP
The hypertext transfer protocol is the standard protocol modern web browsers and the web itself uses. FTP and BitTorrent are examples of alternative protocols.
Hostnames
A hostname is a human-readable label that points to a device connected to a network. For example, on your home network, your Windows computer’s hostname may be WINDOWSPC. Your other devices can connect to WINDOWSPC and will be pointed at that ...
Help Desk
A help desk is an information and assistance resource that troubleshoots problems with software or hardware.
HTTP (HTTPS)
Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is the application (or program) that a web browser uses to ask a web server for information. When you type “https://creativetrnd.com” into your browser, a domain name system (DNS) helps it reach out to Mailchimp’s ...
HTML
Hypertext markup language (HTML) is the coding language used to create web pages. With the help of CSS and JavaScript, HTML tells a web browser how to format, style, and link together text and images on a page. For example, the tag is used to ...
H1
An HTML tag used to identify the highest level of information on a page. In practice, page titles and headlines are usually marked with H1 tags and are the largest pieces of text on a page. H1 tags can be associated with specific styles or formatting ...
Heat Map
A visual representation of data that uses color to communicate areas of highest use or likelihood. A click map is a special type of heat map that shows which parts of web pages receive the most clicks. Using a scale of red (“hot”) to blue (“cold”), ...
Hashtag
A hash or pound sign (#) used after a word or phrase to label content and make it easier to find. Hashtags are common on social media and used to connect posts on related topics. For example, if you click #creativetrnd on Twitter, it will bring up a ...
Hyperlink
A piece of text or an image on a website that takes you to another web page when you click on it. Hyperlinked text is often blue and underlined, but thanks to CSS, it can appear any way a web designer chooses. Hyperlinks can also link to different ...