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Glossary of Internet Terms and Phrases
Cache
- A cache (pronounced CASH) is a place to store something temporarily. The
files you automatically request by looking at a
Web page are stored on your hard disk in a cache subdirectory under the
directory for your
browser (for example, Internet Explorer). When you return to a page
you've recently looked at, the browser can get it from the cache rather than
the original
server, saving you time and the network the burden of some additional
traffic. You can usually vary the size of your cache, depending on your
particular browser.
Source: Dictionary.com
Catch-All
- A program that allows any
email sent to your
domain to go to a particular email address. That allows any email sent
to a misspelled or unused username will still get to a person who can deal
with them.
Certificate Authority
- An entity (typically a company) that issues
digital certificates to other entities (organizations or individuals) to
allow them to prove their identity to others. A Certificate Authority might
be an external company such as VeriSign that offers digital certificate
services or they might be an internal organization such as a corporate MIS
department. The Certificate Authority's chief function is to verify the
identity of entities and issue digital certificates attesting to that
identity.
Source: Dictionary.com
Click-Through
- The action when a user clicks on your search listing and arrives at your
Web site.
Source: Overture.com
Click-Through Rate (CTR)
- The number of clicks of all of your listings in a category received
divided by the number of
impressions received.
Source: Overture.com
Pay Per Click
Ad Management by Light Speed Networks.
Client
- A computer system or process that requests a service of another computer
system or process (a "server")
using some kind of
protocol and accepts the server's responses. A client is part of a
client-server software architecture.
For example, a workstation requesting the contents of a file from a file
server is a client of the file server.
Source: Dictionary.com
Cold Fusion
- An application development tool from Macromedia for writing
Web pages that interact with
databases. Instead of writing tedious
CGI
and
Perl scripts, operations are coded in the ColdFusion Markup Language (CFML)
which uses
HTML-like tags embedded in the Web pages. The ColdFusion engine, which
interfaces with a Windows-based Web server, interprets the codes, accesses
the database and delivers the results as HTML pages for the Web
browser. ColdFusion was originally developed by Allaire Corporation,
Cambridge, MA, which merged with Macromedia in 2001.
Source: TechWeb.com
Cold Fusion
Solutions by Light Speed Networks.
Command Line
- Commands that a user types in in order to run an
application.
Source: Dictionary.com
Comment Tag
- An
HTML tag where you can add your own comments. < !-- Your Comment Here --
> Invisible to your
website visitors and is ideally used to mark sections of your page for
future revision.
Common Gateway Interface (CGI)
- A standard for running external programs from a
World Wide Web
HTTP server. CGI specifies how to pass arguments to the executing
program as part of the HTTP request. It also defines a set of environment
variables. Commonly, the program will generate some
HTML which will be passed back to the
browser but it can also request
URL redirection.
CGI allows the returned HTML (or other document type) to depend in any
arbitrary way on the request. The CGI program can, for example, access
information in a
database and format the results as HTML. A CGI program can be any
program which can accept
command line arguments.
Perl is a common choice for writing CGI scripts. Some HTTP servers
require CGI programs to reside in a special directory, often "/cgi-bin" but
better servers provide ways to distinguish CGI programs so they can be kept
in the same directories as the HTML files to which they are related.
Whenever the
server receives a CGI execution request it creates a new process to run
the external program. If the process fails to terminate for some reason, or
if requests are received faster than the server can respond to them, the
server may become swamped with processes.
In order to improve performance, Netscape devised NSAPI and Microsoft
developed the ISAPI standard which allow CGI-like tasks to run as part of
the main server process, thus avoiding the overhead of creating a new
process to handle each CGI invocation.
Source: Dictionary.com
Compound Document Format (CDF)
- A Compound Document is the W3C term for a document that combines
multiple formats, such as
XHTML,
SVG,
SMIL and
XForms.
Home:
http://www.w3.org/2004/CDF/
Content Management
- Before we can define content management, we first have to find content.
Content is esentially any information, you don't have to work in the media
industry to produce content. Instruction manuals, marketing materials,
customer service e-mails, and invoices are all content. Content management
usually refers to what is now called Web content management —
software, usually driven by a
database, that simplifies and automates the construction of
Web pages.
Source: IntranetJournal.com
See also:
Document Management,
Enterprise Content Management
Content
Management software by Light Speed Networks
Conversion
- A conversion is typically a sale, newsletter sign-up, product
registration, price quote or other type of lead-generation activity.
Source: Overture.com
Conversion Rate
- How many visits to your site converted to a sale or action.
Source: Overture.com
Cookie
- A collection of information, usually including a username and the
current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the
World Wide Web, used chiefly by
websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the
site.
Source: Dictionary.com
Cost Per Acquisition (CPA)
- The amount an advertiser pays to acquire a customer.
Source: Overture.com
Crawler
- Also known as a "Web crawler," "spider," "ant," "robot" (bot)
and "intelligent agent," a crawler is a program that searches for
information on the Web. It is used to locate
HTML pages by content or by following
hypertext links from page to page.
Search engines use crawlers to find new
Web pages that are summarized and added to their indexes.
Source: TechWeb.com
Search Engine Optimization Services by Light Speed Networks
CRM (Customer Relationship Management)
- Enterprise-wide
software applications that allow companies to manage every aspect of
their relationship with a customer. The aim of these systems is to assist in
building lasting customer relationships - to turn customer satisfaction into
customer loyalty.
Customer information acquired from sales, marketing, customer service, and
support is captured and stored in a centralized
database. The system may provide data-mining facilities that support an
opportunity management system. It may also be integrated with other systems
such as accounting and manufacturing for a truly enterprise-wide system with
thousands of users.
Source: Dictionary.com
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
- A simple
stylesheet for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web
documents.
Home:
http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/
Website
Development Services by Light Speed Networks
CSV (Comma-Separated Values) File
- In computers, a CSV (comma-separated values) file contains the values in
a table as a series of
ASCII text lines organized so that each column value is separated by a
comma from the next column's value and each row starts a new line. Here's an
example:
Doe,John,944-7077
Johnson,Mary,370-3920
Smith,Abigail,299-3958
(etc.)
A CSV file is a way to collect the
data from any table so that it can be conveyed as input to another
table-oriented application such as a
relational database application. Microsoft Excel, a leading spreadsheet
or relational database application, can read CSV files. A CSV file is
sometimes referred to as a flat file.
Source: WhatIs.com
Cyberspace
- The electronic medium of computer
networks, in which online communication takes place.
Source: Dictionary.com
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