Glossary

Imagine: you are talking to another person and do not understand even a half of the words he or she tells you although you are speaking the same language. I think everyone in his or her life has gone through this. The problem is that you do not know what all those words and terms related to some topic mean.

Certainly, today almost everyone knows words "Internet", "information retrieval system" or "web site". That is why when everything comes to site development (for example, for a company), people do not think that there can be something difficult to understand. But when they turn to the developers they realize that do not understand half of the things they hear.

Truly, there exist lots of words and terms that are understood only by experts in the area these words are related to. We care for our clients and suggest you looking through the glossary of the most widely used terms.

ASP (Active Server Pages) is a server-side scripting technology that can be used to create dynamic and interactive Web applications. An ASP page is an HTML page that contains server-side scripts that are processed by a Web server before being sent to the user's browser.

Browser is a client software that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources.

CMS — Content Management System is the system which is aimed at web site management without special knowledge and skills. Site management is conducted via web-interface.

Content is a text and graphic information reflected on the site.

Database is a collection of information organized into interrelated tables of data and specifications of data objects.

Domain is a scheme for indicating logical and sometimes geographical venue of a web-page from the network. Common domains are .edu (education), .gov (government agency), .net (network related), .com (commercial), .org (nonprofit and research organizations). Domains indicating country: ca (Canada), uk (United Kingdom), au (Australia), jp (Japan), fr (France), ru (Russia) etc.

Domain name is the unique name that identifies an Internet site, contains a domain and a unique name of organization, for example: dev4masses.com

Flash is a technology of Web animation and interactive content creation. It is used to create animation splash screens, web games, interactive site elements, etc.

Home Page is the starting point of a Web presence. It is a sort of table of contents for everything that is on the Web site, offering direct links to the different parts of the site.

Hosting is a Web hosting provided a UNIX/WINDOWS server and networking that allows the public Internet, or private Intranet, to access your pages. The scripts for web applications and e-commerce also reside on a hosting server. All web sites must be hosted, whether on your own internal servers or through the 3rd party hosting services.

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is a programming language used to build Web sites; it defines how the Web pages will look and how the visitor will be able to move around the Web site.

HTTP (HyperText Transport Protocol) is the protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet.

JAVA is a programming language that is used to create executable content (i.e. self-running applications) Developers use Java to create special programs that can be incorporated in Web pages to make them interactive.

JavaScript is a scripting language that allows dynamic behavior to be specified within HTML documents

Middle part is the part of the site (several sections), which is accessible only for registered users.

Module is a part of a program. Programs are composed of one or more independently developed modules that are not combined until the program is linked. A single module can contain one or several routines.

Perl is a programming language with strong capability to process text.

PHP is a server-side, HTML-embedded, open source scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages.

Public part is an external part of the site, accessible for all users.

Script is a type of program that consists of a set of instructions for another application or utility to use.

Tag is an HTML element, a text in angle brackets. It is an active element which changes the way information following this text is represented. Usually there are two tags: opening and closing.

Unix is a popular multi-user, multitasking operating system.

URL is the address for a resource or site (usually a directory or file) on the World Wide Web.

URL of a web site starts with the http:// prefix, just like in our URL: http://www.dev4masses.com. It can be more precise and indicate the name of hyper text page.

Web-site is a collection of HTML documents or Web pages, that are linked together, have similar design and exist on the Web at a particular server.