Glossary
- Apache - the most popular Web server program used on the Internet
- Back end - the part of a website accessible only to authorised users, e.g. a content management system or admin tool; see Front end
- Breadcrumb trail - a series of links back up through the site structure to the home page
- Browser - computer program to display a Web page at a Website on the World Wide Web
- CMS - Content Management System, a system for handling content on a website
- CSS - Cascading Style Sheets is a W3C Standart and is used for styling web pages
- Client-side - describes the functionality that is performed on the user's computer; see Server-side
- Database - Collection of data stored in tables on a Web server, common formats are MySQL and SQL Server
- Domain name - First part of a URL, for instance iteracy.com
- Dynamic - Opposite of static. Web page that gives users an interactive experience
- E-commerce - Sellig or buying items on the Internet
- FTP - File Transfer Protocol, a method to send and receive files across the Internet
- Flash - a plugin made by the Adobe company for rich functionality on Web pages
- Form - it allows a user to enter data onto a web page and send it to the Web server
- Front end - Part of the website displayed to the general public, see Back end
- GIF - An imageformat with limited colours, but capable of animation
- HTML - HyperText Markup Language, the common programming language used to create web pages
- HTTP - the method for transferring web pages across the internet
- Homepage - This page is displayed to a user when they start their Web browser or click the 'home' button
- Host - the server on which a website resides, or the company that provides it
- Hosting company - or Internet Service Provider (ISP) is a company that sells space on their web servers to the public
- Hyperlink - a link to another webpage, image, document or other media on a Web page
- Internet - the famous, global computer network
- JPEG - another imageformat used mainly for photographs.
- Java - a programming language and plugin made by Sun to allow more complex programs to run on a web page
- JavaScript -Scripting language used for client-side functionality
- MySQL - Famous open source database system created by MySQL AB
- Open source - a set of principles and practices on how to write software, the most important of which is that the source code is openly available
- PHP - a wide spreaded computer language used to create dynamic Web pages
- PNG - an imageformat suitable for graphics on the web, replacing the older GIF file type
- Plugin - an add-in programme for a web browser such as Java, Flash or Quicktime
- Quicktime - Apple´s plugin to display video and rich media on web pages
- Ranking - the placement of a website in a search engines results
- SEF - Search Engine Friendly means designed to improve the visibility of a site to a search engine
- SEO - Search Engine Optimisation, methods to improve a website's result position in a search engine
- SQL Server - a database system created by the Microsoft company
- Search engine - a website designed to search for information on the Web like Google.com
- Server - a computer that holds a web site and sends pages, images and other parts of a web page
- Server-side - refers to functionality that´s performed on the Web server
- Static - a Web page that doesn't include any rich database calls or functionalilty
- W3C - stands for the World Wide Web Consortium, the organisation that sets standards for the Web
- WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative, a set of standards created by the W3C to improve accessibility of websites
- Web page - is a file usually written in HTML or XHTML programming languages that can be a read by the Web browser
- Website -Ccollection of Web pages, images or videos hosted on one or several Web server(s)
- World Wide Web -The system of linked documents accessed via the Internet
- XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup Language, the latest version of HTML
- XML - Extensible Markup Language, a general-purpose markup language upon which XHTML is based