The Big Fluffy Bunnys guide to Internet and Technology Terms.
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The Big Fluffy Bunnys guide to Internet and Technology Terms.

Many of the terms and terminology of website and internet can be pretty confusing, so with this in mind, we've complied a list of technology terms used within the site.

ASP - Active Server Pages
ASP - Active Server Pages

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's first server-side script engine for dynamically-generated web pages. Active Server Pages can be used to develop Web-based applications, including extending sales and customer service to the Web, and providing access to corporate databases and applications to any browser.

 

All our Information Driven Websites and E-Commerce Websites are based on ASP Technologies.

Added: 02/09/2008 11:32:20

CMS - Content Management System
CMS - Content Management System

A web Content Management System is software for creating and managing HTML content. It is used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of web material (HTML documents and their associated images). A CMS facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many essential web maintenance functions.

 

Our Information Driven Websites are an example of a Content Management System

Added: 02/09/2008 11:38:49

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets

In web development, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a stylesheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can be applied to any kind of XML document.

 

All our websites, be they Small Business Websites, Information Driven Websites or E-Commerce Websites all use CSS for the styles and layouts of web pages.

Added: 02/09/2008 11:43:03

Database
Database

A data base is a structured collection of records or data. A computer database relies upon software to organize the storage of data. The most commonly used databases in web based applications and websites are Microsoft Access and Microsoft SQL Server on Windows based computers and MySQL on Linux based computers.

 

Our Information Driven Websites and E-Commerce Websites use databases to store all the information for the website and products.

Added: 02/09/2008 11:47:17

HTML And XHTML
HTML And XHTML HTML or HyperText Markup Language, is a markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document — by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, and so on — and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects.
Added: 02/09/2008 11:48:43