Here is a of basic terms relating to web design, online and offline promotion, world wide web and information technology. Click on the links below to access the categories of your choice, you will then be presented with a choice a articles to browse through.
This is a great resource for beginners to assist you in making the right choice for your web design needs or simply to familiarize yourself with the world wide web.
11. Definition Macro Automation (Glossary/InformationTechnology)
Macro Automation
A macro in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence (often a sequence of characters) should be mapped to an output sequence (also often a sequence of characters) according to a defin...
12. Localization (Glossary/InformationTechnology)
Internationalization and localization
Internationalization and localization[1] are means of adapting products such as publications, hardware or software for non-native environments, especially other nations and cultures.
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13. Link Popularity (Glossary/Online Promotion)
Link Popularity
Link popularity is a measure of the quantity and quality of other web sites that link to a specific site on the World Wide Web. It is an example of the move by search engines towards off-the-page-criteria to determine qualit...
14. Link Baiting (Glossary/Online Promotion)
Link bait is any content or feature within a website that somehow baits viewers to place links to it from other websites. Attempts to create link bait are frequently employed in the overall task of search engine optimization. Matt Cutts defines lin...
15. Joomla CMS (Glossary/InformationTechnology)
Joomla CMS
Joomla! is a free, open source content management system written with PHP for publishing content on the world wide web and intranets, using the MySQL database. Joomla! includes features such as page caching to improve performance...
16. Web Directories (Glossary/Internet)
Web Directories
A web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web. It specializes in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links.
A web directory is not a search engine, and does not display lists of web pages based on ...
17. HTML Tags (Glossary/Web Design)
HTML Tags
HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as...
18. Sandbox Effect (Glossary/Web Design)
The Sandbox Effect
The Sandbox Effect is a theory used to explain certain behaviours observed with some Internet search engines. The Sandbox Effect is the theory that websites with newly-registered domains or domains with frequent ownership...
19. GNU (Glossary/InformationTechnology)
GNU Licence
GNU (pronounced /gnu/ (help·info)) is a computer operating system composed entirely of free software. Its name is a recursive acronym for GNU's Not Unix, which was chosen because its design is Unix-like, but differs from Un...
20. Internet Forums (Glossary/Internet)
Internet Forums
An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as web forums, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic) discussion groups, dis...