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glossary
(glos'a-ri) n., a dictionary of technical words for a given work.
Use our glossary to help better understand some of the words used when discussing the various aspects of web development that are not necessarily part of one's common vocabulary.
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TCP/IP
Short for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol. A protocol between computers that allows them to communicate and transfer data over a network. TCP/IP is the standard for Internet connected machines.
Title
Short for HTML "title tag." Title tags are one of the most important textual content elements to the search engines. Adding relevant key terms to the title tag is a favorable factor the search engines look at when indexing web sites.
Traffic
The amount of active visits to a web site, from both human and non-human visitors.
URL
Short for Uniform Resource Locator. This is the address used to locate documents on a network, such as the Internet. The URL also specifies the transport protocol to be used to serve the document.
URL Encoding
The technique that passes parameters to the scripts that output dynamically generated web documents. The parameters start after a "?" symbol, are followed by the parameter's name, then a "=" symbol, and finally, the value of the parameter variable.
USENET
A decentralized popular networked BBS, or bulletin board system, with thousands of news groups on a multitude of topics.
User
A unique individual that accesses a web site.
User-Agent
Application used to make requests for information from remote computers. A web browser is the user-agent that acts as an interface between the user and the server, providing the user with the information contained on that server.
A user-agent is also a search engine spider, or other application, that makes requests for information on the Internet.
Username
Unique identifier for a system account. When used with a password, the username allows a user to access specific resources within a computer network or system.
Validator
An HTML validator is used to verify if Hyper Text Markup Language meets World Wide Web Consortium standards (W3C).
Virtual IP
An IP address determined by the web sever internally. Used by hosting companies to cluster many different web sites within a limited IP block.
Visitor
Refers to a user coming to a web site from the same IP.
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