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We have selected important terms and their meanings
used in today's high tech world. If your task is to work on a new
website project then you will find these terms very helpful. |
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Animation |
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It is referred to an image that changes over time. |
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ASP |
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Short for Active Server Pages that is used for
creating dynamic content of a web page. Technically said it is a server
side scripting language. It is mostly used on Windows platforms. |
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Bandwidth |
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Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can
travel a communications path in a given time, usually measured in
seconds. If you think of the communications path as a pipe, then bandwidth
represents the width of the pipe that determines how much data can
flow through it all at once. |
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Banner |
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Also referred to as a banner ad, a banner is a
typically rectangular advertisement placed on a website either above,
below or on the sides of the website's main content and is linked
to the advertiser's own website. |
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Browser |
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Very often called web browser, a software application
used to locate and display web pages. The two most popular browsers
are Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator. There are
many other browsers like AOL Browser, Opera, NeoPlanet and many others. |
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Database |
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A special way of organizing computer data. It
looks like a table with implemented columns and rows for fast accessing
data from any of the cells in the table. There are many different
types of databases but all of them work on the same principle. Databases
are very useful for storing and organizing data for later retrieval.
Very often used for managing accounts, managing user information,
creating guest books and bulletin boards. |
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Discussion Group |
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A web page that supports interactive discussions
by users. Users submit text content using a form, that is saved on
the server and that way makes it available to other visitors. |
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DNS |
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The Domain Name System which identifies each computer
as a network point on the Internet, using an internet protocol address
system to translate from domain name to IP and reverse. |
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Domain Name |
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A unique name that identifies one or more IP addresses.
For example, the domain name businessartworksolutions.com represents
one IP address. Domain names are used in URLs to identify certain
web pages. Every website that you visit is stored under domain name. |
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Domain Name Extension |
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The part after the dot in the domain name is a
domain name extension. In the businessartworksolutions.com domain,
the domain extension is .com. There are many other domain name extensions
such as .com .net .org .gov .edu .mil .info .web .us .uk .cc .it .mx
.ba and many others. |
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Downloading |
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Downloading is the method by which users access
and save or "pull down" software or other files to their
own computers from a remote computer, usually via a modem. |
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E-Commerce |
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E-Commerce means conducting business on the Internet.
It is mostly referred to buying and selling items on-line. |
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Encryption |
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A way of coding the information in a file or e-mail
message so that if it is intercepted by a third party as it travels
over a network it cannot be read. Only the persons sending and receiving
the information have the key and this makes it unreadable to anyone
except for those persons (your browser does it automatically). |
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Flash |
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Browser independent vector and graphic animation
technology owned by Macromedia Inc.. Most browsers support Flash technology
and one flash animation looks the same on all browsers. |
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FTP |
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FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol, which is
one of the methods of transferring files over the Internet. |
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GIF |
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GIF stands for graphics interchange format, it
is a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web. GIF
supports color and various resolutions. But it is limited to 256 colors. |
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Home Page |
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It is the first page (also called opening
page) of a website. |
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Hosting |
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Hosting is a service provided by a hosting company.
This is a place (a computer available on the Internet) where the website
is stored and made available to website users to view the content
of that website. |
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HTML |
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Stands for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring
and editing language used to create web pages on the World Wide Web. |
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Internet |
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The largest global network connecting millions
of computers. It is strictly based on TCP/IP protocol for communication
between host and server. |
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Intranet |
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A private network belonging to an organization,
usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members,
employees, or others with authorization. |
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IP Address |
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An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique
identifier for a point or host connection on an IP network. An IP
address is a 32 bit binary number usually represented as 4 decimal
values, each representing 8 bits, in the range 0 to 255 (known as
octets) separated by decimal points. It is just a number like 66.46.105.9
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Java applet |
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A short program written in Java (not JavaScript)
that is attached to a World Wide Web page and executed by the browser
machine. Often used for complicated web applications. |
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JavaScript |
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JavaScript is a client-side scripting language
that allows dynamic behavior to be specified within HTML documents.
