Technical Terms E-K
E-commerce:E-commerce functionality allows for online purchases of items or services by credit card or PayPal payment.
Email: Email is the process of sending messages in electronic form over the internet that can include text, images and video files.
Email Forwarding: Email Forwarding redirects email from one email address to another email address. This service accommodates customers who want to continue using their personal email, but would like a more business-identified address for their clients to reference.
Favicon: A Favicon is a small graphic that appears to the left of the web address in the address bar.
Firewall: A Firewall secures a network and protects it from access by unauthorized viewers.
Footer: The Footer is the bottom portion of the blog or website that lists navigation and copyright information.
Flash: Adobe's popular animation software which displays a moving or changing sequence of graphics. Flash has limitations in serch engine indexing.
Forum: A Forum is a Web site where users post messages and replies on topics of interest.
Front Page: a widely known HTML editor created by Microsoft for building websites.
FTP(File transfer protocol): is a way to transfer files across the Internet.
FTP user: The FTP user is the user account to upload to a website.
Guest Book: An area on a website where site visitors leave their name and information or feedback related to the site content.
Header: the top portion of a blog that lists the blog title. It is also a common term for the top portion of a website and it's content.
Hit Counter: keeps a record of how many hits a Web page receives. It does not necessarily track unique visitors.
Hosting: the storage space on a hosting server for a Website to reside and be accessible on the Internet.
HTML (HyperText Markup Language): is a simple markup language used in writing website documents.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol): is the set of regulations for making the transfer of files on the World Wide Web.
Hypertext: documents containing links that allow the reader to move easily from one document to another. Links are sometimes referred to as "hyperlinks."
ICANN (the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers): is a non-profit corporation given responsibility from the US Government to manage the Internet domain name system.IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol): retrieves mail and views or manipulates it on the server.
Index Page: a default page (home page) displaying automatically when the top level of a web site is accessed by a user. Most Index Pages are named index.htm or index.html.
Intranet: a large internal network usually established by companies to improve communication efficiency. The access to Intranets are restricted to authorized users.
IP Address: a set of numbers divided by periods that specifies a location for the TCP/IP Protocol. For exampe 248.116.53.185 is an IP address.
ISP (Internet Service Provider): provides the user with Internet services.
Java: a number of computer programs that together provide a source for developing cross-platform applications.
Joomla: a free, open source content management system (CMS) coded with PHP for publishing content on the Internet and Intranets.
JSP (Java Server Pages): a technology for controlling the content or appearance of web pages and generating XML.