BE SEEN WEB DESIGN GLOSSARY

 

Do you ever get confused by all the terms you see on the web? Well here at Be Seen Web Design, we have created a list of the terms we use on a daily basis and then created a glossary of them for you. If you have any terms you are unsure about just send us an e-mail and we'll explain it to you.

 

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Hits

A hit is an indicattion of how many times the information has been viewed or downloaded on a web site. For example if you are looking at your log files for your website, it might say you got 898 hits for a particular image, this does not mean that the image was downloaded, it means that a browser asked for that image 898 times. It can also mean the number of URLs received in a search. For example, someone could say " I got 143 hits for vancouver web design " . This would mean they searched for vancouver web design and got 143 URLs back in the SERP ( Search Engine Results Page) .

Home page

This term can have a few meanings. Originally it meant the website that your browser went to when you opened it. For example when I open Windows Explorer it, opens up to Google.ca. Google would be my homepage. This is something you can set yourself. Your homepage could be any page you choose. A homepage now, can also mean the homepage of a website. A website homepage is meant to give the user a general idea of what is in the entire website. Generally the homepage is named index.html or index.htm.

Host

A computer connected to the internet that stores and provides information. Also called a server.

HTML

Stands for Hypertext Markup Language. This is the language that web pages are created using.

HTTP

Stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The protocol for moving hypertext across the Internet.

Hyperlink

A pointer to another web page, another name would be a hotlinks.

Hypertext

is text that is crossed linked to other documents.

ICRA

Internet Content Rating Association

Images

is a photograph that is in digital format.

Index

The collection of information a search engine has that searchers can query against. With crawler-based search engines, the index is typically copies of all the web pages they have found from crawling the web. With human-powered directories, the index contains the summaries of all web sites that have been categorized.

Inline element

When referring to HTML and CSS. This is an element which is located within the HTML code as opposed the being included in the page's style sheet.

Internet Marketing

Leveraging the Internet as a means of communicating a company’s messaging, attracting prospects and customers, and conducting market research.

intranet

The intranet ( note: lowercase " i ") is a private network of computers inside a company or organization. The intranet uses the same kind of software and rules of the Internet but, it is used for the transfer of internal information. There are also intranet websites, they are websites that you can access for the Internet but are for only members of the organisation or business.

IRC

Acronym for 'Internet relay chat.' An Internet-based communications system that permits people from across the world to hold real-time conversations online, in a text-only form. IRC areas are divided into named 'channels,' and any user can open his or her own channel. It was developed by amateur hobbyists and is thus not a commercial service. IRC can be a fascinating way to meet people.

itunes

Apple's computer music application, upgraded into the world's largest music selling site.

Java

Programming and operating language designed for the web. Java is very similar to C++ but, simpler.

Javascript

Javascript is not Java, despite the confusion of similar names. Javascripts are used for rollovers, for creating pop up windows, and other animated functions.

JPEG/JPG

Stands for Joint Photograhic Experts Group ( the name of the commitee that created this file format). A lossy file compression format designed to compress the file size. JPEG is best used for photographs for the web.

JSP

Short for Java Server Page. A server-side technology, Java Server Pages are an extension to the Java servlet technology that was developed by Sun. JSPs have dynamic scripting capability that works in tandem with HTML code, separating the page logic from the static elements -- the actual design and display of the page -- to help make the HTML more functional(i.e. dynamic database queries). A JSP is translated into Java servlet before being run, and it processes HTTP requests and generates responses like any servlet. However, JSP technology provides a more convenient way to code a servlet. Translation occurs the first time the application is run. A JSP translator is triggered by the .jsp file name extension in a URL. JSPs are fully interoperable with servlets. You can include output from a servlet or forward the output to a servlet, and a servlet can include output from a JSP or forward output to a JSP. JSPs are not restricted to any specific platform or server. It was orignially created as an alternative to Microsoft's ASPs (Active Server Pages). Recently, however, Microsoft has countered JSP technology with its own ASP.NET, part of the .NET initiative.