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HTML Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Sat, 25 May 2013 20:16:06 +0000

Short for Hypertext Markup Language, HTML is what web designers and developers write when they create web pages. HTML isn't really a programming language as it is missing many of the standard features associated with programming languages. It is more a way to describe how things should appear in a [...]

Definition of FTP

Marios Alexandrou — Fri, 17 May 2013 07:29:55 +0000

There are many ways to transfer data from computer to computer over the Internet, but one of the most common is via the file transfer protocol or FTP. Usually, when people say FTP, they're actually referring to a program that uses the protocol to transfer files. These programs are known [...]

eCommerce Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Tue, 07 May 2013 06:38:29 +0000

eCommerce (electronic commerce) is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet, especially the World Wide Web. In practice, this term and a newer term, eBusiness, are often used interchangeably. When the Web first became well-known among the general public in 1994, many journalists and pundits forecast [...]

eBusiness Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Sun, 05 May 2013 06:29:30 +0000

eBusiness (electronic business) is, in its simplest form, the conduct of business on the Internet. It is a more generic term than eCommerce because it refers to not only buying and selling but also servicing customers and collaborating with business partners. IBM, in 1997, was one of the first to [...]

Content Management System (CMS) Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 05:11:59 +0000

A content management system is what allows company employees to publish new content to their websites. These systems eliminate the need for content writers to be concerned with the technical details. And while at first glance, content publishing might not seem like it should be difficult, more detailed examination reveals [...]

Blogging Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:30:22 +0000

Blogging is the verb (action word) that has been coined by people to refer to the act of adding an entry or entries to a blog (see blog definition). Those that actively engage in blogging write entries almost hourly, but there is no rule for how often a blog entry [...]

Blog Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:24:02 +0000

A blog is a lot like a journal except it is generally intended to be read by others. The topics for blogs vary greatly; some being about day to day activities and others taking a more corporate or political slant. There is no defined or widely accepted format and so [...]

World Wide Web Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:29:51 +0000

A technical definition of the World Wide Web is: all the resources and users on the Internet that are using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). A broader definition comes from the organization that Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee helped found, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C): "The World Wide Web is [...]

XML Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:07:05 +0000

Short for Extensible Markup Language, XML is a specification developed by the W3C. XML is intended to be a standard for creating markup languages which describe the structure of data. It is not a fixed set of elements like HTML, but rather, it is a metalanguage, or a language for [...]

Web Services Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:29:59 +0000

Web services (sometimes called application services) are services (usually including some combination of programming and data, but possibly including human resources as well) that are made available from a business's Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs. Providers of Web services are generally known as application service providers. [...]

Definition of Web Portal

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:02:46 +0000

A web portal is a term, often used interchangeably with gateway, for a World Wide Website whose purpose is to be a major starting point for users when they connect to the Web. There are general portals and specialized or niche portals. Some major general portals include Yahoo, CNET, AOL, [...]

Definition of VOIP

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:48:44 +0000

Voice over IP (VOIP) refers to the use of the internet protocol (IP) to transfer voice communications in much the same way that web pages and e-mail are transferred. Each piece of voice data is digitized in to chunks and then sent across the Internet (in the case of public [...]

URL Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:31:47 +0000

A uniform resource locator (URL) is a way of unambiguously describing the location of something on a network. This something can be a web server, printer, ftp server, or even another desktop computer. Most commonly, a URL refers to a website or web page. The URL was a fundamental innovation [...]

Spam Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:34:38 +0000

Generally speaking, spam is unsolicited, bulk e-mail. Similar to how your mailing address is used, an e-mail address gets on to one or more mailing lists which are then used repeatedly to send advertising. Some of the e-mails are legitimate sales offers, but a large portion seem to be of [...]

Social Bookmark Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:30:02 +0000

Social bookmarks are a relatively new phenomenon on the Web. The concept behind this new trend is rather simple which is often the case with good ideas. The general idea behind social bookmarks is that rather than saving a bookmark for a web page in a browser such as Internet [...]

ISP Definition

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 20:02:47 +0000

An Internet Service Provider (ISP) is the company that sits in between the Internet and someone that wants to use the Internet. These companies are often the phone or cable companies themselves, but sometimes they are independent providers of Internet access. Of course, if they're independent vendors they still need [...]

Definition of Intranet

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:58:02 +0000

Many networks exist in the world, often with different hardware and software. People connected to one network often want to communicate with people attached to a different one. This desire requires connecting together different, and frequently incompatible networks, sometimes by using machines called gateways to make the connection and provide [...]

Definition of Internet

Marios Alexandrou — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:51:50 +0000

The Internet, sometimes called simply "the Net," is a worldwide system of computer networks - a network of networks in which users at any one computer can, if they have permission, get information from any other computer (and sometimes talk directly to users at other computers). It was conceived by [...]