Some of the terminology you will see on this web site and basics of the internet you should know.

ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) -- This is the de facto world-wide standard for the code numbers used by computers to represent all the upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, punctuation, etc. There are 128 standard ASCII codes each of which can be represented by a 7 digit binary number: 0000000 through 1111111, plus parity.

ASP
ASP - Active Server Pages (ASP). ASP files, which provide Web developers with an easier, faster, and more powerful way to build Web applications, are regular HTML pages with embedded scripts. These scripts can be written in any language and processed by the server when the file's URL is requested.

Bandwidth
The difference between the highest and lowest frequencies available for network signals. The term is also used to describe the rated throughput capacity of a given network medium or protocol. In short, bandwidth is a loose term used to describe the throughput capacity (measured in Kilobits or Megabits per second) of a specific circuit.

Baud
Unit of signaling speed equal to the number of discrete signal elements transmitted per second. Baud is synonymous with bits per second (bps). In common usage the baud rate of a modem is how many bits it can send or receive per second. Technically, baud is the number of times per second that the carrier signal shifts value - for example a 1200 bit-per-second modem actually runs at 300 baud, but it moves 4 bits per baud (4 x 300 = 1200 bits per second).

Bit
A single digit number in base-2, in other words, either a 1 or a zero. The smallest unit of computerized data. Bandwidth is usually measured in bits-per-second.

BPS
(Bits-Per-Second) -- A measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another. A 28.8 modem can move 28,800 bits per second.

Browser
Client software that is used to look at various kinds of Internet resources. Examples include Microsoft's Internet Explorer and Netscape's Navigator.

Byte
A set of Bits that represent a single character. Usually there are 8 Bits in a Byte, sometimes more, depending on how the measurement is being made.

Catch-all Email Account
An email account in which an email of the form, anything@yourdomain.com, will go to you. For example, Support@you.com, Webmaster@you.com, and anything-else@you.com, will all be sent to the account (some hosts allow you to have these sent to different accounts) set up for you.

CGI
(Common Gateway Interface) -- A set of rules that describe how a Web Server communicates with another piece of software on the same machine, and how the other piece of software (the `CGI program`) talks to the web server. Any piece of software can be a CGI program if it handles input and output according to the CGI standard. Usually a CGI program is a small program that takes data from a web server and does something with it, like putting the content of a form into an e-mail message, or turning the data into a database query.

CGI-bin
The most common name of a directory on a web server in which CGI programs are stored. The `bin` part of `cgi-bin` is a shorthand version of `binary`, because once upon a time, most programs were referred to as `binaries`. In real life, most programs found in cgi-bin directories are text files -- scripts that are executed by binaries located elsewhere on the server. While most programs using CGI are stored in this directory, it is not a requirement for using CGI.

Client
A software program that is used to contact and obtain data from a server software program on another computer, often across a great distance. Each client program is designed to work with one or more specific kinds of server programs, and each server requires a specific kind of client. A web browser and an FTP program are specific kinds of clients.

Cold Fusion
A scripting language for advanced web development and database interfacing. Cold Fusion supports Microsoft Access, dBase, FoxPro, and Paradox databases.

Cookie
The most common meaning of `Cookie` on the Internet refers to a piece of information sent by a Web Server to a Web Browser that the Browser software is expected to save and to send back to the Server whenever the browser makes additional requests from the Server. Depending on the type of Cookie used, and the Browser's settings, the Browser may accept or not accept the Cookie, and may save the Cookie for either a short time or a long time. Cookies might contain information such as login or registration information, online `shopping cart` information, user preferences, etc. When a Server receives a request from a Browser that includes a Cookie, the Server is able to use the information stored in the Cookie. For example, the Server might customize what is sent back to the user, or keep a log of particular user's requests.

Data Transfer / Hits
You have unlimited data transfer (or hits) on your virtual server. Any outward-bound traffic from your web site is considered data transfer. For example, each time a html file, image, or other element on your web page is loaded, data transfer is generated.

Disk Space
Disk space refers to the amount of server disk storage your account is allocated. This space is used to store your html files, graphics, audio clips, POP mail messages, and all other files that make up your Web site.

DNS: Domain Naming System
The DNS is a distributed, replicated that allows name servers to map easily remembered domain names to an IP number.

E-Commerce
Electronic Commerce. Refers to the general exchange of goods and services via the Internet.

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

E-Mail Auto Responders
Auto responders may be used to send automated responses to incoming e-mail sent to a specific address. An auto responder could be used to send a standard messages.

Email Forwarding
Having email automatically sent (forwarded) from one (or more) email address, to another (possibly more than one) email address that you specify. If a person has `unlimited email forwarding`, then an email of the form, anything@you.com will be sent to forwarding address. For example, Support@you.com, Webmaster@you.com, and Anything-else@you.com, will all be sent to the account (some hosts allow you to have these sent to different accounts) specified to be sent to.

FrontPage
Microsoft® FrontPage is a site creation and management software tool. One of the most popular website creation software packages the software, both FrontPage® 98 and FrontPage ®2000 is widely supported by the hosting community.

FTP
(File Transfer Protocol) -- A very common method of moving files between two Internet sites. FTP is a special way to login to another Internet site for the purposes of retrieving and/or sending files.

Gigabyte
1024 Megabytes

Hit
As used in reference to the World Wide Web, `hit` means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web server; thus in order for a web browser to display a page that contains 3 graphics, 4 `hits` would occur at the server: 1 for the HTML page, and one for each of the 3 graphics.

Home Page
The first web page that is displayed after starting a web browser such as Netscape Navigator or Microsoft Internet Explorer. (2) The intended beginning page of a website on the Internet.

Home Page
Several meanings. Originally, the web page that your browser is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning refers to the main web page for a business, organization, person or simply the main page out of a collection of web pages.

HTML
(Hypertext Markup Language) -- The coding language used to create Hypertext documents for use on the World Wide Web.

HTTP
(Hypertext Transport Protocol) -- The protocol for moving hypertext files across the Internet. Requires a HTTP client program on one end, and an HTTP server program on the other end. HTTP is the most important protocol used in the World Wide Web (WWW).

IP Number
(Internet Protocol Number) -- Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique number consisting of 4 parts separated by dots. 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.

Internet
Internet can be called "Network of Networks" Internet is a huge network of computer, routers, servers. All having own I.P. (Internet Protocol) address.

Intranet
A private network inside a company or organization that uses the same kinds of software that you would find on the public Internet, but that is only for internal use.

Website
A collection of interlinked web pages on a particular subject, usually under a single Domain Name, which includes an intended beginning file called a `home page`. From the home page, you can get to all the other pages on the web site.

Host
A computer on a network which provides disk storage or services to other computers on the network.

Hosting
Every website, email, file, or online service is stored (called `hosted`) on a computer (called a server) which is connected to the Internet.

Promotion
Promotion means publicity of your Website on the internet. This is done by registering the site with popular search engine, taking banner/panel, using announce web sites. The idea behind promotion is to bring the targeted audience to your website.