Internet Glossary - C
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CSS
Abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets. CSS allow a web site designer
to separate form from function. HTML tells a page what to do, but CSS
tells a web page how to look. Currently, not all browsers express CSS
formatting in the same manner.
CGI
Abbreviation of Common Gateway Interface. It is used to transfer information
between a web server and a CGI program. A CGI program is any program designed
to accept and return data. The program could be written in any programming
language, including C, Perl, Java, or Visual Basic. CGI programs are the
most common way for web servers to interact dynamically with users. Many
HTML pages that contain forms, for example, use a CGI program to process
the form's data once it's submitted.
NumaTek web hosting services provide
a number of already-written CGI programs that can be incorporated into
your web site just by copying a line of HTML.
Cloaking
Cloaking is a method of redirection which hides the actual URL of your
site from the viewer's address bar via frames. It is primarily used to
show an optimized page to the search engines and a different page to humans.
Most search engines will penalize a site if they discover that it is using
cloaking.
Comment Tag
An HTML tag used to hide content from browsers. Used for designer's notes.
Most search engines ignore the comment tags.
Connection Speed
The connection speed is the speed at which data is transferred during
the session. The connection speed can be influenced by such factors as
the speed of your modem, the quality of the telephone line from your house
to the exchange, the quality of your exchange and the maximum speed of
your ISP.
Cookie
A small data file that some websites write to your hard drive when you
visit them. A cookie file can contain information such as your user ID
that the site uses to track the pages you've visited. The next time you
visit the website, the web program reads the cookie file to ascertain,
for example, what parts of the website you are interested in. The only
personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.
A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created
by other sites.
Counter
A program that keeps track of the number of visitors that visit a web
page. The counter is often implemented as a CGI application. Often, such
programs also keep track of other related information, such as IP addresses,
times of the day for each visit, browser type, etc.
