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A B C D E F
G H I J
K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Access (Microsoft)
A database system developed by
Microsoft. Part of Microsoft Office Professional. Mostly used on
low traffic web sites running on the Windows platform.
ActiveX
ActiveX - a COM (Component Object
Model) - was widely released in 1997, developed by Microsoft for
Windows platforms.
Anchor
In web terms - The starting point
or ending point of a hyperlink.
Applet
An
applet is a program written in the Java programming
language that can be included in an HTML page, much in the same
way an image is included.
ASP (Active Server Page)
A HTML page that includes one or
more scripts (see script) - processed on a Microsoft server
prior to being sent to the recipient. This is Microsoft's first
server-side script engine for dynamically generated web pages.
Attachment (Email attachment)
The name given to a file sent with
an email. An email attachment can be any type of file including
images (photos), documents, zipped files/folders, etc.
Auto-Responder
An ‘Auto-responder’ is an automatic reply to any correspondence
sent to an email address.
AVI (Audio Video Interleave)
Introduced by Microsoft in '92, as
part of it's video for Windows technology - an AVI is a
multimedia format which can contain Audio or Video files
allowing video with audio playback.
Bandwidth
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The capacity for a given system to
transfer data over a connection.
Banner Ad
A form of advertising online -
actually, like them or hate them, banner Ad's are still one of
the most dominant forms of advertising across the web.
BMP (Bitmap)
A format for storing images.
Browser
See Web Browser
CTR (Click Through Ratio)
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A way of measuring the success of
an online advertising campaign.
Co-Location
Housing your own personal server with a hosting provider. A
perfect option if you want to own your own server, but do not
want the hassle or security risk of maintaining said server.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
A style-sheet language used to
describe the presentation of a document written in a mark-up
language.
Cookie
A small text file used by a
website to track information - i.e. any time you tell a shopping
website to "remember my address" or your log-in information,
it's being stored in a cookie on your hard disk.
Disk Space
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The allocation of server hard disk
drive space where your web site is stored and connected to the
Internet.
DIVX
MP3 is to audio as
DivX is to video.
DivX compresses video
enabling people to share these files easier.
Domain Name
The name that identifies a
website.
Domain Name Registrar
A company that provides domain
name registration services for a fee.
Email ( Electronic Mail)
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Messages sent from one person to
another via the Internet.
Email (POP3)
See POP3 Mail
Email (IMAP)
See IMAP
FireFox
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A widely used browser developed by
the Mozilla Foundation, used to search and view information
files on the World Wide Web.
Firewall
A barrier between your computer
and the whole internet, there to ensure your safety from
hackers, worms, viruses and all the other nasty programs out
there.
Frontpage (Microsoft)
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You
Get) HTML editor and web site administration tool. One of the
best web design software packages on the market today.
FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
The easiest and most secure way to
exchange files over the Internet
GB (Gigabyte)
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1000 MB=1GB - A unit of measure
for digital information.
GIF (Graphical Interchange
Format)
One of the most widely used image
formats on the web.
Hosting
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See Web Host
HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer
Protocol)
The protocol for transferring
hypertext documents that makes the World Wide Web possible.
A standard web
address (such as
http://www.hostinggeek.co.uk)
is called a URL; the prefix (http
in the example) indicates its protocol.
Hyperlink
A selectable element in an
electronic document that serves as an access point to other
electronic resources. Typically, you click the hyperlink to
access the linked resource. Familiar hyperlinks include buttons,
icons, image maps, and clickable text links.
Inbox
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Where your incoming email messages
are stored before they are read.
Internet Explorer (I.E)
A widely used browser used to
search and view information files on the World Wide Web. Introduced in 1995, Internet
Explorer is often abbreviated to IE and is a browser made by
Microsoft.
IP Address
Your IP address is your
computer's unique address on the Internet; it consists of four
numeric segments separated by periods (e.g.74.346.12.152).
Intranet
A restricted-access
Inter-connected network within one organisation that uses Web
technologies for the sharing of information internally, not
world wide.
ISP (Internet Server Provider)
An Internet service provider (ISP)
is any organisation through which you can arrange Internet
access.
IMAP (Internet Message Access
Protocol)
IMAP is a protocol for
retrieving email messages and working with mailboxes on
a mail server using an email client. Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is a corresponding protocol
used to send outgoing mail to an IMAP server.
JPEG
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JPEG (pronounced "jay-peg") is a
standardised image compression mechanism. For geometric line
drawings, lettering, cartoons, computer screenshots, and other
images with flat colour and sharp borders, the GIF image format
is usually preferable.
KB (Kilobytes)
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1000 Bytes=1KB - A unit of
measure for digital information.
Keyword
A word or phrase that a user
believes is relevant to the information he or she is seeking.
The user enters the keywords into a search engine. The engine
then examines each record in its database to find those
documents that match the keyword or words.
