| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Bandwidth | How much you can send through a connection. Usually measured in bits per second (bps). |
| Blog | Short for 'web log' - a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and Web links |
| Broadband | Generally refers to connections to the Internet with much greater bandwidth than you can get with a 'dial-up' modem. |
| Browser | A programme (like Internet Explorer) that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources such as web-pages. |
| Cookie | A piece of information that a website stores on your computer to enable it to remember something about you when next you look at that website. |
| Crawler | Same as spider. |
| Cyberspace | Term used to describe the whole range of information resources available through computer networks. |
| Domain name | The unique name that identifies an Internet site. |
| Download | Transferring data (usually a file) from another computer to the one you're using. |
| E-mail | Electronic Mail - messages, often text, sent from one person to another via computer. |
| Flash | A technology that facilitates higly animated or interactive web pages. |
| FTP | File Transfer Protocol - a common method of moving files between computers. |
| Hosting | The housing and electronic publishing of a website complete with e-mail and other associated internet services. |
| HTML | HyperText Markup Language - the coding language used to create documents for use on the World Wide Web. |
| HTTP | HyperText Transfer Protocol - the standard for accessing HTML pages. |
| ISP | Internet Service Provider - an organization that provides access to the Internet in some form. |
| Keyword | The word or words that relate to a particular topic. Keywords or phrases are used to construct search terms to find information. |
| Netiquette | The etiquette of the Internet |
| PPC | Pay Per Click - an approach to search engine marketing where website owners can bid on keywords and pay a set amount for each click. |
| RSS or RSS Feed | Stands for "Really Simple Syndication" (a.k.a. Rich Site Summary). A mechanism for promptly informing a user of pertinent news or other information. |
| SEO
| Search Engine Optimization - a set of methodologies aimed at improving the visibility of a website in search engine listings. |
| Server | A typically remote computer or software running on that computer that provides a service to an end-user. For example, the supply of web pages, e-mail, etc. |
| Spam | Generally refers to electronic junk mail or junk newsgroup postings. Spam (or spamdexing) also refers to mechanisms of artificially boosting a website's ranking on search engines. |
| Spider | Software used by a search engine to crawl all over the web and catalogue it to enable swift response to search requests. |
| Streaming | The act of sending media (audio or video) over the Internet to a user in such a way that it can be viewed / heard seconds after transmission commences and before the entire clip has been sent. |
| Url | Uniform Resource Locator - an address that specifies the location of a file (e.g. web page, picture, etc.) on the Internet. |
| WWW | World Wide Web |
