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| 03/07/2009 15:19 - Website Terminology |
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Web Glossary
Read through our web glossary of definitions and simple explanations of key internet phrases & technical terms:
Website Hosting - This is placing a web page or website on the 'world wide web' allowing anybody to gain access to your site, giving your business greater exposure. To do this you need someone to host your website on their commercial web server.
Domain Names - this is the name of your website for example www.designerwebsites.co.nz. You may have more than 1 domain name per website, companies do this to gain greater search results for their website.
Address Bar - The space on the top of your browser that lets you type in the URL of a website
Blog - A blog (short for "web log") is a type of web page that serves as a publicly accessible journal for an individual. Typically updated daily, blogs often reflect the personality of the author
Browser - A software program that lets you see and hear what's on the web. Examples include Moxilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer
Content management system (C.M.S) – a tool that allows you to update your own website without needing the expertise of a web designer. You have access to make changes to the content of your web pages yourself.
Download/upload - To download is to transfer a file from another computer to the user's computer. To upload is to send a file to another computer
e-commerce - Performing business transactions on the Internet - which may include the use of credit cards, 'shopping trolleys', forms, and secure servers
Flash Animation - or images that move on your screen is usually created using the Macromedia Flash programme, hence referring to it as just ‘Flash’ (and it does look pretty ‘flash’ too!)
Gigabyte (GB) - A measurement of storage space. Equal to a thousand megabytes
Home page - The first page of a web site, the one you see when you enter into the address bar of your browser only the domain name of a web site
HTML - HyperText Markup Language. It's the type of language used to write web pages. HTML can be used to make items bold, underlined, and much more using special tags
Hyperlink - This will take you from one Internet site to the next with a simple click of your mouse. You can usually tell where a hyperlink is because the writing will look different. For instance, some links appear in bold, some are underlined, and some are even attached to pictures. Also called a link
ISP - Internet Service Provider - a company (like IHUG or XTRA) that can provide you with access to the Internet
Java a - programming language used to create cool things on web pages such as animation and sounds
.jpg or .jpeg - Stands for Joint Photographics Experts Group, it's often used to put photos up on the web.
Megabyte - A measure of storage space. 1 Mb roughly translates to a million characters of text, or 180,000 words.
Meta tags – these are key phrases or key words we attach (behind the scenes) to your site which are logged with search engines.
Menu - a list of information that leads to documents or other menus.
.nz - the New Zealand domain
Search engine - Uses a robot or computer to search for words or topics on a certain web site, or all over the web
Search engine optimisation (SEO) - The process of selecting targeted keywords that reflect the content of a website, placing them within the meta tag, and testing the search engine results to make sure the site is well placed based on the keywords you selected
Spiders - Computer robot programs, referred to sometimes as "crawlers" or "knowledge-bots" or "know-bots" that are used by search engines to roam the World Wide Web via the Internet, visit sites and databases, and keep the search engine database of web pages up to date
Traffic - The number of people cruising through a site for a given time. Traffic can be tracked by the day, hour, month, or even the year
Title - (of a document) Is what appears in the top bar of the window when you display the document and it is the title that appears in search engine results
URL - Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. It's the address of a site that appears on the World Wide Web. The URL is the name that appears in the address bar that tells your browser where you want to go. (e.g. www.designerwebsites.co.nz)
www - (World Wide Web) An interface or system that connects you to other computers all throughout the world.
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