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Apache |
Apache is the most widely used web server on the Internet. The August 2002 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache. Its popularity stems from its flexibility and proven reliability.
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Bobby |
Bobby is a web accessibility software tool designed to help expose and repair barriers to accessibility and encourage compliance with existing guidelines. Bobby tests for compliance with Government and W3C WAI’s standards.
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Browser |
Short for Web browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The most popular browser is Internet Explorer.
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Client |
The client part of a client-server architecture. Typically, a client is an application that runs on a personal computer or workstation and relies on a server to perform some operations. For example, an e-mail client is an application that enables you to send and receive e-mail.
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Content Management |
Web content can be articles, pictures, products, email archives, Flash presentations, streaming audio, whatever. This content needs a lot of things done to it. You might need systems for creating the content (authoring), describing it (metadata tagging), changing and updating it (editing), letting several people edit it together (collaboration), letting the right people do the right things to it (workflow), stopping the wrong people from manipulating it (security), keeping track of how it has changed (versioning and archiving), deciding when to display it (scheduling), displaying it in the right standard format (templating), allowing it to be displayed by others (syndication), allowing it be displayed differently to different visitors (personalisation) and more theming etc. Managing these processes is Content Management.
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Device |
Any machine or component that attaches to a computer.
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DDA |
The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 aims to end the discrimination which many disabled people face. This Act gives disabled people rights in the areas of: employment, access to goods, facilities and services and buying or renting land or property.
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EasyEdit Technology |
eShopworks proprietary content editing and web publication tool served to end users via a WYSIWYG Microsoft-style interface for ease-of-use.
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E-GIF Framework |
E-GIF is the acronym for the e-Government Interoperability Framework. Compliance with the e-GIF is mandatory for public sector IT projects and procurements. Source www.egifcompliance.org.
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Extranet |
A buzzword that refers to an intranet that is partially accessible to authorized outsiders. Whereas an intranet resides behind a firewall and is accessible only to people who are members of the same company or organization, an extranet provides various levels of accessibility to outsiders.
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Firewall |
A system designed to prevent unauthorized access to or from a private network.
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Gif |
A bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web.
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HTML |
Short for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the World Wide Web.
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HTTP |
Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web. HTTP defines how messages are formatted and transmitted, and what actions Web servers and browsers should take in response to various commands. For example, when you enter a URL in your browser, this actually sends an HTTP command to the Web server directing it to fetch and transmit the requested Web page.
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Intranet |
A network based on TCP/IP protocols (an internet) belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization.
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IIS |
Short for Internet Information Server, Microsoft's Web server that runs on Windows Platforms.
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IP Address |
An identifier for a computer or device on a TCP/IP network.
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Jpeg |
Short for Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG is a compression technique for colour images.
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LDAP |
Short for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a set of protocols for accessing information directories.
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PDA |
Short for Personal digital assistant, a handheld device that combines computing, telephone/fax, Internet and networking features.
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RSS |
Rich Site Summary, an XML format for syndicating Web content. A Web site that wants to allow other sites to publish some of its content creates an RSS document and registers the document with an RSS publisher. A user that can read RSS-distributed content can use the content on a different site. Syndicated content includes such data as news feeds, events listings, news stories, headlines, project updates, excerpts from discussion forums or even corporate information.
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Semantic Web |
The Semantic Web is a vision of the next generation Internet as intelligently linked, agent-driven, structured collections of machine-readable information.
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Server |
A computer or device on a network that manages network resources.
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SMTP |
Short for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another; the messages can then be retrieved with an e-mail client.
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SSL |
Short for Secure Sockets Layer, a protocol developed for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that’s transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL.
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Syndication |
The sharing of content among different Web sites.
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TCP/IP |
Abbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol, the suite of communications protocols used to connect hosts on the Internet.
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Theme Engine |
A proprietary technology developed by eShopworks that intelligently associates metadata (data about data) to all content that exists on a website.
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Thumbnail |
A miniature display of a page or image to be printed to a website.
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URL |
Abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator, the global address of documents and other resources on the World Wide Web.
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XML |
Short for Extensible Markup Language, a specification developed by the W3C. It allows designers to create their own customized tags, enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations.
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XHTML |
Short for Extensible Hypertext Markup Language, a hybrid between HTML and XML specifically designed for Net device displays.
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XSLT |
Short for Extensible Style Language Transformation, the language used in XSL style sheets to transform XML documents into other XML documents.
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W3C |
Short for World Wide Web Consortium, an international consortium of companies involved with the Internet and the Web. The W3C was founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee, the original architect of the World Wide Web.
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WAI |
Short for the Web Accessibility Initiative, an initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium launched in 1997 to ensure that as the Internet grows in usage Web sites are designed to accommodate people with disabilities.
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WAP |
Short for the Wireless Application Protocol, a secure specification that allows users to access information instantly via handheld wireless devices such as mobile phones.
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WML |
Short for Wireless Markup Language, an XML language used to specify content and user interface for WAP devices such as mobile phones.
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WYSIWYG |
Short for What You See Is What You Get. A WYSIWYG application is one that enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document is printed.
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