GLOSSARY

This is a partial list of terms and abbreviations frequently used in the web development field which you may encounter during the design of your website.

Bandwidth - Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can travel a communications path in a given time, usually measured in seconds. If you think of the communications path as a pipe, then bandwidth represents the width of the pipe that determines how much data can flow through it all at once. Bandwidth: the capacity that a telecommunications medium has for carrying data. For analog or voice communication, bandwidth is measured in the difference between the upper and lower transmission frequencies expressed in cycles per second, or hertz (Hz). For digital communication, bandwidth and transmission speed are usually treated a synonyms and measured in bits per second.

Banner - Also referred to as a banner ad, a banner is a typically rectangular advertisement placed on a Web site, either above, below, or on the sides of the Website's main content and is linked to the advertiser's own Website.

Browser - Very often called Web browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The most popular browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Safari, Mozilla Firefox, and Netscape Navigator. There are many other browsers like AOL Browser, Opera, NeoPlanet and many others.