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Applet
- A small Java program that can be embedded in an HTML page.
Bandwidth
- How much information you can send through a connection.
Blog or Web Log
- A blog (short for "web log") is a type of web page that serves as a publicly
accessible personal journal (or log) for an individual. Typically updated daily,
blogs often reflect the personality of the author.
Broadband
- Generally refers to connections to the Internet with much greater bandwidth
than you can get with a modem.
Cache
- A store for frequently-used data or files. Data can be accessed from a cache
more quickly than from its original source. Internet Explorer uses a hard disk
cache for web pages, while computer processors often have small amounts of very
speedy memory as a cache.
Cookie
- Text files generated by websites you visit and stored on your computer's hard
disk. Cookies contain preferences and other information about your use of the
sites, and are not harmful.
CSS
(Cascading Style Sheet) - A standard for specifying the appearance of text and
other elements. CSS was developed for use with HTML in Web pages but is also
used in other situations.
Domain Name
- the name used to identify a site on the Internet, such as lcn.com
DNS
(Domain Name System) - The Domain Name System is the system that translates
Internet domain names into IP numbers. A "DNS Server" is a server that performs
this kind of translation.
FTP
- (File Transfer Protocol) Ability to transfer rapidly entire files from one
computer to another, intact for viewing or other purposes.
HTML
- (Hypertext Markup Language) A standardized language of computer
code, imbedded in "source" documents behind all Web documents, containing the
textual content, images, links to other documents (and possibly other
applications such as sound or motion), and formatting instructions for display
on the screen.
IP Address or IP Number
- (Internet Protocol number or address). A unique number consisting of 4 parts
separated by dots, e.g. 165.113.245.2. Every machine that is on the Internet has
a unique IP address.
ISP
(Internet Service Provider) A company that provides you with access to the
internet usually for a fee. Examples are BT Internet, AOL, Wanadoo
Meta Tag
- A specific kind of HTML tag that contains information not normally displayed
to the user. Meta tags contain information about the page itself, hence the name
("meta" means "about this subject")
Plug-In
- An application built into a browser or added to a browser to enable it to
interact with a special file type (such as a movie, sound file, Word document,
etc.)
POP3
- Post Office Protocol 3. A protocol for remotely accessing and retrieving email
from an ISP.
Popularity Ranking
of search results - Some search engines rank the order in which search results
appear primarily by how many other sites link to each page (a kind of popularity
vote based on the assumption that other pages would create a link to the "best"
pages).
Portal
- Usually used as a marketing term to described a Web site that is or is
intended to be the first place people see when using the Web. Typically a
"Portal site" has a catalog of web sites, a search engine, or both.
Script
- A script is a type of programming language that can be used to fetch and
display Web pages.
SMTP
(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) - The main protocol used to send electronic mail
from server to server on the Internet.
Spiders
- Computer robot programs, referred to sometimes as "crawlers" or
"knowledge-bots" or "knowbots" that are used by search engines to roam the World
Wide Web via the Internet, visit sites and databases, and keep the search engine
database of web pages up to date.
SQL
(Structured Query Language) - A specialized language for sending queries to
databases.
URL
- Uniform Resource Locator. The unique address of any Web document. May be keyed
in a browser's OPEN or LOCATION / GO TO box to retrieve a document.
VOIP
(Voice Over IP) - A specification and various technologies used to allow making
telephone calls over IP networks, especially the Internet. Just as modems allow
computers to connect to the Internet over regular telephone lines, VOIP
technology allows humans to talk over Internet connections.
WAN
(Wide Area Network) - Any internet or network that covers an area larger than a
single building or campus.
Wi-Fi
(Wireless Fidelity) - A popular term for a form of wireless data communication,
basically Wi-Fi is "Wireless Ethernet".
XHTML
- A variant of HTML. Stands for Extensible Hypertext Markup
Language is a hybrid between HTML and XML that is more universally acceptable in
Web pages and search engines than XML.
XML
- (Extensible Markup Language), a dilution for Web page use of
SGML (Standard General Markup Language), which is not readily viewable in
ordinary browsers and is difficult to apply to Web pages.
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