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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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W3C
W3C stands for the World Wide Web Consortium, an international organization comprised of members, staff, and the general public, which develops web based standards.
Web Analytics
The process of measuring the activity and performance levels of a website, by analyzing web traffic via browser tags, server log files, search log files, cookies, and custom-written scripts.
Web Directory
Directory on the web server containing the web documents for the web site.
Web File
File containing the source code for the web document. Also known as a web page.
Web Form
Text boxes on the web, where users enter in data for submission. An example of a web form is a search bar.
Web Page
Document accessible using HTTP. Also know as a web file.
Web Server
An application connected to the Internet that responds to requests by clients for documents (web pages). Most web servers also act as mail servers and FTP servers.
Web Traffic
Refers to the number of visitors and the total number of pages they visit. Keeping an eye on web traffic levels is important to assess what pages are doing well and what pages are not.
Web Traffic Log
The combined web traffic of a site.
Webmaster
The person responsible for maintaining and updating a web site.
WYSIWYG
Acronym for "what you see is what you get." A WYSIWYG editor allows web designers to create web pages quickly via a GUI drag and drop interface, so they can see the end result while the document is still being created.
XHTML
Short for "Extensible Hypertext Markup Language." A reformulation of HTML 4.0 as an application of the Extensible Markup Language (XML). XHTML creates dynamic pages that a web server can serve.
XML
Short for "Extensible Markup Language." A flexible way to create common information formats and shares both the format and the data on the World Wide Web, intranets, and elsewhere. XML is "extensible" because, unlike HTML, the markup symbols are unlimited and self-defining. XML is actually a simpler and easier-to-use subset of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML), the standard for creating a document structure. It is expected for XML and HTML to be used together in many web applications.
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