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Glossary of Terms (A-E F-L M-Z)
Malware
A generic term used to describe a variety of malicious software such as
viruses, Trojan horses, worms, spyware, etc.
Megabyte (MB)
A measure of data storage and/or data transfer on your Web site.
1 Megabyte = 1,000 Kilobytes = 1,000,000 Bytes
1,000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte
For data storage and data transfer:
* 10MB is roughly 330 Web pages stored or transferred (viewed)
* 20MB is roughly 660 Web pages stored or transferred (viewed)
* 30MB is roughly 990 Web pages stored or transferred (viewed)
Meta Tag
Meta tags are HTML elements used to provide structured metadata about
a web page. Such elements are placed as tags in the <head></head>
section of an HTML document.
Typical uses of Meta tags are to include information for search engines
to help them better categorize a page.
Password
A password is a form of secret authentication that is used to restrict
access to a resource. Good passwords contain letters and non-letters and
are not simple combinations such as Fred1. A good password might be: B4uGo#.
Perl
Short for Practical Extraction and Report Language, Perl is a programming
language with strong capability to process text. Commonly used for writing
CGI Scripts.
Private Registration
When you register a domain name, your address, e-mail and phone number
are published in the public WHOIS database. ICANN requires this personal
information to be available for anybody to view on the Web. Private registration
allows you to use alternate contact information rather than your own personal
information for the WHOIS database when registering a domain name.
Register Domain
To establish an Internet identity you need to have a domain name. In order
to do this, you'll need to register a domain name. To do so, you can go
to www.networksolutions.com and type your desired name in the search box
and purchase an available domain.
Script
A script is a type of program that consists of a set of instructions for
another application or utility to use.
Search Engine
A search engine is a program designed to help find information stored
on a computer system such as the World Wide Web using key words and phrases.
Search engines explore the Internet and return a list of Web pages that
are related to the key words or phrases entered. Popular search engines
include Google, Alta Vista, Ask Jeeves, Excite, Hotbot, Lycos, and Yahoo.
Search engines are also a good tool to market your Website to potential
visitors. Search engines let people know about your site and drive traffic
to your site. When a person searches on a term that is related to your
Website, a brief description of your site with a link to it will appear
in their search results. There are a number of different ways to approach
Search Engine Marketing.
You can also pay to have your site listed on search results (in a different
area from natural, non-paid search results) when a key word you designate
is searched on.
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) makes your Website more appealing to
search engines and gives them a better understanding of who they should
send to your site. Optimizing your Website should result in a high placement
in natural search results or in the area where companies aren't paying
to be listed.
Search Engine Submission
This includes the submission of your Website to search engines and a complete
analysis of your site, identifying improvement on your Website that can
help your Website get indexed by search engines more successfully.
Sub-Domain/Directory Pointer
A directory pointer (or sub-domain) allows you to point that sub-domain
to a particular page (or directory) of a Website. Two popular examples
of subdomains include news.google.com and mail.yahoo.com, where news and
mail subdomains.
Unix
A popular multi-user, multitasking operating system developed at Bell
Labs in the early 1970s. Created by just a handful of programmers, UNIX
was designed to be a small, flexible system used exclusively by programmers.
URL
An acronym for Uniform Resource Locator, a URL is the address for a resource
or site (usually a directory or file) on the World Wide Web and the convention
that Web browsers use for locating files and other remote services.
User ID/User Name
A User ID is the account name used to access a computer system. Also called
login name or user name, it is a way people identify themselves to their
online service or Internet access provider.
Web Design
The aesthetic and navigational architecture of a Website.
Web Hosting
Web hosting is an online storage service for information, images, video,
or any content accessible through the Web.
Web Page
A Web page is a document created with HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
that is part of a group of hypertext documents or resources available
on the World Wide Web. Collectively, these documents and resources form
what is known as a Web site. Web pages can contain hypertext links to
other places within the same document, to other documents at the same
Website, or to documents at other Web sites. They can also contain fill-in
forms, photos, large clickable images, sounds, and videos for downloading.
Website
A Website is a collection of HTML documents or Web pages that are linked
together and that exist on the Web at a particular server. Exploring a
Website usually begins with the home page, which may lead you to more
information about that site. A single server may support multiple Web
sites.
Website traffic
The visitors who come to your Website are collectively referred to you
as your site's traffic. You may find it helpful to use a page view counter
to track how many visitors your site receives. More sophisticated tracking
tools, such as SuperStats, compile Website traffic reports on what sites
your visitors come from when they arrive at your Web site, where they
go within your Web site, and the activities they engage in on your site.
WHOIS
WHOIS is a directory of domain name information. When you register a domain
name, your postal address, e-mail address and phone number are automatically
published in the public WHOIS database. The Internet Corporation for Assigned
Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit body responsible for accrediting
domain name registrars, requires that this personal information be accurate
and available for anybody to view on the Internet.
World Wide Web (WWW)
You can think of the Web as a worldwide collection of text and multimedia
files and other network services interconnected via a system of hypertext
documents. Http (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) was created as a means for
sharing data internationally, instantly, and inexpensively. With hypertext,
a word or phrase can contain a link to other text. To achieve this, CERN
developed a programming language called HTML that allows you to easily
link to other pages or network services on the Web.