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Subject:Re: Is "WebTop" a real word? From:Ed Breslin <breslin -at- TIAC -dot- NET> Date:Thu, 12 Aug 1999 13:15:00 -0400
"Webtop" is a term that I have seen used often in Netscape-related
discourse.
Ed Breslin
Contract Technical Writer
Anna Keeler wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> The company I am writing for uses the word "WebTop" to describe the first
> page that a user sees when they log in to an ecommerce site. This page
> contains all of the buttons that the user is able to access (i.e. admin,
> reports, order).
>
> Is this a valid word, and if so - should it be one or two words? Is there
> another word that would be better?
>
> I have looked at different computer term dictionaries and haven't seen
this
> word in any of them.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Anna.
>
>
