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.
Search Engine - A program that performs searching on documents for specified terms or phrases and returns a list of the documents where those terms were found. Search Engines are lately referred to Internet Search Engines. Most popular search engines today are Google, Yahoo!, AskJeeves, MSN, AllTheWeb, Excite, Lycos, AOL, HotBot, and AltaVista.
Search Engine Optimization - Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an act of increasing the number of visitors to a particular Website by adding appropriate keywords and phrases, and therefore ranking high in the search results. The higher a Website ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that your site will be found by a search user. For general and competitive websites it takes a lot of professionalism to tweak the web site in order to be well optimized and search engine friendly.
Server - As the name implies, a server serves information to computers that connect to it. When users connect to a server, they can access programs, files, and other information from the server. Common servers are Web servers, mail servers, and LAN servers. A single computer can have several different server programs running on it.
Spam - Spam is unsolicited e-mail on the Internet. From the sender's point-of-view, it's a form of bulk mail, often to a list obtained from a spambot or to a list obtained by companies that specialize in creating e-mail distribution lists. To the receiver, spam usually seems like junk e-mail. Spam is roughly the equivalent to unsolicited telephone marketing calls except that the user pays for part of the message since everyone shares the cost of maintaining the Internet. Spammers typically send a piece of e-mail to a distribution list in the millions, expecting that only a tiny number of readers will respond to their offer. Spam has become a major problem for all Internet users.
SSL - (pronounced as separate letters) Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL uses a cryptographic system that uses two keys to encrypt data - a public key known to everyone and a private or secret key known only to the recipient of the message. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with “https:” instead of “http:”
Submission Form - Forms are web page "fields" for a user to fill in with information. Online Forms or Submission Forms are an excellent way of collecting and processing information from people visiting a website, as well as allowing them to interact with web pages. Forms are written in HTML and processed by CGI programs. The output can be sent as an e-mail form, stored online, printed, and/or returned to the user as an HTML page.
