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Active Server Pages See ASP Views: 284

Ajax Short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, it is a term that describes a new approach to using a... Views: 283

Animated GIF A type of GIF image that can be animated by combining several images into a single GIF file.... Views: 311

Applet An applet is a small executable module, that normally doesn't have the complete features and user... Views: 305

ASP / ASPx Active Server Pages - Microsoft NT scripting language which allows YOU to design web pages that... Views: 296

Atom (1) When written as AToM, it is short for Any Transport over MPLS, a technology developed by... Views: 307

Audio Streaming The process of providing audio clips or content via a web page. Views: 287

b-blog Short for business blog, a blog used by a business to promote itself. Views: 348

Backbone A high-speed line or series of connections that forms a major pathway within a network. The term... Views: 300

Bandwidth How much data you can send through a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A full page... Views: 300

Blog (n.) Short for Web log, a blog is a Web page that serves as a publicly accessible personal... Views: 301

CGI Common Gateway Interface - A set of rules that describe how a Web Server communicates with... Views: 290

FTP Accounts Short for File Transfer Protocol, FTP is used for downloading and uploading files (and web pages)... Views: 319

GIF Pronounced jiff or giff (hard g) stands for graphics interchange format, a bit-mapped graphics... Views: 291

Mailing List A Mailing List is a group of email addresses identified by a single address, such as... Views: 288

Monthly Bandwidth Allowance Bandwidth refers to the amount of data transferred in a number of situations not only limited to... Views: 311

MySQL Databases MySQL ( pronounced “my ess cue el” ) is a web application for processing the data... Views: 317

PHP ( scripting language ) PHP is a script language much like HTML. Used in conjunction with HTML, PHP is used to generate... Views: 320

POP email Accounts A POP email account is different to regular web-based email (such as hotmail). POP is an Internet... Views: 279

Secure Server A Secure Server allows for a website that supports major web security protocols to protect... Views: 312

Sub-Domains A Sub-Domain is like a hierarchy to your website's structure. An example of your main web site... Views: 310

Web Storage Space Just as on your home or work computer, website files are all measured in Bytes(B) and... Views: 307