Terms Q-Z
Redirect
A piece of code that sends the surfer to a different place.
robots.txt
Text file placed in a webpage used to communicate with spiders.
Search Engine
Web site people use to find other websites
Secure server
Server that supports security protocols like SSL, SHTTP, PCT and
IPSec
Server-side
Web site sits on the sever side and your computer is on the client-side.
Client side is anything that is done on your local computer
Spider WebCrawler
A program which crawls through the internet feeding information
about web pages to search engine databases.
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
Encrypts data to transfer it safely across the network
Streaming
The user can start displaying the data before it is fully downloaded.
Great for transferring video and audio files because these are
usually very large files. RealAudio offers the most famous products
for this.
Table
Used in HTML to design web pages. In HTML blank spaces are not
seen so in order to space out a webpage properly the easiest way
is to use tables.
UNIX
Operating system used by many servers. Most servers are either
UNIX or Microsoft.
URL Uniform Resource Locator
First part identifies which protocol to use and the second identifies
the domain name or IP address. Example http://www.discoveryvip.com
Unique visitor
Measured according to their IP address. Even if the person returns
to a web page already visited they are counted as only one unique
visitor.
XML (eXtensible Markup Language)
A language specialized for Web documents, enabling the creation
of tags customized to the company's needs and business logic.
It not only has data but also contains metadata. It uses DTD and
SCHEMA to describe the data |
