- autoresponders -
- sends an automated email response to incoming email sent to a
specific address. One autoresponder per email address.
- bookmark link -
- a link to another place within your website
- browser -
- software programs that reads HTML files and displays web
pages on computer monitors
- data transfer per month -
- — monthly traffic allowance is calculated based on the
daily traffic allowance
 times 31
- — each time a web page, image, audio, video, and other
elements of your web
site is accessed by your visitor, traffic is
generated
- — daily data transfer allowance is such that most of our
users stay within the
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- disk space -
- used to store everything related to your website such as your
regular HTML files, images, multimedia files, anonymous FTP files, POP mail
messages, cgi-scripts and any other files that make up your website
- domain name -
- an easy to remember Internet address in plain alphabet which
computers will translate into a numeric IP address
- domain name registration -
- The process of reserving your selected domain name with
The Internet Corporation for
Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)
- domain name system (DNS) -
- a system that maps uniquely hierarchical names to specific
Internet addresses
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- e-commerce -
- the term use for exchange of merchandise and services using
the Internet
- .gif -
- the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is the file format
commonly used to display indexed-color graphics and images in hypertext markup
language (HTML) documents over the World Wide Web and other on-line
services
- graphic element -
- a file that creates a visual image in a website
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- home page -
- the common name for the first page that appears when your URL
is typed into a browser, also known as the main page, default page or index
page
- hosting -
- — the placement a website on a computer that is
connected to the
Internet so that web surfers can access the site
- — it is essentially like renting space on a computer
that is connected to the
World Wide Web
- HTML -
- the programming language used for marking up text so that
browsers know how to display that text
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- ICAAN -
- Formed in October 1998, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
Numbers is a non-profit, private sector corporation with a volunteer board
of directors. ICANN was formed with the chief responsibility for coordinating
four key functions for the Internet: the management of the Domain Name system,
the allocation of IP address space, the assignment of protocol parameters, and
the management of the root server system
- image map -
- a single graphic image containing several programmed links to
different places on the Internet
- IP address -
- a computer's unique numeric address on the Internet (IP
stands for "Internet Protocol")
- .jpg -
- the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG) format is
commonly used to display photographs and other continuous-tone images in
hypertext markup language (HTML) documents over the World Wide Web and other
on-line services
- keyword -
- a word that appears on a web page, or in META data, that is
used by search engines to identify relevant URLs
- link -
- — a programmed portion of a web page, contained within
either text or
graphics, that provides a connection to another place on the
Internet
— clicking on the link area causes the browser to download and
display the
section of the Internet web page that is programmed within the
link
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- META tags -
- provides non-viewable information about your web page to
browsers and search engines
- navigation -
- — the mean by which website visitors move around a
website
- — examples are: scrolling down the page or clicking on
buttons
- navigation button -
- an HTML derived or graphic image, containing a programmed
link to another place on the Internet
- POP3 email accounts -
- your email mail boxes on our server that can be securely
accessed to retrieve your mail, anywhere you have access to the Internet, using
such programs as Eudora, Outlook Express and Netscape Mail
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- on-line form -
- a form that is programmed into a web page and can be
completed and submitted on-line by a site visitor
- outside website -
- any website other than your own
- scan -
- the process of converting physical images (photographs, text
pages and line drawings) to an electronic file format using a scanning
device
- shopping cart -
- — keeps track of what your customers have ordered
on-line as they add and
remove items from their virtual "shopping cart"
- — when the customer is ready to check out, the program
tallies the order
for your customer to review
- — if the customer decides to submit the order, the
program will email
the order information to the email address of your choice
as a "receipt"
for your customer
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- secure server (SSL) -
- — a method of ensuring that information entered through
your web
site is protected
- — information submitted via a secure form is sent to the
server in
an encrypted mode
- search engine -
- a website that provides an interactive means of retrieving
web pages containing specific parameters from the World Wide Web
- search engine submission -
- the process of registering a web URL with a specific search
engine
- sub-category page -
- any page on your website that is not the first page that
appears when your URL is typed into a browser
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- sub-domain name -
- — a non-registered website name under the
www.JSwebsolutions.com
website domain name
- — for example: www.JSwebsolutions.com/my_company
- 3-month sub-domain hosting -
- — essentially it is "renting" space for three (3) months
on our computer that
is connected to the World Wide Web using a non-registered
website
name under the www.JSwebsolutions.com website domain name
- — for example:
www.JSwebsolutions.com/new_years_eve_party
- URL -
- an Internet or Intranet address, typically a text string,
containing information about the protocol by which a file can be accessed
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