Here's
a list of website development technical terms used at proshay.com.
Just a little helpful glossary.
Wordtracker
- A web-based service that enables you to research keywords
for optimizing on your site.
Web
site traffic The amount of total visitors and unique
visits to a Web site.
WAN
Wide Area Network - a network with all its computers
geographically far apart - the Internet is the ultimate WAN.
Window
A rectangular box containing an application, a part of an
application, a message, or a folder. This concept is the basis
for the user interface in Windows.
Winsock
Short for Windows Sockets - this is the language your computer
speaks when it's connected to the Internet. Dial-Up Networking
is the winsock support built into Windows. Once you've connected
Windows to the internet, you can use winsock clients (software).
Winsock
Client See Client (software).Workgroup A type of
LAN. The computers that make up a workgroup tend to share
the responsibilities equally, as opposed to a client / server
relationship.
World
Wide Web The portion of the Internet you used to
access this page. WWW for short, it is a subset of the Internet.
Netscape, Mozilla, and Internet Explorer are examples of browsers
used to navigate the World Wide Web.
