blog

lowercase

browser

lowercase; an application program used to display encoded documents for usage on the Web

CD-ROM

hyphenated and all caps

database

one word

dot-com

Use a hyphen in this generic term for businesses operating on the Internet.

DVD

all caps

e-mail

hyphenated and lowercase

home page

two words; the front or main page of a Web site

Internet

Capitalize (but "intranet" is lowercase).

login, logon, logoff

nouns; one words, no hyphen, lowercase: This is your login name for the system.

Use as two words in verb form: Please log off the system when finished.

offline, online

one word, no hyphen

URL

All caps; an acronym for "uniform resource locator," an Internet address. If a Web site does not use a conventional ‘www’ address, the http:// should be included in references to the address.

World Wide Web

Do not use this term; use Web, internet or online instead.

When providing a Web address, it is not necessary to say “visit us online at…” or “visit us on the Web at…”; simply say, “visit us at….”

Web site

not website

webcam, webcast and webmaster

one word and lowercase