Glossary: Technical Jargon
- Apache
- An effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT (httpd.apache.org).
See also: LAMP
- Cascading Style Sheets
- A simple mechanism for adding style (e.g. fonts, colors, spacing) to Web documents (www.w3.org/Style/CSS/).
See also: CSS
- content management system
- A system used to organise and facilitate collaborative content creation.
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets
See also: Cascading Style Sheets
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language
- A family of current and future document types and modules that reproduce, subset, and extend HTML, reformulated in XML (www.w3.org/MarkUp).
See also: XHTML
- Extensible Markup Language
- Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML. Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere (www.w3.org/XML).
See also: XML
- Extensible Stylesheet Language
- XSL is a family of recommendations for defining XML document transformation and presentation (www.w3.org/Style/XSL).
See also: XSL
- JavaScript
- An object oriented web scripting language which has become an international standard allowing web developers the ability to write Dynamic HTML that works on multiple browsers.
- LAMP
- A set of free software programs commonly used together to run dynamic Web sites
See also: Apache, My Structured Query Langauge, MySQL, PHP, PHP: HyperText Preprocessor, Python
- meta tag
- A special HTML tag that provides information about a Web page.
See also: XHTML
- My Structured Query Langauge
- The world's most popular open source database (www.mysql.com).
See also: LAMP, MySQL
- MySQL
- (My) Structured Query Language
See also: LAMP, My Structured Query Langauge
- open source
- Software whose source code freely available.
- PHP
- HyperText Preprocessor
See also: LAMP, PHP: HyperText Preprocessor
- PHP: HyperText Preprocessor
- A widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML (www.php.net).
See also: LAMP, PHP
- Python
- An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language (www.python.org)
See also: LAMP
- W3C
- World Wide Web Consortium
- web browser
- A software application used to locate and display Web pages.
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get
- XHTML
- Extensible HyperText Markup Language
See also: Extensible HyperText Markup Language, meta tag
- XML
- Extensible Markup Language
See also: Extensible Markup Language
- XSL
- Extensible Stylesheet Language
See also: Extensible Stylesheet Language
