The following is a list of definitions for various technologies that we may have mentioned throughout this website.

Domain Name – A domain name represents a website to the outside world. Usually ending in .com for businesses primarily in the United States.

HTML – Hypertext Markup Language – The language used to “mark up” text documents so that they can be formatted appropriately and linked to other documents for use on the World Wide Web.

FTP – An Internet service for publishing or transferring files between different machines, such as from a Developer’s computer to a web server, including those that run different operating systems.

CGI – Common Gateway Interface script – A program used to transfer data from an HTML form to an application. The CGI script runs on the server that hosts the webpage that has the form.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets - A cascading style sheet is a document containing style information that can be referenced by multiple Web pages.  Styles define appearance and formatting of content on Web pages and allow authors more control over how content is displayed in browsers.  They are often used for such things as rollover effects on hyperlinks, various font style and color settings, and more. 

FrontPage Extensions - By using Web Components in Microsoft FrontPage, you can add a wide variety of features to your Web site, ranging from hit counters that register the number of visitors to a page and collecting data with contact forms, to photo galleries that display a collection of graphics.

Java Applet – A programming language that supports the creation of distributed programs, called applets, whose functionality can be easily and flexibly split between a client computer and the server that it is connected to.

Perl – Practical Extraction and Report Language – An elegant programming language often used to write CGI scripts.

PHP – PHP Hypertext Processor – An open source programming language for connecting websites with databases of MySQL and other formats.

MySQL – An open source database format.

Macromedia Flash – Web multimedia animations, videos, audio, and complete websites that are generally dynamic, streaming, or run off of a server.

DHTML – Dynamic HTML – Webpage content that changes each time it is viewed through the use of JavaScript as well as new HTML extensions that enable webpage reaction to user input without contacting the server.

JavaScript – Specialized programming language for building programs that are embedded in an HTML document and perform simple tasks; not related to Java.

Real Audio / Video – Streaming web audio and video formats from Real, Inc.

QuickTime – A multiplatform standard from Apple Computer, Inc., for multimedia.

QuickTime VR – A multiplatform standard for image-based virtual reality from Apple Computer, Inc.