- Accessibility
Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a system is usable by as many people as possible. In other words, it is the degree of ease with which it is possible to reach a certain location from other locations. It is not to be confused with usability which is used to describe how easily an entity (e.g., device, service, environment) can be used by any type of user. Accessibility can also be viewed as the "ability to access" the functionality, and possible benefit, of some system or entity; such a definition brings in access-based individual rights laws and regulations. One meaning of accessibility specifically focuses on people with disabilities and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive devices such as screen-reading web browsers or wheelchairs.
Accessibility is strongly related to universal design when the approach involves "direct access." This is about making things accessible to all people (whether they have a disability or not). However, products marketed as having benefited from a Universal Design process are often actually the same devices customized specifically for use by people with disabilities. An alternative is to provide "indirect access" by having the entity support the use of a person's assistive technology to achieve access (e.g., screen reader).
- Active Server Page (ASP)
- Simple Definition :
a webpage that is created by the web server, according to user inputs, each time it is requested.
Technical Definition :
Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an add-on to Internet Information Services (IIS).
Programming ASP websites is made easier by various built-in objects. Each object corresponds to a group of frequently-used functionality useful for creating dynamic web pages. In ASP 2.0 there are six such built-in objects: Application, ASPError, Request, Response, Server, and Session. Session, for example, is a cookie-based session object that maintains variables from page to page. Application Center Test is also available for load testing.
Most ASP pages are written in VBScript, but any other Active Scripting engine can be selected instead by using the @Language directive or the<script language="language" runat="server">syntax. JScript (Microsoft's implementation of ECMAScript) is the other language that is usually available. PerlScript (a derivative of Perl) and others are available as third-party installable Active Scripting engines. - Address Bar
- The input on a web browser where a URL may be entered. Also refers to the e-mail address input in an e-mail message composer.
Firefox Address Bar
Microsoft Outlook Address Bar
- Band Width
- The amount of data that can be passed along a communications channel in a given period of time. Website hosting packages include an amount of data transfer per month. This data includes the webpages in your website that your visitors view. If a visitor views ten webpages that are each 5kB in size, that visitor has used 50kB of data transfer or bandwidth, plus external data.
- Bit
- A fundamental unit of information having just two possible values, either of the binary digits 0 or 1.
- Browser
- A web browser is a
software application that enables a user to display and
interact with text, images, and other information typically
located on a
web page at a
website on the
World Wide Web or a local area network. Text and images
on a web page can contain
hyperlinks to other web pages at the same or different
website. Web browsers allow a user to quickly and easily access information provided on many web pages at many
websites by traversing these links. Web browsers format
HTML information for display, so the appearance of a web
page may differ between browsers.
Web browsers available for personal computers include Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Netscape, and Opera in order of descending popularity (as of August 2006). Web browsers are the most commonly used type of HTTP user agent. Although browsers are typically used to access the World Wide Web, they can also be used to access information provided by web servers in private networks or content in file systems.
- Byte
- A sequence of 8 bits (enough to represent one character of alphanumeric data) processed as a single unit of information
- Cascading Style Sheet (CSS)
- An extension to HTML allowing styles such as color, fonts, size, and position to be specified for certain elements of a hypertext document. Style information can be included in-line in the HTML file or in a separate CSS file (which can then be easily shared by multiple HTML files). Multiple levels of CSS can be used to allow selective overriding of styles. This separation of content and style allows for a much higher degree of efficiency and compatibility.
- cc Bar
- This is the input on an e-mail server’s ‘new’ or ‘compose’ user interface where the user may specify an additional e-mail address for the e-mail message to be sent, in addition to the main 'send to' address. Origin being the paper Carbon Copy.
- Client
- Refers to a client side system. Also referred to as user side system.
- Client Application
- A client application refers to an addition to the client-side system, enabling further capabilities.
- Client-Side
- Refers to the user’s system, the device being used to view a webpage, often referred to as a user agent.
- Coding
- The creation of code, code being that which makes up a program or application.
- Content
- The information made available by a website including written material, links, and images.
- Database
- A comprehensive collection of related data organized for convenient access by other programs.
- Description
- Description is synonymous with style, style being the description of the content, where items are located on the webpage, type of fonts and colors, sizes, and other attributes.
- Design intent
- A statement describing the main goals or intent of a website.
- more info - - Developer
- Describes the organization that creates, implements, and maintains a website. This includes the initial construction and continued improvements, in order to reach the design intent goals.
- Digital Format
- A format for display through digital electronic devices.
- Domain Name
- A unique and friendly name used to replace the IP address throughout a website, making it more user-friendly. Example: efficientpresence.com or gentledoberman.com
- Domain Name Host
- The organizations, such as namecheap.com, that register domain names and manages domain name servers.
