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Glossary of Terms
As you browse through Website creations and read our tutorials on creating and improving websites you may come across various terms, that you are unfamiliar with. We offer a special section of website pages where we go into detail about many of these terms. Here is a short glossary of common website terms.

Above the fold: Area on the webpage immediately visible after the page is loaded.

ActiveX: A programming interface (API) that allows web browsers to download and execute Windows programs. (See also Plug-In)

AdSense: A program from Google for website publishers to display advertisements.

AdWords: A program from Google for businesses to advertise their products and services.

Anchor: In web terms: The starting point or ending point of a hyperlink.

ANSI (American National Standards Institute): An organization that creates standards for the computer industry. Responsible for the ANSI C standard.

Anti-Virus Program: A computer program made to discover and destroy all types of computer viruses.

Apache: An open source web server. Mostly for Unix, Linux and Solaris platforms.

Applet: See web applet.

Archie: A computer program to locate files on public FTP servers.

API (Application Programming Interface): An interface for letting a program communicate with another program. In web terms: An interface for letting web browsers or web servers communicate with other programs. (See also Active-X and Plug-In)

ARPAnet: The experimental network tested in the 1970's which started the development of the Internet.

Authentication: In web terms: the method used to verify the identity of a user, program or computer on the web.

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange)
A set of 128 alphanumeric and special control characters used for computer storing and printing of text. Used by HTML when transmitting data over the web.

Below the fold: Area on the webpage not immediately visible after the page is loaded; area visible after scrolling.

Crawl: Browsing webpages for their content using automated program.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): A W3C recommended language for defining style (such as font, size, color, spacing, etc.) for web documents.

Domain Name: the hostname in a website's URL (http://www.apluscreations.biz).

Freshbot: Google spider that crawls the web looking for fresh content. Compare with deepbot.

FrontPage: Web development software for the Windows platform. Developed by Microsoft.

FTP Software: Software to upload and download files from the Internet.

Google: Company specializing in Internet search and online advertising.

Googlebot: Web crawler program owned by Google.

Home Page: The top-level (main) page of a web site. The default page displayed when you visit a web site.

Hosting: Service allowing individuals and organizations to provide their websites accessibility on the Internet.

HTML: Computer language used for webpages. It stands for Hypertext Markup Language.  HTML Codes give instructions to the computer on what to do.

HTML Editor: Software to write webpages. Link Broker: A person or website engaged in the buying and selling of links.

LAN: Stands for "Local Area Network," and is pronounced like "land" without the "d".  A LAN is a computer network limited to a small area such as an office building, university, or even a residential home.

Multi-level Marketing: Business model combining direct marketing with franchising using unsalaried salesforce to sell products/services.

Organic listing: Search result listing based on relevancy of keyword.

PageRank: Ranking system for websites devised by Google.

Paid listing: Search engine listing achieved through keyword-targeted advertising.

Script: A collection of statements written in a Scripting Language.

Search Engine: Computer program used to search and catalog (index) the millions of pages of available information on the web. Common search engines are Google and Bing.

Spider: A computer program that searches the Internet for web pages. Common web spiders are the one used by search engines like Google and AltaVista to index the web. Web spiders are also called web robots or wanderers.

Wan: Stands for "Wide Area Network." It is similar to a Local Area Network (LAN), but it's a lot bigger. Unlike LANs, WANs are not limited to a single location

Web Crawler: Program used by search engines to browse the content of webpages, to compile and index them, also called spider and web spider.

Webmaster: The webmaster is the person in charge of maintaining a Web site. The jobs of a webmaster include writing HTML for Web pages, organizing the Web site's structure, responding to e-mails about the Web site, and keeping the site up-to-date.

WhoIs: This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain name or IP address. If you enter a domain name in a WHOIS search engine, it will scour a huge database of domains and return information about the one you entered. This information typically contains the name, address, and phone number of the administrative, billing, and technical contacts of the domain name. WHOIS can also be used to simply check if a certain domain name is available or if it has already been registered. To see the WHOIS service in action, check out Allwhois.com or BetterWhois.com.

Wiki: A wiki is a Web site that allows users to add and update content on the site using their own Web browser. This is made possible by Wiki software that runs on the Web server. Wikis end up being created mainly by a collaborative effort of the site visitors. A great example of a large wiki is the Wikipedia, a free encyclopedia in many languages that anyone can edit.

Worm: A computer virus that can make copies of itself and spread to other computers over the Internet.

Zip Files: A zip file (.zip) is a "zipped" or compressed file. For example, when you download a file, if the filename looks like this: "filename.zip," you are downloading a zipped file. "Zipping" a file involves compressing one or more items into a smaller archive.
 
 
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