subject: Computer Vs Internet Glossary [print this page] When using computers and the Internet in your business, it is very easy to begin to feel like you're drowning in a sea of nonsense. Computer-related things tend to have a language all their own, and then you do not need to know all this, and there are many confusing words and phrases you will encounter sooner or later. A brief overview.
Bandwidth. Bandwidth is the amount of data your website can be sent to every second, and the amount of data that the visitor to your web site can get. If you do not have enough bandwidth, then the site will appear slowly. For this reason, you should choose a host with a lot of bandwidth, and tests that your site does not take too long to load on slow connections.
Browser. Browser is a program (see below) that site visitors use to view. The most popular browser is Microsoft Internet Explorer, which comes with Windows.
The cake. Cookies are data files that can save your computer to anyone visiting this site to enable them to remember who they are in the case of their return. And you will find that people are facing problems in arranging almost inevitably you're connected cookies - they need to have them in.
Loading. Transfer data from one location on a computer.
Ad. The favorite is a website that the user store to look again, and choosing "Add to Favorites" menu of your browser.
FTP. FTP. This is a common method of file (see below) to download from your website.
JavaScript. A common language for writing scripts sites, which are small programs that make the site more interactive. Another reason of the common problems for visitors.
JPEG. Photographic Experts Group. This is the name of the most popular format for images on the Internet, named after the group that came with it. If you want to put pictures on your website, you must save it as JPEG.
Materials. This equipment computers physically located. The opposite is true of the program.
Housing. If you have a website out there on the Internet, then you will have to pay a sum of money for hosting. This is the service to make your site accessible to people to see.
HTML. Hypertext Markup Language. A type of symbols used to indicate how you should not display web pages, using a system of "tags" small. Mark "B", for example, causes the text that appears dark, and "IMG" tag displays a picture.
The hyperlink. A hyperlink is when you can click on a piece of text on a Web site to take you to another site or another page in the site itself. For example, if the title of your e-mail by clicking on your web site allows a person to send you an email, then your e-mail is a hyperlink.
Programming. This is when the computer is instructed to tell him what to do, using one of the many programming languages. Programming languages for the web include PHP, and Perl.
The server. The server where you store your web site, this is a server that connect people when they visit the site. If someone says, for example, your server is "down", it means that your site is not accessible. Note that the server refers to both hardware and software on this system.
The program. Programs that are running on your computer, or make your work site. Microsoft Word is a program, for example, as is Apache (web server software the most popular). In front of the device.
Spider. Do not be afraid if the spider to visit your web site! Spiders are simply programs used by the search engines to scan your site and help them decide where it should appear when you search for people. It's good to be visited by spiders, because it means you should start to appear in the search engines soon.
Are loaded. Transfer when you transfer data from your computer to your web site. For example, you can upload your logo, or an article you wrote. Reverse loading.
URLs. Uniform Resource Locator. This is simply a way as to say that the "Internet address", which means you need to write to get to your website. Pronounced in some cases, the name of "Earl."
