(Audio Interchange File Format) An audio format mainly used by Apple (Mac) designers.

(Advanced Streaming Format) An audio format used to stream a constant flow of sound to your computer.

(Active Server Pages) A suffix on web page names that signify that the page will enact a certain action before loading the page in the browser.

(Audio Video Interleaved) A format of video made for the web.

A “movie” made in Macromedia Flash.  This “movie” is in raw form and is usually quite large in size.

(Graphics Interchange Format) A graphic image such as buttons, banner ads, and logos.

(Joint Photographic Experts Group) A photo quality image.  These images are usually photos.

(Metal Oxide Varistor) A video format created by Apple (Mac) designers.

An audio format that is quite common on the internet.

(Motion Picture Enhancement Group) A video format commonly seen on the internet.

(Portable Network Graphics) A raw image (graphic) file.  Quite large in size but is usually edited to be a .GIF before published to the web.

A final copy of a Flash “Movie”.  This format is published to the web.

(Tagged Image File Format) A raw Graphic image.  A lot of scanners use this format.

An audio file commonly used on the web.

(Windows Media Audio) This is a Microsoft design audio/video format that is half the size of a MP3.

The amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time. For digital devices, the bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second (bps) or bytes per second. For analog devices, the bandwidth is expressed in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz).

The name given to graphics on the web.  They include JPEG and GIF formats.

A specific area on a page (such as a paragraph title) that you want people to go to with just a click of the mouse.  This is used if the information is quite long and you do not want people to have to scroll through a long list.

The computer program that allows you to surf the net.  The two most common are Microsoft Explorer, Mozilla FireFox and Netscape.  Approximately 80-85% of all web users are using Microsoft Explorer.

The common unit of computer storage from micro to mainframe. It is made up of eight binary digits (bits). A ninth bit may be used in the memory circuits as a parity bit for error checking.  A byte holds the equivalent of a single character, such as the letter A, a dollar sign or decimal point. For numbers, a byte can hold a single decimal digit (0 to 9), two numeric digits (packed decimal) or a number from 0 to 255 (binary numbers).
<<1 Byte = 8 Bits, 1 KByte = 1024 Bytes, 1 MB = 1 Million Bytes>>

(Cascading Style Sheets) Gives web site developers more control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These style sheets can then be applied to any Web page. The term cascading derives from the fact that multiple style sheets can be applied to the same Web page.

(Document Object Model) This means that we are developing a model in which the document or Web page contains objects (elements, links, etc.) that can be manipulated.

The name of you web site.  (IE: www.yourbusiness .com)  The domain name is attached to your server location by the IP address.

In a database, it would be you defined columns.  You would specify the type of information you would need to place in each column.  (IE: Last name, First name, address, etc…)

When a web designer will make rigid borders on a page.  By creating rigid borders on your page, you can leave certain items on the screen while the surfer changes other items.  (IE: Navigation bar will remain but the pages you are looking at will change)

(File Transfer System)  A protocol used to transfer files over a TCP/IP network (Internet, UNIX, etc.). For example, after developing the HTML pages for a Web site on a local machine, they are typically uploaded to the Web server using FTP.

When you graphically pick a certain area of a picture to link to another page or web site.

(Hyper Text Markup Language) The document format used on the World Wide Web. Web pages are built with HTML tags, or codes, embedded in the text. HTML defines the page layout, fonts and graphic elements as well as the hypertext links to other documents on the Web. Each link contains the URL, or address, of a Web page residing on the same server or any server worldwide, hence "World Wide" Web.

(Hyper Text Transport Protocol) The communications protocol used to connect to servers on the World Wide Web. Its primary function is to establish a connection with a Web server and transmit HTML pages to the client browser.

A predefined linkage between one object and another. The link is displayed either as text or as an icon. On World Wide Web pages, a text hyperlink displays as underlined text typically in blue, while a graphical hyperlink is a small graphics image.

An organization that provides access to the Internet. Small Internet service providers (ISPs) provide service via modem and ISDN while the larger ones also offer private line hookups (T1, fractional T1, etc.). Customers are generally billed a fixed rate per month, but other charges may apply.

A popular scripting language that is widely supported in Web browsers and other Web tools.

Apple Macintosh computers

One million bytes, or more precisely 1,048,576 bytes.

The act of changing one graphic image into another.

(Practical Extraction Report Language) A programming language written by Larry Wall that combines syntax from several UNIX utilities and languages

The smallest addressable unit on a display screen. The higher the pixel resolution (the more rows and columns of pixels), the more information can be displayed.  Monitors are usually set at 800 x 600 pixels.

(Relational Database Management Systems) A program that allows you to catalog many different items and have them work together.  (Such as Access)

Each individual item in your database.  (IE: Customer’s name, order number, item number, etc…)

Software that searches for data based on some criteria.  (IE: Lycos, Yahoo, Altavista, Excite, etc…)

A computer in a network shared by multiple users. The term may refer to both the hardware and software or just the software that performs the service.

A secure HTTP server used for e-commerce sites.

Also known as an ant, robot ("bot") and intelligent agent, a Spider is a program that searches for information on the World Wide Web.  Commonly used by search engines to find sites.

(Structured Query Language)  A language used to interrogate and process data in a relational database.

Data crossing a network. Traffic is a very general term and can refer to transactions and messages of any kind.

A multi-user, multitasking operating system that is widely used as the master control program in workstations and especially servers.

(Uniform Resource Locator) The address that defines the route to a file on the Web or any other Internet facility. URLs are typed into the browser to access Web pages, and URLs are embedded within the pages themselves to provide the hypertext links to other pages.

(Visual Basic Script) A programming language for World Wide Web applications from Microsoft. It is an extension to Microsoft's Visual Basic language. VBScript is widely used as the scripting language in Active Server Pages (ASPs).

In computer graphics, a line designated by its end points (x-y or x-y-z coordinates). When a circle is drawn, it is made up of many small vectors.

(Extensible Markup Language) It is used for defining data elements on a Web page and business-to-business documents. It uses a similar tag structure as HTML; however, whereas HTML defines how elements are displayed, XML defines what those elements contain. HTML uses predefined tags, but XML allows tags to be defined by the developer of the page.