Web development glossary:

A

Acrobat • Affiliate Programs • Aliasing • Alignment • ALT-attribute • Animated GIF • Animation • Animation Designer • Anti-Aliasing • Applet • ASP - Active Server Pages • ASP - Application Service Provider • Audio Designer • Audio Streaming • Auto Responder

B

Backbone • Bandwidth • Banner Ads • Bevel • bit • Bitmap Image (bmp) • Bookmark • bps - Bits-Per-Second • Broadband • Browser

C

Cache • CGI - Common Gateway Interface • CGI Scripts • Click through rate • Client Side Programming • CMYK • Co-location • Color Cast • Compression • Concept Creation • Cookie • CPC - Cost Per Click • CPM - Cost per 1000 impressions • CSS - Cascading Style Sheet

D

Database • Dedicated Line • DHTML • Directory • Dithered/Dithering • DNS - Domain Name System • Domain Name • Domain Name Registration • Doorway Page • DPI • Drop Shadow • Drop-Down Menu • DSL - Digital Subscriber Line

E

E-commerce (or Ecommerce) • E-Zine (or Ezine) • Emboss • Encryption • Error 404 • Export • Extranet

F

Feathering • Findability • Fire Wall • Flash • Font • Forms • Frame • Frames • FTP - File Transfer Protocol

G

Gateway Page • GIF (or .gif) - Graphics Interchange Format • Glow • Gradient • Graphic Backgrounds • Grayscale • Guest Book

H

Hexadecimal • Hits • Home Page • Host • Hosting (or Web Hosting) • HTML - Hypertext Markup Language • HTTP (or http) - HyperText Transfer Protocol • HTTPS • Hue • Hyperlink • Hypertext

I

Image Map • Information Page • Interactive Web Design • Interlace • Internet • Intranet • IP Address • ISP - Internet Service Provider

J

Java • JavaScript • JPG (or JPEG or .jpg) - Joint Photographic Experts

K

KB - kilobyte • Kerning • Keyword (or Key Phrase) • Kilobyte

L

LAN - Local Area Network • Leading • Link (or Hyperlink) • Link popularity • List • Lossless Compression • Lossy Compression • LPI

M

MB - megabyte • Merchant account • META Tags • Modem • Moderated Discussion List/Newsgroup • Mouseover • MP3 • Multimedia • MySQL

N

Netiquette • Newbie

O

ODP - Open Directory Project • Online marketing • Open Source • Overture

P

PDF • Perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language • PHP • Pixel • Plug-In • PNG (or .png) - Portable Network Graphics • Post • PPC - Pay Per Click • PPI

Q

Query • Quick Time Video

R

RAM - Random-Access Memory • RealAudio • RealPlayer • RGB • Rich Media • robots.txt • Royalty-Free Photos or Images • Rules

S

Sans Serif • Saturation • Screen Font • Scripting • Search Engine • Secure Web Site • SEO - Search Engine Optimization • Serif • Server • Shopping Cart • Spam • Spamming • Spiders and Robots (or "bots") • SQL - Structured Query Language • SSL - Secure Socket Layer

T

Template • terabyte • Thread • Thumbnail • Traffic Node • Typeface

U

URL - Uniform Resource Locator • Usability

V

Vector Graphic • Video

W

WAP - Wireless Application Protocol • Web Designer • Web Ring • Web Site • Website Monitoring • Whois • WYSIWYG

X

XHTML • XML

Y

Yahoo

Z

ZIP (or .zip)