- Domain Name server
- The web server that forwards the user from the friendly domain name URLs to the actual URLs in the website.
- Dynamic Hypertext Markup Language (DHTML)
- DHTML refers to a collection of technologies used to create interactive and animated web pages using a combination of markup language, such as (X)HTML, and scripting language or CSS, or both
- Dynamic Webpage
- A webpage that uses server side programming which enables the web server to produce a new webpage each time it is requested according to user inputs, such as on an e-commerce or interactive website.
- E-Commerce
- Electronic commerce, the buying and selling of goods and services via communication systems. Most often refers to websites where users can make purchases.
- Effectiveness
- Refers to the ability of a website to accomplish its design intent.
- Messages sent using HTTP between mail servers, much like a standard post letter but sent over the internet.
- Extensibility
- Extensibility is the ability to extend usefulness into future improvements and innovations.
- E-mail Account
- Accounts on an e-mail server that enable a user to send and receive e-mail messages with other e-mail accounts on the internet.
- E-mail Address
- An address assigned to a particular e-mail account, similar to a domain name URL but pointing to a space on an e-mail server. Example: spam@efficientpresence.com
- E-mail Message Composer
- A program that allows users to easily create an e-mail message.
- E-mail Server
- Programs, similar to web servers, that handle e-mail accounts and e-mail messages.
- Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
- A reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML. In other words, an updated version of HTML that maintains a separation of content and style, enabling the language to be more compatible with a variety of user agents. XHTML is a key to the future of internet usability, accessibility, and effectiveness.
- Extensible Markup Language (XML)
- A W3C-recommended general-purpose markup language for creating special-purpose markup languages, capable of describing many different kinds of data. In other words, XML is a way of describing data.
- File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
- A client-server protocol which allows a user on one computer to transfer files to and from another computer over a TCP/IP network such as the internet.
- Gigabytes (GB)
- A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 megabytes (230 bytes).
- Glossary
- An organized list of terms and their definitions. On a website a glossary can also be linked to terms throughout the website.
- Graphics
- Digital images.
- Hand Held Device
- Refers to small user agents such as mobile phones and PDAs.
- Home Page
- Initial or main webpage on a website that introduces the website to the user and provides an organized interface though which all other viewable webpages may be accessed.
- Host
- An organization that maintains web servers or mail servers or both, and usually offers space and accounts on these servers for a fee.
- HTTP Server Software
- A server or other program that uses HTTP, such as Web Server programs.
- Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML)
- A set of standards used to tag the elements of a hypertext document, was the standard for documents on the World Wide Web but is now being replaced by XHTML.
- Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
- A protocol for transferring hypertext documents, the standard protocol for the World Wide Web.
- Hypertext
- A way of organizing material that attempts to overcome the inherent limitations of traditional text, in particular its linearity.
- Internet
- A large computer network linking smaller computer networks worldwide.
- Internet Information Services (IIS)
- A set of Internet-based services for servers using Microsoft Windows.
- Internet Protocol (IP)
- The network layer for the TCP/IP protocol suite widely used on Ethernet networks, defined in STD 5, RFC 791. IP is a connectionless, best-effort packet switching protocol. It provides packet routing, fragmentation and re-assembly through the data link layer.
- JavaScript
- JavaScript is the name of Netscape Communications Corporation's implementation of the ECMAScript standard, and an object oriented scripting language. The language is best known for its use in websites, but is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications.
- Keyword
- Words that are important to the subject of a website that a user might search for using a search engine.
- Key Word Analysis
- A process for determining which of your key words would best be focused on for search engine optimization.
- kilobytes (kB)
- A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,024 (210) bytes.
- Link
- An object, such as text or graphics, linked through hypertext to a document or another object.
- Markup Language
- Combines text and extra information about the text, such as structure and presentation.
- Megabytes (MB)
- A unit of computer memory or data storage capacity equal to 1,048,576 (220) bytes.
- Message Area
- This is the input on an e-mail server’s ‘new’ or ‘compose’ user interface where the user may enter the actual e-mail message.
- News Page
- A regularly updated webpage containing the organization's news articles, current events, and accomplishments.
- Online Form
- A group of inputs that allow a webpage to gather information in an organized format. The information can also be checked and either sent to a database or on an e-mail.- Example -
- Open Source
- Referring to software, open source describes a software application whose source code, the basic functional elements of the program, are freely available to the public.
- Page (Screen) Reader
- A page reader, or screen reader, refers to an application that converts text-based electronic documents into audio language, enabling a user to listen to a document rather than only being able to read it. This type of technology has been used successfully for persons with physical limitations preventing them from reading text-based documents effectively. However, these same technologies are becoming more popular with the average person for use in situation where reading a document is not feasible or convenient, such as when operating an automobile.
