Terms

Animation — A simulation of movement created by displaying a series of pictures, or frames. Flash animations are widely used because they can also contain sound and video clips, but the depend on the user having a Flash plug in. Animated GIF images are another format that contains multiple images assembled into one file. Flash gives a more sophisticated finished feel, but animated gifs will be visible in more browsers.

Banner — A banner is a typically rectangular advertisement placed on a Web site either above, below or on the sides of the Web site’s main content. Banner design is a balance between drawing the web surfers eye and making them want to click away to another page to avoid it. When designing a banner, knowing the dimensions before hand is everything.

Blog — The term "blog" is a blend of the words web and log (Web log). "Blog" can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog. In November 2006, blog search engine Technorati was tracking more than 57 million blogs. —From Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

Browser — Software that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources. Most computers come with a browser already installed, but alternate or additional browsers can be downloaded from the internet. Common browsers would be Safari, Internet Explorer, FireFox, and Netscape.

Animated Gif — A type of GIF image that can be animated by putting several images together in a single file. When the images are viewed, they cycle through the combined images. This gives the illusion of motion, or animation. Animated GIF format is by most Web browsers.

Cookie — is a little piece of information handed to a WWW client by a WWW server that contains information that can be retrieved by the server later. For instance, a server can hand your browser a cookie when you fill out a form stating your preferences for visiting that server. Then, the next time you visit the site, the server can read your preferences from the cookie it put in your browser on the first visit, and customize the appearance of the web site to your preferences. A cookie can also be called a Persistent Client Side State Object.

Copyright — The legal ownership of a “work,” which may be: written text, program source code, graphics, images, sculpture, music, sound recording, motion picture, pantomime, choreograph and architecture.

Domain Name — The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots.

Download — Transferring data (usually a file) from a another computer to the computer you are are using. The opposite of upload.

Ecommerce —Electronic Commerce is analogous to a marketplace on the Internet. Electronic Commerce consists primarily of the distributing, buying, selling, marketing and servicing of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks.

Flash — is a widely used authoring software, developed by Macromedia, it is used to create vector graphics-based animation, with navigation interfaces, graphic illustrations, and simple interactivity in an antialiased, resizable file format. Think of Flash as a 'window' that is displayed within the HTML environment. You have complete control of the window. You can display animations. You can make the animations clickable. You can make text move and change. Flash is very fast because it draws graphics on the fly, rather than storing text or graphics as complete images. (Although Flash can also display photographic images and illustrations). Flash gives you much more creative room than HTML, but it requires a 'plug-in', a piece of code on your computer that runs Flash. The newer browsers automatically come with Flash. If your user has an older browser, and they don't already have Flash, they will be asked to download it. If they agree to download Flash, they will be sent to the Macromedia site where they will need to click on a few things to receive Flash.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) — A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. Some internet browsers have the capability of functioning like an FTP client, but in most cases a FTP client is needed.

HTML email —  
Pros: HTML Email can be visually exciting, with the use of images, colors and styled text, it may include live hyperlinks, and allows the tracking of click-throughs on ads.
Cons: Not all Email programs are capable of viewing HTML Email properly. For more information on this please see the "Interactive Emails" section.

Home Page — The main web page for a business, organization, person. This is the page that automatically shows when typing in a web address.he main web page for a business, organization, person.

Host — Any computer on a network that is a repository for services available to other computers on the network.

IP Number (Internet Protocol Number) — Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots, e.g.

ISP (Internet Service Provider) — An institution that provides access to the Internet in some form, usually for money. Examples: Cox, Verizon, AT&T and so on. . .

Login Noun or a verb — Noun: The account name used to gain access to a computer system. Not a secret (contrast with Password). Verb: the act of connecting to a computer system by giving your credentials (usually your “username” and “password”).

Navigation — Navigation bars provide a way for visitors to navigate between a site’s main sections. A navigation bar often extends along the top or side of a Web page and include text, images or animations.

Pay Pal — is an account-based system that lets anyone with an email address securely send and receive online payments. It is a popular way to electronically pay for auctions and it is becoming a cheap way for merchants to accept credit cards on their online storefronts.

PDF (Portable Document Format) — A file format designed to enable printing and viewing of documents with all their formatting on the same on Windows or Macintosh computer.

Rollover — Even though the term button is sometimes used to describe a rollover object, rollover objects do not have to look like traditional buttons. A rollover is any object that changes in appearance when the user points to it or clicks it. Streaming

Video — Streaming video is a sequence of "moving images" that are sent in compressed form over the Internet and displayed by the viewer as they arrive. Streaming media is streaming video with sound. With streaming video or streaming media, a Web user does not have to wait to download a large file before seeing the video or hearing the sound. Instead, the media is sent in a continuous stream and is played as it arrives. File types can include (but are not limited to) Flash, QuickTime, and Windows Media Player.

Web page — A web page, is a document that contains text and graphical information that can be accessed through the internet through a web browser. Usually, web pages are stored as HTML documents on a web server.

Web site — The entire collection of web pages and other information (such as images, sound, and video files, etc.) that are made available through what appears to users as a single web server.

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