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Web Glossary Terms alphabetical shortlist (Some of Main Web Design Terminology)<\/p>\n
AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) Adobe Air Android<\/strong> Apache<\/strong> API (Application Programming Interface)<\/strong> ASP (Active Server Pages)<\/strong> Bandwidth<\/strong> Blog (Web Log)<\/strong> CGI (Common Gateway Interface)<\/strong> ColdFusion<\/strong> CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)<\/strong> DBA (Data Base Administrator)<\/strong> DHTML (Dynamic HTML)<\/strong> DNS (Domain Name Service)<\/strong> DOM (Document Object Model)<\/strong> Domain Name<\/strong> DTD (Document Type Definition)<\/strong> FTP (File Transfer Protocol)<\/strong> FTP Server<\/strong> HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)<\/strong> HTML DOM (HTML Document Object Model)<\/strong> HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)<\/strong> JavaScript<\/strong> JScript<\/strong> JSP (Java Server Pages)<\/strong> Meta Tags<\/strong> MySQL<\/strong> Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language)<\/strong> PHP (PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor)<\/strong> POP (Post Office Protocol)<\/strong> Redirect<\/strong> Search Engine<\/strong> SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language)<\/strong> SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)<\/strong> SQL Server<\/strong> SSI (Server Side Include)<\/strong> SSL (Secure Socket Layer)<\/strong> SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics)<\/strong> TCP\/IP (Transmission Control Protocol \/ Internet Protocol)<\/strong> VBScript<\/strong> W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)<\/strong> XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language)<\/strong> XML (Extensible Markup Language)<\/strong> Source:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.w3schools.com\/web\/web_glossary.asp<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Web Glossary Terms alphabetical shortlist (Some of Main Web Design Terminology) AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) The “art” of using JavaScript and XML to create interactive web applications. With…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Web_Glossary_Terms.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wRFx-7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saedx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/strong>The “art” of using JavaScript and XML to create interactive web applications. With Ajax, web applications can exchange data with a web server in the background (asynchronously) and update parts of a web page without reloading the page.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>An Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) system that enables developers to use web technologies (HTML, JavaScript, Flash) to create desktop applications.<\/p>\n
\nA mobile phone operating system developed by Android Inc, later purchased by Google.<\/p>\n
\nAn open source web server. Mostly for Unix, Linux and Solaris platforms.<\/p>\n
\nAn interface for letting a program communicate with another program. In web terms: An interface for letting web browsers or web servers communicate with other programs.<\/p>\n
\nA Microsoft technology allowing the insertion of\u00a0server executable scripts in web pages.<\/p>\n
\nA measure for the speed (amount of data) you can send through an Internet connection. The more bandwidth, the faster the connection.<\/p>\n
\nA type of website (most often maintained by an individual) with a log of comments (most often personal) comments, meanings, descriptions of events, etc.<\/p>\n
\nA set of rules that describes how a CGI program communicates with a web server. CGI program is a small program that handles input and output from a web server. Often CGI programs are used for handling forms input or database queries.<\/p>\n
\nWeb development software for most platforms (Linux, Unix, Solaris and Windows).<\/p>\n
\nA W3C recommended language for defining style (such as font, size, color, spacing, etc.) for web documents.<\/p>\n
\nThe person (or the software) who administers a database. Typical task are: backup, maintenance and implementation.<\/p>\n
\nA term commonly to describe HTML content that can change dynamically.<\/p>\n
\nA computer program running on a web server, translating domain names into IP addresses.<\/p>\n
\nA programming model for web page objects. (See HTML DOM and XML DOM)<\/p>\n
\nThe name that identifies a web site. (like: saedx.com)<\/p>\n
\nA set of rules (a language) for defining the legal building blocks of a web document like HTML or XML.<\/p>\n
\nOne of the most common methods for sending files between two computers.<\/p>\n
\nA web server you can logon to, and download files from (or upload files to). Anonymous FTP is a method for downloading files from an FTP server without using a logon account.<\/p>\n
\nHTML is the language of the web. HTML is a set of tags that are used to define the content, layout and the formatting of the web document. Web browsers use the HTML tags to define how to display the text.<\/p>\n
\nA programming interface for HTML documents.<\/p>\n
\nThe standard set of rules for sending text files across the Internet. It requires an HTTP client program at one end, and an HTTP server program at the other end. HTTPS (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure)<\/b>
\nSame as HTTP but provides secure Internet communication using SSL.<\/p>\n
\nThe most popular scripting language on the internet, developed by Netscape.<\/p>\n
\nMicrosoft’s version of JavaScript.<\/p>\n
\nA Java based technology allowing the insertion of\u00a0server executable scripts in web pages. Mostly used on Linux, Unix and Solaris platforms.<\/p>\n
\nTags inserted into documents to describe the document.<\/p>\n
\nFree open source database software often used on the web.<\/p>\n
\nA scripting language for web servers. Most often used on Unix servers.<\/p>\n
\nA technology allowing the insertion of\u00a0server executable scripts in web pages. Mostly for Unix, Linux and Solaris platforms.<\/p>\n
\nA standard communication protocol for retrieving e-mails from an e-mail server.<\/p>\n
\nIn web terms: The action when a web page automatically forwards (redirects) the user to another web page.<\/p>\n
\nComputer program used to search and catalog (index) the millions of pages of available information on the web. Common search engines are Google and AltaVista.<\/p>\n
\nAn international standard for markup languages. The basis for HTML and XML.<\/p>\n
\nA standard communication protocol for sending e-mail messages between computers<\/p>\n
\nA database system from Microsoft. Mostly used on high traffic web sites running on the Windows platform.<\/p>\n
\nA type of HTML comment inserted into a web page to instruct the web server to generate dynamic content. The most common use is to include standard header or footer for the page.<\/p>\n
\nSoftware to secure and protect web site communication using encrypted transmission of data<\/p>\n
\nA W3C recommended language for defining graphics in XML.<\/p>\n
\nA collection of Internet communication protocols between two computers. The TCP protocol is responsible for an error free connection between two computers, while the IP protocol is responsible for the data packets sent over the network.<\/p>\n
\nA scripting language from Microsoft. VBScript is the default scripting language in ASP. Can also be used to program Internet Explorer.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The organization responsible for managing standards for the WWW.<\/p>\n
\nIn Web terms: To display a web page being edited exactly the same way it will be displayed on the web.<\/p>\n
\nHTML reformulated as XML. Developed by W3C.<\/p>\n
\nA simplified version of SGML especially designed for web documents, developed by the W3C.<\/p>\n