Technical Terms

This page includes spelling and capitalization rules for commonly used technical terms.


email

No hyphen.


homepage

One word.


Internet

Capitalized in all uses.


log in, login

Two words when used as a verb, one word when used as an adjective or a noun.


log out, logout

Two words when used as a verb, one word when used as an adjective or a noun.


offline

One word, no hyphen.


online

One word, no hyphen.


sign in, sign-in

Two words when used as a verb, hyphenated when used as an adjective or a noun.


sign out, sign-out

Two words when used as a verb, hyphenated when used as an adjective or a noun.


username

One word unless describing a label in the user interface.


voicemail

One word.


web

Lowercased unless used at the beginning of a sentence (e.g., website, webpage, webinar, webcast, web-based, web address, web browser).


webpage

One word.


website

One word.


World Wide Web

Capitalized in all uses, but the shortened form (the web) is lowercased.

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