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Web Terminology

What is web-hosting?

• Offers you space to place your files, data, documents, for your customers to access via their web browser.
• Enables you to send and receive e-mail and files over the web.
• Provides you with the means to have an address, so anyone with access to the web can view your web site and communicate with you by e-mail.
• Transfer and Disk Space - Measured in Megabytes or Gigabytes - these amounts will limit how many files, documents or e-mail you can have on your site, or send via your web-site/e-mail account(s).
• The more people that access your site, and the more you send/receive e-mail or store files on your site, the more transfer and Disk Space you use and subsequently the higher the price of your hosting package. 404 Error: This error occurs when you go to a page on a web site with a missing, damaged or broken url.

Electronic Publishing

Some of the key benefits of Electronic publishing are:

• Low costs of production.
• Quicker production time.
• Easier to distribute.
• The software for creating them is relatively cheap or in the case of open office completely free of charge.
• You can copy as many as you need without additional costs.
• The cost of production remains the same.
• You can be your own publisher and distributor.

Web Server: A computer (connected to the internet) + a software package (eg. Apache/IIS). Software accepts requests from the users via HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) and delivers web pages to the user. Popular server platforms are linux, unix and Microsoft Windows. Linux comes in a variety of distributions ie. Fedora, mandrake this distribution is one of the most user friendly version of Linux), Slackware and Suse.

URL - Universal Resource Locators

FTP Server : FTP -File Transfer Protocol - Software enabling you to transfer files between your computer and web-server eg. To upload/delete or change files. You will need a username and password.

FTP Client : Software packages allowing you to view, upload or delete files on your web server as if it were your own computer.

Mail Sever : Consists of two parts, SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol and POP - Post Office Protocol. POP is where your e-mail is received, in your mailbox and SMTP is used to send mail between mail servers.

E-Mail Clients : Clients include Microsoft Outlook, Eudora. Yahoo and Hotmail are web-based clients. These clients allow you to store and write e-mail off-line, before sending. These files will be stored on your own hard-drive, instead of on-line eg. Hotmail.

Database : Web Based Software enabling customers to search product catalogues by using search terms.

Database Server : Used to gather data from your customers eg. Orders, feedback forms, etc.

Database Administration Client : Most commonly used are MSQL (Microsoft SQL) Server on Windows, on Unix/linux platforms most common are MySQL. They both come with administration clients enabling you to view and edit your database.

Control Panel : Enables you to change any part of your web-site setup, control e-mail accounts, contact your hosting company, view your bandwidth and even allow you to pay your hosting fees all via your browser.

WYSIWYG - What You See Is What You Get.

SEO - Search Engine Optimisation : A process in whereby changes are made to a web site to make it more popular. Click here to read more and find out how we can help.

E-Books - Why should you create them?

You should try to create useful e-books that can be downloaded from your site free of charge - this is because offering something for nothing, will spread the name of your site and improve your rankings. E-Books may take the form of magazines, publicity material, price lists, etc. A good format for these is adobe PDF as it is a recognised standard.

Above all - your book should be interesting to read and be relevant to your business.

Some of the major book publishers are now distributing theses e-books instead of using traditional paper.

Advantages of using Adobe PDF format for your E-Book

• Portable.
• Can be viewed on any platform (operating system) with a viewer.
  

What is a Blog?

• Definition of a Blog - A web-site that acts as an on-going project.
• A personal diary, could be a news outlet, a space to collaborate ideas for a project, express your own thoughts, or a space for memos.
• Can be anything - no set rules
• New material always appears at the top and the older towards the bottom, your readers may comment on, and read articles, people can send e-mail to the writer or Post comments etc.
• Blogging has been around for roughly 5 years and has re-shaped the web.
• Boggling enables people to have a voice on the web.
• Blogger Comments - let your readers send feedback on your Blog. You have control to stop your audiences posting any comments you don’t like.
• Group Blogs - cool for collaboration between small teams or family use. You can share ideas or post comments etc.
• Blogger Profiles - lets you find Blogs and other people sharing the same interests - your profile allows you to be found, you can block your profile if need be.
• Easy to maintain and update.

What is Anti Virus Software?

A software application installed on your computer specifically designed to detect viruses and prevent them from infecting your machine. A.N.A Web Hosting recommend Grisoft AVG Internet Security Suite to keep you safe whist surfing the net.