Glossary
Bandwidth

.COM

DHTML

Domain name

eCommerce

E-mail

E-mail address

FTP

FTP Server

GIF

Home Page

HTML

Internet

ISP

JPEG and JPG

Meta Tags

Search Engine

SEO

SSL

Streaming

Streaming Format

URL

Web Browser

Web Host

Web Hosting

Web Site

WWW



Bandwidth
Bandwidth is a measure for the speed (amount of data) you can send through an Internet connection. The more bandwidth you have, the faster the connection.

.COM
On the Internet, "com" is one of the top-level domain names that can be used when choosing a domain name. It generally describes the entity owning the domain name as a commercial organization. Along with the second-level domain name (for example: "bayluna" in bayluna.com), the top-level domain name is required in Web and e-mail addresses.  Other top level domain names are, gov, edu , org, mil, net, ca, and th.

DHTML
Dynamic HTML, or DHTML, is an umbrella term for a collection of technologies used together to create interactive and animated web sites by using a combination of a static markup language (such as HTML), a client-side scripting language (such as JavaScript), a presentation definition language (such as CSS), and the Document Object Model.

Domain name
Domain name is a name that identifies one or more IP addresses   For example, the domain name microsoft.com represents about a dozen IP addresses.  Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Web pages   For example, in the URL http://www.baluna.com/index.html, the domain name is bayluna.com.  Every domain name has a suffix that indicates which top level domain (TLD) it belongs to. There are only a limited number of such domains. For example:
8 Gov   Government agencies
8 edu   Educational institutions
8 org   Organizations (nonprofit)
8 mil    Military
8 com  commercial business
8 net    Network organizations
8 ca     Canada
8 th     Thailand
Since the Internet is based on IP addresses, not domain names, every Web server require a Domain Name System (DNS) server to translate domain names into IP addresses.

eCommerce
Electronic commerce, commonly known as (e-shopping) e-commerce or eCommerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. The amount of trade conducted electronically has grown extraordinarily with widespread Internet usage.

E-mail
E-mail stands for Electronic Mail and are Messages sent from one person to another via the Internet.

E-mail address
E-mail Address is the address used for sending e-mails to a person or an organization. Typical format is username@hostname.

FTP
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol is one of the most common methods of sending files between two computers.

FTP Server
A web server you can logon to, and download files from (or upload files to). Anonymous FTP is a method for downloading files from an FTP server without using a logon account.

GIF
GIF stands for Graphics Interchange Format is a compressed format for storing images developed by CompuServe. One of the most common image formats on the Internet.

Home Page
Home Page is the top-level (main) page of a web site. The default page displayed when you visit a web site.

HTML
HTML, which stands for HyperText Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to create structured documents by denoting structural semantics for text such as headings, paragraphs, lists etc as well as for links, quotes, and other items. It allows images and objects to be embedded and can be used to create interactive forms.  It is written in the form of HTML elements consisting of "tags" surrounded by angle brackets within the web page content.

Internet
The Internet is a global system of inter-connected computer networks that use the standard Internet Protocol Suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope that are linked by a broad array of electronic and optical networking technologies. The Internet carries a vast array of information resources and services, most notably the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support electronic mail.

ISP
ISP stands for Internet Service Provider and is someone that provides access to the Internet and web hosting.

JPEG and JPG
JPEG or JPG, are Graphic formats for storing compressed images.

Meta Tags
Meta Tags are tags inserted into documents to describe the document.  Information inside a Meta element describes the document's keywords.

Search Engine
Search Engine is a computer program used to search and catalog (index) the millions of pages of available information on the web. Common search engines are Google and AltaVista.

SEO
SEO, which stands for Search Engine Optimization and is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site or a web page (such as a blog) from search engines via "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results as opposed to other forms of search engine marketing (SEM) which may deal with paid inclusion. The theory is that the earlier (or higher) a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, video search  and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

SSL
SSL, which stands for Secure Socket Layer is software to secure and protect web site communication using encrypted transmission of data.

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We at Bayluna Unlimited can make arrangements for this service, if required.  This option is normally only needed if your web site includes eCommerce.

Streaming
Streaming is a method of sending audio and video files over the Internet in such a way that the user can view the file while it is being transferred.

Streaming Format
Streaming Format is the format used for files being streamed over the Internet such as Windows Media, Real Video and QuickTime.

URL
URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator and is a web address.  The standard way to address web documents (pages) on the Internet (like: <http://www.bayluna.com/>)

Web Browser
Web Browser is a software program used to display web pages such as Microsoft’s, Internet Explorer.

Web Host
Web Host is a web server that "hosts" web services like providing web site space to companies or individuals.

Web Hosting
Web Hosting is the action of providing web host services.

Web Site
Web Site is a collection of related web pages belonging to a company or an individual.

WWW
WWW, which stands for the World Wide Web is commonly known as The Web and is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks. Using concepts from earlier hypertext systems, English engineer and computer scientist Sir Tim Berners Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, wrote a proposal in March 1989 for what would eventually become the World Wide Web.  He was later joined by Belgian computer scientist Robert Cailliau while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed using "HyperText [...] to link and access information of various kinds as a web of nodes in which the user can browse at will", and released that web in December.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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