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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Macintosh

aka Mac computer. A popular model of computer made by Apple Computers. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh features a graphical user interface (GUI) that utilizes windows, icons, and a mouse to make it relatively easy for novices to use the computer productively. Rather than learning a complex set of commands, you need only point to a selection on a menu and click a mouse button. Moreover, the GUI is embedded into the operating system. This means that all applications that run on a Macintosh computer have a similar user interface. Once a user has become familiar with one application, he or she can learn new applications relatively easily. The success of the Macintosh GUI led heralded a new age of graphics based applications and operating systems.

MB

Stands for Mega Byte - a million bytes. Mbps is megabytes per second.

Masthead

An image placed at the top of a web page to tell the visitor what apge they are on.

Mailing List

A system that allows people to send one e-mail to one address, where their message is copied and sent to all other subscribers on the mail list.

Manual submission

The process of submitting websites or web pages to search engines and directories for inclusion in their databases using specific guidelines unique to each.

Moblog

Moblog is short for mobile blog and mobloging is short for mobile blogging. It is the act of posting on a blog while using a PDA, phone, camera, or anything as long as you are not sitting in front of your computer.

Mouse Over

A javascript element that triggers a change on an item (typically a graphic change, such as making an image or hyperlink appear) in a webpage when the mouseover passes it.

Meta tag

A specific kind of HTML tag that contains information about the tag itself. Typical uses of the meta-tags are for search engines to better help them categorize it.

Micro formats

Are a open data format which aims to give users a more structured blogging and micro publishing standard.

Microsoft Frontpage

Frontpage is a website creation and management tool that gives you everything you need to create and manage exactly the site you want, whether you're creating a personal Web page or a corporate Internet or intranet site.

Mirror

Is to maintain an exact image or copy of something. A mirror sites are two web sites that contain the same content.

Navigation Links

Hightlighted word or phrase that by clicking, allows you to jump to another section of a document, another site or another web page.

Navigation Structure

The relationship between pages in a website, mapped out in a site diagram , which is then used to determine the links that will appear in each page's navigation bar.

Netiquette

Acceptable Behaviour on-line . Etiquette for the net.

No Frames

An element commonly used on framed pages. It states what text will be seen by the user with a browser that does not support frames.

OPML

Short for Outline Processor Markup Language. It is a language in which sofware communicates with the Internet.

PDF

Stands for Portable Document File. PDF files can be view by using Adobe Acrobat, which is available for all browsers and all platforms

PERL

A script programming language. programs written for CGI are often written in Perl

Permalink

Short for permanent link. This is a page a blog creates when a post has been entered. It contains just the one post and you can use this page to link to when referring to just that post.

PHP

Abbreviation for Hypertext preprocessor

Ping

Ping is a basic Internet program that lets you verify that a particular IP address exists and can accept requests.

Pinging

When the server and the browser have got in touch before establishing a connection.

Pixel

Short for Picture Element. The basic unit from which a video or computer picture is made. Essentially a dot with a given color and brightness value. The more pixels the higher the resolution of the picture.

Platform

The operating system running software on a computer (eg Unix or Windows95). Often used to refer to the type of computer, such as a Macintosh or PC compatible.

Plug-in

A plugin (or plug-in) is a computer program that can, or must, interact with another program to provide a certain, usually very specific, function. Typical examples are plugins to display specific graphic formats (e.g., SVG if the browser doesn't support this format natively), to play multimedia files, to encrypt/decrypt email (e.g., PGP), or to filter images in graphic programs.

Pop3

POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) is a standard protocol for receiving email. POP3 is a client/server protocol in which email is received and held for you by your Internet server

Pop-up ad

When a new windows appears and an ad is displayed in it, automatically.

Post

A post usually refers to a blog post, which is a single entry into a blog. It can also refer to a single entry into a forum.

PNG

Portable network Graphics. A graphics format supported on the web by not all browsers.

PPI

Stands for pixels per inch. It is used to describe screen resolution.

Publishing

Another term is uploading. Is to put the file on a web host so that it may be made available for other users to view.

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