.asp
File extension for an active server page (a web page dynamically created with information from a database).

Bandwidth
How much stuff you can send through a connection. Usually measured in bits-per-second. A full page of English text is about 16,000 bits. A fast modem can move about 57,000 bits in one second. Full-motion full-screen video would require roughly 10,000,000 bits-per-second, depending on compression.

Browser
A program (such as Microsoft Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator) used to view web pages.

.cfm
A file extension for a ColdFusion web page (a web page dynamically created with information from a database).

CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language) the programming language used to build dynamic web pages that automatically draw their content from a database.

CMS
An abbreviation for Content Management Solution or Content Management System.

Domain Name
A unique name that identifies a web site.

Email (Electronic Mail)
Messages, usually text, sent from one person to another via computer. E-mail can also be sent automatically to a large number of addresses.

FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
FAQs are documents that list and answer the most common questions on a particular subject. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as Pet Grooming and Cryptography.

File Extension
the part of a file name that indicates the type of file.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
A protocol which allows to be transferred between a PC connected to the Internet and a http server.

.gif
A file extension for an image file using the GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) format. A common format for image files, especially suitable for images containing large areas of the same color. GIF format files of simple images are often smaller than the same file would be if stored in JPEG format, but GIF format does not store photographic images as well as JPEG.

Hit
Every file a browser opens in order to display a web page counts as a hit and, as each web page usually contains a number of images (each is an image file) as well as the text, the number of hits generated by one user viewing a single web page can vary widely.

Home Page
The first page of a web site, the one you see when you enter into the address bar of your browser only the domain name of a web site (like http://www.kudosweb.com/)

HTML (HyperText Markup Language)
The simple programming language used to build web pages

HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol)
The protocol which allows HTML pages (web pages) to be transferred between an web server and a browser

.ie
the Irish national domain

ISP (Internet Service Provider)
A company (like Eircom Net or AOL) that can provide you with access to the Internet and an email address.

IP Address (Internet Protocol)
A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots, e.g. 137.82.181.2. Every machine that is on the Internet has a unique IP number - if a machine does not have an IP number, it is not really on the Internet.

JavaScript
JavaScript is a programming language that is mostly used in web pages, usually to add features that make the web page more interactive. When JavaScript is included in an HTML file it relies upon the browser to interpret the JavaScript.

.jpg or .jpeg
A file extension for an image file using the JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group) format which is used for photographic images

Password
A code used to gain access (login) to a locked system. Good passwords contain letters and non-letters and are not simple combinations such as virtue7. A good password might be: 5%df(29) But don't use that one!

PWS
An abbreviation for Personal Web Server.

Search Engine
A web site that you can use to try to find web pages that include certain words
.htm or .html file extension for an HTML file (a web page).

Server
A computer, or a software package, that provides a specific kind of service to client software running on other computers. The term can refer to a particular piece of software, such as a WWW server, or to the machine on which the software is running, e.g. "Our mail server is down today, that's why e-mail isn't getting out."
A single server machine can (and often does) have several different server software packages running on it, thus providing many different servers to clients on the network.

SQL (Structured Query Language)
A specialised language for sending queries to databases. Most industrial-strength and many smaller database applications can be addressed using SQL. Each specific application will have its own slightly different version of SQL implementing features unique to that application, but all SQL-capable databases support a common subset of SQL.
A example of an SQl statement is:

SELECT name,email
FROM table_customers
WHERE country='Ireland';

SSL (Secure Socket Layer)
A protocol designed by Netscape Communications to enable encrypted, authenticated communications across the Internet.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator)
What you type into your browser in order to display a web page - the URL of this page is http://www.dawnit.net/glossary.htm.

Web
Short for 'World Wide Web'.

Web page
A document designed for viewing in a web browser. Typically written in HTML.

WWW (World Wide Web)
The network of computers (and computer networks) used to host web sites, domain names, and various other Internet resources.