Linux
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Depending on the context, the word "Linux" describes a couple of things. Most accurately, the word "Linux" describes an operating system kernel -- that is, the low-level part of an operating system that does all the hard work of talking to the computer's hardware, managing memory and devices, and generally doing the grunt work. Unless you are an advanced user, or you run into some sort of hardware or software problem, you'll almost never interact or even need to think about the kernel itself.
Mailbox
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See Inbox.
MB (Megabyte)
1000KB=1MB - A unit of
measure for digital information.
MPEG
The acronym for Moving Pictures
Expert Group, MPEG is an international standard for video
compression and desktop movie presentation. A special viewing
application is needed to run MPEG files on your computer.
MS (Microsoft)
Microsoft Corporation is an
American multinational computer technology corporation, which
rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with
MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Windows line of
operating systems.
MSN Messenger
MSN Web
Messenger lets you talk online and in real-time with
friends and family.
Netscape
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A widely used browser used to
search and view information files on the World Wide Web.
Opera
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An Internet browser that operates
across devices, platforms and operating systems. The Opera Web
browser currently ranks third among browsers worldwide
PDF (Portable Document Format)
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A universally accepted file format
for saving page layouts and contents.
Perl (Practical Extraction and
Report Language)
A programming language which can
be used for a large variety of tasks. A typical simple use of
Perl would be for extracting information from a text file and
printing out a report or for converting a text file into another
form.
PHP
PHP is probably the most popular
scripting language on the web. It is used to enhance web pages.
With PHP, you can do things like create username and password
login pages, check details from a form, create forums, picture
galleries, surveys, and a whole lot more.
Platform
In web terms: The computer's
operating system like Windows or Linux.
POP3 Mail
A standard protocol for receiving
e-mail.
POP3 is the latest version of POP. With POP3, once mail clients
connect and download their messages, the messages are typically
removed from the server and stored on the client's local
machine.
Proxy Server
A proxy server
manages traffic between your network and servers on the
Internet, and determines whether network packets are allowed to
pass through to the network. When a client computer makes a
request, the proxy server translates the request and passes it
on to the Internet. When a computer on the Internet responds,
the proxy server passes the response back to the client
computer.
RAID (Redundant Array of
Independent Disks)
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A standard for connecting multiple
disks to the same server for higher security, speed and
performance. Often used on web servers.
ROI (Return On Investment)
A performance measure used to
evaluate the efficiency of an investment or to compare the
efficiency of a number of different investments.
Script(s)
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A short program that is stored on
a web server to control part of a website. For example, a script
could check that an address you have entered is valid, or move
images across the screen.
Search Engine
A tool for searching information
on the Internet by topic. Popular engines include Google, Yahoo
and MSN.
SEO (Search Engine
Optimisation)
A process of editing and
organising the content on a webpage or across a website to
increase potential visibility within a search engine.
Server
See Web Server.
Shareware
Software distributed on a
try-before-you-buy basis.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol)
A network protocol used to send
email across the Internet. When you
send email, its first
stop is a server running SMTP.
SPAM
Unsolicited e-mail. Most spam is
commercial advertising, often for dubious products,
get-rich-quick schemes, or dodgy legal services. Spam costs the
sender very little to send -- most of the costs are paid for by
the recipient or the carriers rather than by the sender.
Spyware
Software that collects information
about a person or organization without their knowledge or
informed consent and reports such data back to a third party.
SQL Server
Microsoft database management
software.
Tags
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Formatting codes used in HTML -
i.e. <H1> </H1>, <P>
TLD (Top Level Domain)
The domain name elements at the right,
such as .co.uk, .info or .biz.
URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
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The method by which Internet sites
are addressed - i.e. www.hostinggeek.co.uk
Virus
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a malicious program written to do
as much harm as possible. Viruses can spread themselves over the
network.
Web Applet
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See Applet.
Web Browser
Microsoft Internet Explorer and
Firefox are the most popular web browsers. Web browsers allow
internet users to view HTML and other documents.
Web Design
Theoretical layout of graphics,
text, and images which will eventually be developed into a Web
site.
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Web Host
Web
hosts are companies that provide space on a server they own for
use by their clients as well as providing
Internet
connectivity, typically in a
data centre.
Webmaster
The person responsible for
designing, developing, marketing, or maintaining a website.
Web Server
A software program that transforms
an Internet-connected computer into a machine capable of hosting
Web pages.
WYSIWYG (What You See Is What
You Get)
This is a very important feature
for web design novices - long gone are the days of having to
understand HTML. WYSIWYG refers to a great HTML editor that
allows you to edit code as you would in a word processor, rather
than editing the actual code yourself. So what you see in the
editor is what you would see on your website.
XHTML
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XHTML is a
stricter form of
HTML and as such is a subset of
XML
which is an extremely useful, powerful and very strict way
of marking up pure data.
XML
XML is short for Extensible Markup
Language, and it allows designers/developers to create their own
customised tags.
ZIP (File)
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A file containing other files that
have been compressed to preserve space. Zip files offer a
convenient way of sending multiple files to someone. It is a
very common format for an archive to be in.
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