Bandwidth - Bandwidth is the amount of data that your website can send each second, as well as the amount of data that the visitor to your website can receive. If either one does not have enough bandwidth, then the website will appear slowly. For this reason, you should choose a host with plenty of bandwidth, as well as testing that your site doesn't take too long to download on slow connections.
Blog - “Blog” is short for weblog. A weblog is simply a journal or diary of sorts that you keep on a daily basis. Only, this “diary” can be seen by the entire world--the world with computers, that is. Your Blog is visible to the world wide web, and it has its own URL, much like your company Web site.
Browser. A browser is the software (see below) that visitors to your site use to view it. The most popular browser is Microsoft's Internet Explorer, which comes with Windows.
Computer -An electronic device for the storage and processing of information.
Cookie - Cookies are data files that your site can save on the computer of someone who visits that site, to allow it to remember who they are if they return.
Email - Email is just like letter writing only faster and without stamps - done on a computer or cell phone. Email is only good if the person you are emailing has a computer and email capability.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol. This is a common method of uploading (see below) files to your website.
Hardware- Hardware is computer equipment that physically exists. It is the opposite of software.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language. A kind of code used to indicate how web pages should be displayed, using a system of small 'tags'. The 'b' tag, for example, causes text to appear in bold, and the 'img' tag displays a picture.
Hyperlink- A hyperlink is when a piece of text on a website can be clicked to take you to another site, or another page on the same site. For example, if clicking your email address on your website allows someone to email you, then your email address is a hyperlink.
Internet - The Internet is a network, like your phone system, that connects computers around the world via the TCP/IP protocol. So the Internet is the highway that transfers the information, while the WWW, FTP, email and other services are the types information that travel on that highway.
IT - information technology: the branch of engineering that deals with the use of computers and telecommunications to retrieve and store and transmit information
Javascript- A common language for writing 'scripts' on websites, which are small programs that make the site more interactive. Another common cause of problems for visitors.
JPEG- Joint Photographic Experts Group. This is the name of the most popular format for pictures on the web, named after the group that came up with it. If you want to put pictures on your website, you should save them as JPEGs.
Network -is a data communications system that interconnects computer systems at various different sites.
RSS Feed - RSS is a Web content syndication format.
Its name is an acronym for Really Simple Syndication. RSS is a family of web feed formats, specified in XML and used for Web syndication.
Server - The server is where your website is stored, and it is the server that people are connecting to when they visit the site. Note that server refers both to the hardware and software of this system.
Software- Programs that run on the computer, or that make your website work. Microsoft Word is software, for example, as is Apache (the most popular web server software). Opposite of hardware.
URL- Uniform Resource Locator. This is just a short way of saying 'web address', meaning what you have to type in to get to your website.
VOIP - Voice over Internet Protocol. The technology used to transmit voice conversations over a data network using the Internet Protocol. Such data network may be the Internet or a corporate Intranet.network
WWW - The World Wide Web is the most well known service on the Internet. The World Wide Web is made up of "Web servers" (computers) that store and transfer "Web pages," which are actually documents that contain text, graphics, animations and videos to anyone with an Internet connection. |
