*Website Design Glossary (Essentials)
Blog
Online diary or news page for commercial and private use.
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
An efficient and useable back-end scripting language to allow quick style & design changes en-mass, without having to amend each webpage individually.
Domain Names
Taking "www.mediaarchitects.co" as the example, "mediaarchitects.co" is the Domain name.
E-Commerce - Online Shopping
Electronic transactions over the internet through Online Shopping Carts. These use Merchant Gateways such as PayPal to process payments securely & safely.
Flash - Animated Vector/Video Files
Created by Macromedia, Flash elements inside a webpage can add animations, video streaming, sounds and interactivity to make a website more dynamic and eye-catching.
Forum / Discussion Board
A place to allow visitors to write & post messages for others to read & reply.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol
Transfering files from one computer/server to another
GIF - Graphic Interchange Format
Popular image compression format.
HTML - HyperText Markup Language
HTML instructs web browsers (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), how to display text, links, graphics & media.
JavaScript / JS
JavaScript is a programming language that can be used to add dynamic features to websites.
JPEG, JPG - Joint Photographic Experts Group Popular image compression format.
Metatags -
Search Engines use metatags to help categorise websites in regards to keyword searching.
Metatags have limited influence on search engine ranking.
My_SQL (mysql) - Open Source Structured Query Language is a popular database system used to store data, which can then be displayed on web-pages.
PHP: Hypertext PreProcessor
Popular server-side scripting language integrated with HTML. Can be used for contact forms, dynamic news feeds, galleries and can be used with My_SQL.
RGB - Red, Green, Blue
All images used online must be in RGB.
RSS - Really Simple Syndication
Allows websites to display RSS news feeds from other sites that publish them (such as blogs).
Screen Resolution
A screens resolution refers to how many pixels your monitor is setup to show. The most popular web-user resolution is 1024x768 and it's important websites are designed with this in mind.
SEO - Search Engine Optimisation
The process of making a website rank higher in a search engine (Google, Yahoo, etc.) through a myriad of online strategies, including use of specific text in the front end/visible portion of a website, and back end (html), labels/tags throughout all online media, and social media networking/linking.
Sitemap
A sitemap provides search engines and visitors a hierarchy of content within the whole site, to aid navigation.
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
Provides specifications, guides & tools to ensure your website meets cross-browser compatibility. More at www.w3c.org.
XHTML - Extensible HyperText Markup Language is the successor to HTML as the W3C standard language. All Live-Media web projects conform to XHTML 1.0 Transitional standard, where possible.
XML - Extensible Markup Language
Allows users to define your own markup. Once XML has defined data/ information, HTML can then display it.
*This page is predominantly credited to http://www.live-media.co.uk/glossary.htm
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