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Glossary

The following is a glossary of commonly used internet terms. I have just started compiling this glossary and I’ll be adding more terms as I go along:

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• Anchor Text - It is the visible text in an HTML link which a visitor clicks on to surf the web. For example in the HTML link code
  <a href=”http://ihowsite.com”>i How Site</a>
  the text ‘i How Site‘ is called the Anchor text. Though you can use any text you want for the anchor text, it is wise to use anchor text which is relevant to the page as search engines give quite a bit of importance to this text in their rankings.

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• Blog, Blogging and Weblog - The terms blog and weblog are synonyms though the term blog is most commonly used. Originally, a blog or weblog was mainly a personal website as opposed to a business website. But now-a-days, the blogs have become so popular that distinction between personal and business use of blogs is very blurry; lots of blogs are used for business.

• Browser - Also called User-Agent is a software application that enable a person to visit different websites and web pages on the web. Examples are Firefox, Internet explorer etc.

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• Crawler - Also known as Spider or Robot. It’s a software program usually used by search engines to crawl the web; that is, it follows the the links on the world wide web to visit various websites and web pages, makes copies of them and stores them in the search engine’s database. This database is often referred to as the Index. Every search engine has one or more crawlers to keep their index up to date.

• CSS - It stands for Cascading Style Sheets. It is an extension to HTML that gives web page designers the ability to separate the style (formatting, positioning, colors etc.) from the content. Unfortunately, CSS code tends to be very lengthy and complex. Good news is that if you are using Wordpress, you don’t need to worry about it. But if you want to learn the nitty gritty of it then check out a simple HTML + CSS example (opens in a new window).

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• Domain Name - It’s the unique name a website on the Internet. For example, the domain of this website is iHowSite.com.

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• HTML - It’s short for HyperText Markup Language. It’s the language in which web pages are coded. It has been improved upon with PHP and XHTML

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• mySQL - It’s an open source relational database management system that uses structured query language (SQL) for adding, deleting, modifying and retrieving data from a database.

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• PHP - The HuperText PreProcessor programming language is an improvement over HTML and has proven to be very popular and powerful for coding web based applications. For example the popular Wordpress blogging application is coded almost entirely in PHP.

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• Search Engine - A software application that search it’s index to produce results relevant to a user’s query.

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• User Agent - See Browser

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• Weblog See Blog
• Wordpress - It’s an open source software originally designed for blogging but is so powerful and popular that it is being used by many business websites. It uses mySQL database as the back end.

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