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The list could go on and on, but these are some of the standard terms that you may find yourself using when dealing with web hosting. We may expand the listing with other terminologies, if needed. Otherwise, we recommend perusing through the internet for some online resources that can help you with the terminologies, if you are not familiar with them.
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Web Architecture is the colloquial term for Information Architecture applied to the web, which describes the combination of organizing a site's content into categories and creating an interface to make those categories easily assimilated by the user, having as a main goal to reach the optimal point of information understanding.
Information architects map the structure of sites and organizes the location of pages within sections, developing a functional and intuitive navigational plan to get the user to specific information using the optimal path.
Graphic Design is many things and is everywhere. While its benefits can be found in any visual thing humans make, it also guides our perception to understand something through the splattered vision of the graphic designer. Graphic design is complex combinations of thoughts, techniques, needs, desires and usefulness that orchestrate a piece that will be consumed visually and must tell in a particularly distinctive, or useful, or joyful, or grotesque, or politically, or whatever way parties involved agree, something to the graphic consumer. In the web, it helps sites to be successfully understood and remembered.
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Web Hosting is a term used to define the service that host your web site files in computers conected to the Internet in order to be viewed with web browsers, such as Communicator or Explorer. It usually provides customers with several features such as POP email, ftp and more. Visit HostingBiz for detailed info.
ISP - Internet Service Provider provides connectivity, usually via modem and dialup lines, using your standard phone line, to the Internet.
IPP - Internet Presence Provider provides presences on the Internet, usually provides web hosting and e-mail services (such as HostingBiz).
WWW - World Wide Web refers to the vast web sites and such that span the Internet
POP E-mail, Post Office Protocol E-mail is an e-mail account you log into using E-mail programs such as Eudora or Outlook Express, using a username and password issued by your provider. It's used to relay any e-mail message sent/forwarded to that account from any sender.
Email Alias allows you to have multiple e-mail addresses that relay received messages to just one POP e-mail account.
Email Forward allows you to have e-mail forwarded from a specific address or POP account to another POP account so you may have all e-mail sent to webmaster@yourdomain.com sent to your POP account provided by your ISP. Or viceversa.
FTP - File Transfer Protocol is a protocol used for certain programs that allow you connect to a web server using your computer so you can upload and download your web pages, image files, etc., in order to let web browsers reach your web site in the Internet.
ASCII - used in FTP and the WWW. This is a type of file that defines a text file. HTML files should be ASCII files.
BINARY - used in FTP and the WWW. This is a type of file that defines files unreadable as text. Graphic images, QuickTime files, Flash files, etc., should be BINARY files.
HTML - Hyper-Text Markup Language the name of the standard coding used to create web pages, most web pages are written/coded in HTML.
Domain Name is the convention used to look for and reach a web site (i.e. www.yoursite.com) through the Internet. Domain names must be registered with a Registrar which assigns your choice of name to you or your organization. Registrations can be done at HostingBiz.
Propagation defines the period after a domain name is registered or transferred to a new hosting provider and the point when the domain name is updated among all the nameservers found on the Internet. This period usually lasts 48-72 hours and domain names are not fully reached from all around the world until this period is over.
Apache - A public-domain Web server software. The first version of Apache, based on the NCSA httpd Web server, was developed in 1995. Because it was developed from existing NCSA code plus various patches, it was called a patchy server - hence the name Apache Server.
As a result of its sophisticated features, excellent performance, and free availability, Apache has became the world's most popular Web server. By some estimates, it is used to host more than 50% of all Web sites in the world. Core development of the Apache Web server is performed by a group of about 20 volunteer programmers, called the Apache Group. The original version of Apache was written for UNIX, but there are now versions that run under Apple's Mac OS X and other platforms.
CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface, a specification for transferring information between a World Wide Web server and a CGI program. A CGI program is any program designed to accept and return data that conforms to the CGI specification. CGI programs are the most common way for Web servers to interact dynamically with users. Forms found in html pages may use a CGI program to process the form's data once it's submitted. CGI is a server-side solution because the processing occurs on the remote web server.
SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, a protocol for sending e-mail messages between servers. Most e-mail systems that send mail over the Internet use SMTP to send messages from one server to another; the messages can then be retrieved with an e-mail client using either POP or IMAP. In addition, SMTP is generally used to send messages from a mail client to a mail server. This is why you need to specify both the POP or IMAP server and the SMTP server when you configure your e-mail application.
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