Vocabulary

ASP - Active Server Page. Refers to a type of dynamice webpage format that allows you to connect to Microsoft based database programs such as Access or SQL Server. You can also program scripts to send email for web-based forms.

Cacscading Style Sheets (CSS) - A heirarchical sytem of adding style to a webpage. The closer you are to a specific tag within the HTML, the more specific the style. These pages are then linked to the main document.

Forum - A web-based chat room so to speak. Users can be managed and can contribute to a discussion. On your website, you can control who can join, who can see the discussion, and contact all members.

HTML - HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language. It was NOT invented by Al Gore. It's been around much longer than that. To anyone learning about webdesign, I provide this advice: HTML was designed to be a universal languaget that could communicate information when phone lines were down. That being said (in it's entirety), we are currently usig this 50+year old computer language to do fancy layouts. Be patient and look for alternative ways to get HTML to do what you want.

Intranet - A website that is NOT visible to everyone. It specializes in information for a particular group of people, sometimes only accessible from specific computers, say at work.

PHP - A dynamic webpage format that allows for flexible information. This information could be the current date/time or it could be information held in a MySQL database. A webserver is either going to be Microsoft based and use ASP (Active Server Pages) or not Microsoft and host PHP pages.

RSS Feeds - Time to bring the world wide web to the world. RSS Feeds allow people with readers or online blogs to get updates about your webpage. Many downloadable readers, such as Sharpreader, work much like an email program except that websites come to you instead of email. Many news station websites will have this symbol xml logo that will allow you to subscribe to their feed. Check it out and then add XML to your website.

Tags - HTML tags refers to the formating system of HTML. When you want to make text bold, you start with the tag <b>then all text is bold until you turn it off with</b>. To see a list of HTML Tags, go here.