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Blog is short for Weblog and is a Web page that has short, frequent updates made to it. Similar to a Web journal or "what's new" page. Check out Joules’ Blog

Domain Name is unique and is used to identify a particular website. Every web site is located by its unique IP address.

Ecommerce is the sale of goods and services on the web or through other online mechanisms.

E-mail addresses will be provided with your website. Part of the address will be your domain, for example: yourname@yourbusiness.co.uk

Favicon  is a small graphic that is associated with a page or Web site. The favicon allows the Web developer to customize the site in the Web browser.

Forum An online community where visitors may read and post topics of common interest.

Home Page is the first page, (also called opening page) of a website.

Hosting is a service provided by a hosting company. That’s a place where your website content is stored and connected to the Internet. This allows website users to view the content of your website.

HTML stands for Hyper Text Markup Language, this is the language used to create web pages on the World Wide Web (WWW).

Hyperlink with a click of a mouse a hyperlink will take you to a linked object, it could be on the website you are viewing or another website.

Internet is the largest global network connecting millions of computers.

IP Address (Internet Protocol) is a unique number which identifies a computer and its location on the Internet.

Keyword a word used when performing a search 

Search Engine performs searching for specified terms or phrases and returns a list of websites.

Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) helps to increase the number of visitors to your website and improve your ranking with search engines. One way to do this is to make sure appropriate keywords and phrases are found on your website (in the text, and also how the site is set up).

Spam refers to the practice on blindly sending commercial messages or advertisements to email users.

Thumbnail is a small version of a bigger image on a web page.

URL stands for Uniform Resource Locator, is a string of characters used to represent and identify a page of information on the World Wide Web that is used by a web browser.

Web Browser is an application programme that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Netscape, Opera are a few you may recognise

Web page is one of the pages on a web site.

Web Site, a site presence on the World Wide Web. Each website contains a home page (opening page). Some sites have only the one page others have no limit.

World Wide Web (WWW) is a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted using HTML (see above) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio and video files.

WYSWYG What You See Is What You Get

WIKI A wiki is a Web site that is managed by its readers. Readers are invited to login and edit any page of a wiki to make the whole more inclusive and correct. Wikis are a way to take the anarchy that defines the Internet and give it form and substance