Translating Ecommerce Web Hosting Jargon
A Home Business Article Contributed by Sharon Hill
What Does This Mean? Translating Ecommerce Web Hosting Jargon
If you're a new business owner, with a new business site, you'll need to understand a little bit about ecommerce web terminology to communicate with your host. Here are some of the key terms and what they mean:
Ecommerce Web Hosting Terminology
Java - A very popular, highly sophisticated ecommerce web hosting language that was developed by Sun MicroSystems. It's used to write programs and small applications called Applets which can be used in a web site for powerful animation and magical effects as well as reflections.
JPEG - Joint Photographic Experts Group. One of the most popular image file formats for photographic electronic delivery. 24 bit, it can display literally millions of different colors and shades.
Netscape Navigator - Probably the second most popular Internet Browser used by ecommerce web hosts.
Pixel - Short for picture element. It is the smallest unit of measurement referred to by ecommerce web hosts when talking about graphic Internet display. Pictures are made up of lines of different colored pixels. (You'll also hear pixel size quoted when discussing digital photography.) Your screen resolution is determined by the number of pixels displayed - the more pixels displayed in a designated page space the better the resolution (quality of the picture.)
SE - Short for search engine. This is a web site that builds up a huge list of web sites, collating them by subject and keyword, as a source of information for computer researchers and other surfers. Yahoo, the most famous, and the oldest (created in 1994) has indexed over 1 million sites. Google, Ask (can also be found at Ask Jeeves), mamma.com, AOL, Lycos, and AltaVista, are other powerful and popular search engines.
An Essential Ecommerce Web Hosting Element
Server - This is the "boss" computer, owned by your ecommerce web host; the server is permanently connected to the Internet. You upload your web pages to the server as part of the display and delivery process.
Spam - junk e-mail. It is sent out in bulk, to thousands of e-mail addresses at one time. The owners of these have not asked for the e-mail; it usually is used as an advertisement or enticement to sell a product or service.
Tag - ecommerce web hosts and page designers use these codes in HTML to dictate the look of the web pages. They are commands that tell the server how the page should look. is the tag for italics, indicates bold, for example.
T-1 - a high speed phone line that is much improved from the standard telephone lines we use everyday in home and office communication. Its bandwidth (communication and delivery speed) is 1, 544, 000 bits per second. The most advanced communication line now in existence is a T-3, which transmits at 44, 736, 000 bits per second.
UNIX - a complicated operating system primarily used by servers.
URL - Stands for Uniform Resource Locator. This is just another name for web address. It's the address you type in the address bar to get to a website. www.yahoo.com is a URL
WYSIWYG - Stands for What You See is What You Get. This refers to HTML editors such as the very popular DreamWeaver that allow you to look at what you are creating (camera-ready so to speak) as you go along.
