Website Glossary > Definitions of Web Design Terms

ADWORDS > To appear in Google Sponsor Listings

• A form of sponsored advertising on Google using pay-per-click ads to generate trageted traffic to your site... more

BACK LINKS > Get Back Links to get higher PagrRank

• Links from other relevant websites to your website... more

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) > Front end coding > Design: CSS + Content: HTML > Static Website

• A external style sheet used to store the structure and formating of your web pages... more

CMS (Content Management System) > Back end programming > Dynamic Website

• A software that enables one to add and/or manipulate and update content on a web site... more

DOMAIN NAME > Use a Registrar Company to register it

• The name of your website, for example: www.danielmrey.com... more

DYNAMIC WEBSITE > Back end programming > Code: PHP + Database: MySQL

• A site where the content is created dynamically from a data base instead of being stored in static web pages... more

ECOMMERCE (Electronic Commerce) > Back end programming > Dynamic Website

• On Line Shop or Commercial activity conducted via the Internet... more

FLASH > Animated Pages

• Technology that uses a free plug-in to allow your browser to display animations Flash movies... more

HAND CODING > Cleaner and faster code

• A programmer with sufficient knowledge in a particular language can write that code using just a text editor... more

HOSTING SPACE > Use a Webhosting Company to buy it

• Physical space in a server computer to store all the files to make your website accesible to all Internet... more

HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) > Front end coding > Content: HTML + Design: CSS > Static Website

• It is the predominant markup language to create structured web pages... more

MySQL (Structured Query Language) > Back end Programming > Dynamic Website

• Free and open source relational Database management system... more

PAGE RANK > Get Back Links to get higher PagrRank

• A score that Google gives your web page depending on the quality and quantity of your inwards links... more

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) > Back end programming > Dynamic Website

• Free server side scripting language originally designed for programming Dynamic web pages... more

SANDBOX > New websites have to wait to be indexed by Google

• The effects of not appearing in search listings seen with new websites in Google's search results... more

SEARCH ENGINE SPIDER > The Spider will index your site in Google

• The robot that Google send out to crawl the web by going from website to website via links... more

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) > To appear in Google Natural Listings

• The process of optimizing your website to appear in a better position within the natural listings... more

SITE SUBMISSION > Let Google knows that your site exists

• The submission of your website to the different search engines... more

STATIC WEBSITE > Front end coding > Content: HTML + Design: CSS

• A website that is updated manually via the use of software or hand coding to create HTML code... more

VALIDATION > Follow the W3C quidelines

• The process of ensuring that a website conforms to the rules and guidances laid out to ensure its accesibility... more

W3C (World Wide Consortium) > Validation

• Consortium where the rules and guidelines for accesibility are agreed... more