- Page Layout
- When used with regard to a website refers to a particular webpage layout or format.
- Example - - Personal Digital Assistant (PDA)
- An electronic device which can include some of the functionality of a computer, a mobile phone, a music player or a camera, or combination there of.
- Photo Editing
- The process of optimizing a photo for presentation on the World Wide Web.
- PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP)
- A server-side, cross-platform, HTML-embedded scripting language used to create dynamic webpages. PHP is open source software.
- Primary Pages
- These webpages represent the main subjects of a website and often carry sub categories.
- Programming Language
- An artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer.
- Raster Graphic
- A raster graphic is an image made up of colored dotes.
- Scripting Language
- A programming tack that connects diverse pre-existing component to accomplish a new related tacks.
- Search Box
- A text input that allows a user to enter a word or phrase and search the website for related topics.
- Search Engine
- A system, accessible by users through a search website such as google.com, that allows the user to search a network or the internet for specific words and phrases. Often used to refer to the search websites or search systems interchangeably.
- Search Engine Optimization
- The process of optimizing webpages for high popularity in search engines.
- Search Engine Popularity (Ranking)
- Refers to the ranking of a webpage by a search system for a term or phrase, determining how high on the list of webpages it appears, returned to the user after a search request.
- Search System
- A program that ranks webpages according to key words and phrases, compiles these rankings, and allows users to search these rankings for webpages containing these key words and phrases.
- Search Website
- A website containing a user interface to access and perform key word and phrase searches on a search system, which then displays the results.
- Secure Socket Layer (SSL)
- Is a cryptographic protocol which provides secure communications on the internet for such things as e-mail, Internet faxing, and other data transfers.
- Server (Disc) Space
- Space on a web server, usually measured in GB, available for website files.
- Server Side Programming
- Server Side Programming involves programming the web server to perform tasks, in particular creating web pages and working with data. This is done with different programming languages and scripting languages, and is how highly interactive websites are created.
- Server-Side
- Refers to activities performed by the web server and programs it contains.
- Shopping Cart
- A name given to systems that organize and simplify making purchases via the World Wide Web.
- Style
- Description, such as where items are located on the webpage, type of fonts, colors, sizes, and other attributes, of the website's content.
- Style Sheet
- Files containing the style elements of a website such as a .css file.
- Sub-Domain
- A domain name usually serving as a sub-category under a root domain name.
- Subject Bar
- This is the input on an e-mail server’s ‘new’ or ‘compose’ user interface where the user may specify the subject of the e-mail message.
- Table
- When used in the context of website technology, a table refers to a system of (X)HTML tags that organize content into a table.
- Text Editor
- A text editor is a simple and commonly available application for the creation of plain text files.
- Uniform Resource Location (URL)
- A protocol for specifying website addresses on the Internet, starting with ‘http://’, then the IP address or domain name, followed by the name of any containing folders, and the file name.
- Update
- Changes made to a website in order to reflect changes in the organization that it represents or to improve its performance.
- Uptime
- The percentage of time that a web server is running and available to serve files.
- Usability
- Refers to the effectiveness of the user interface in allowing users to perform the design intent of the website.
- User
- A person using a system such as a visitor to a website.
- User Agent
- Device used to request files from a website.
- User-Friendly
- The philosophy of designing a system with the user in mind in order that the system be appealing and easy to use.
- User Interface
- The set of controls or links that enable the user to navigate the website and its applications.
- VBScript
- VBScript (short form of Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsoft's Windows Script Host.
- Vector Graphic
- Vector graphics (also called geometric modeling or object-oriented graphics) is the use of geometrical primitives such as points, lines, curves, and polygons, which are all based upon mathematical equations to represent images in computer graphics.
- Visitor
- A user accessing a website.
- Web Server Program
- Refers to the web server program itself, as well as other programs that work with it.
- Webpage
- Refers to a viewable file within a website.
- Web Server
- A computer that is responsible for accepting HTTP requests from clients, which are known as web browsers or user agents, and serving them webpages; which are usually HTML, PHP, or ASP documents and linked objects such as images, style sheets, and external applications.
- Website
- A collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or sub-domain on the World Wide Web on the Internet.
- Website Address
- The information, URL, used to request a webpage from a web server. Example: http://www.efficientpresence.com/glossary.htm
- Website Construction
- The initial creation stage of website development.
- Website Design
- The aesthetic component of website development.
- Website Designer
- Person or organization that is responsible for the aesthetic elements of the website development process.
- Website Developer
- A website developer is a person or organization responsible for creation and maintenance of a website.
- Website Development
- The process of constructing and maintaining a website.
- World Wide Web (WWW)
- A system of extensively interlinked hypertext documents: a branch of the Internet.