Most browsers support java, however some browsers are disabled for
JavaScript use. |
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JPEG (JPG) |
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Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG
uses compression a technique for color images and therefore some details
are lost in the compression, yet giving relatively good quality. It
is widely used on the Internet and other digital applications. |
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Link |
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Sometimes called hyperlink. A link is an object
on the web page. When visitors click with the mouse on the object
the user is taken to another web page where the link is pointing to.
Different types of links are: text links, graphic links, java links,
form links and some others. |
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Login Section |
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This Is a specific section of a website where
registered accounts can login. Normally it is used to protect specific
pages in the website and registered accounts can have access to a
default page (all the accounts have access to the same page) or individual
page (every single account has access to a personal page). |
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MP3 |
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MP3 is the file extension for MPEG, audio layer
3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes (layer 1, layer 2 and layer
3) for the compression of audio signals. MP3 files could be embedded
into website providing music while visitors are viewing the site.
MP3 files are relatively small comparing to other audio files and
therefore are quite suitable for transferring over the Internet. |
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Newsletter |
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An email report giving news or information of
interest to a special group. |
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Newsletter Form |
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Is a subscription form used by online viewers
to subscribe or unsubscribe to a specific newsletter. |
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PHP |
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PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side, HTML
embedded scripting language used to create dynamic web pages. Designed
for Windows and Unix type platforms. |
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Protocol |
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A formal set of conventions that allows communication
between two communicating functional units. Simply said it is a language
that computers use to talk to each other. Of course there are many
of such languages. Most popular is TCP/IP used officially on the Internet.
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Search Engine |
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A program that performs searching in documents
for specified terms or phrases and that returns a list of the documents
where those terms were found. Search Engines are lately referred to
Internet Search Engines. The most popular search engines today are
Google, Yahoo,
MSN, AllTheWeb, Excite,
Lycos, AOL, HotBot, Altavista, Ilse, Startpagina. There are over several
thousands of search engines and this number is growing every day.
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Search Engine Optimization - SEO |
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Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a way of increasing
the number of visitors to a certain website by adding appropriate
keywords and phrases, and as such ranking high in the search results.
The higher a website ranks in the results of a search, the bigger
the chance that the site will be found by a search user. For general
and competitive websites it takes a lot of professionalism to tweak
the website in order to be well optimized and search engine friendly.
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Submission Forms |
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Forms are web page "fields" for a user
to fill in with information. They are an excellent way of collecting
and processing information from people visiting a website, as well
as allowing them to interact with web pages. Forms are written in
HTML and processed by CGI programs. The output can be sent as an e-mail
form, stored online, printed, and/or returned to the user as an HTML
page. |
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Thumbnail |
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A small version of a bigger image on a web page.
Usually containing a hyperlink to a full-size version of the image.
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URL |
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It stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which
is a string that supplies the Internet address of a resource on the
World Wide Web, along with the protocol by which the resource is accessed.
The most common URL type is "http," which gives the Internet
address of a World Wide Web page. Some other URL types are gopher
and ftp. |
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Video Clip |
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A short video sequence that can be embedded into
a web page. |
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Web Application |
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Web Applications are web programs or real programs
designed to be used on the website using a browser. An example of
a web application could be an e-commerce website, web banking, stock
exchange on the web, web games and many others. Web applications are
becoming very popular due to wide availability of the Internet access.
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Web Based E-mail |
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Web based e-mail is a software on a POP3 server
that allows you the luxury, if desired, to access your POP accounts
by simply using a web-browser. It allows users to send and receive
emails via any web-browser by viewing an HTML web page. |
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Webmaster |
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The webmaster is the person in charge of maintaining
a website. The job of a webmaster include writing HTML for web pages,
organizing the website's structure, responding to e-mails about the
site. |
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Web Page |
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This is one of the pages one the website, also
including the home page. |
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Website |
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A site presence on the World Wide Web. Each website
contains a home page (opening page), which is the first document users
see when they enter the site. |
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World Wide Web |
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A system of Internet servers that supports specially
formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a script called
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents,
as well as graphics, audio, and video files. This means that you can
jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots.
Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web |
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