development and design
development and design
AS2: ActionScript 2.0 – Flash scripting language version 2.0.
AS3: ActionScript 3.0 – Flash scripting language version 3.0.
AJAX: Asynchronous HTML and XML – a combination of technologies that allows JavaScript to send/receive request from a server.
Client: Refers to the end-user’s computer or person viewing a web page
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets – standard for applying styles to HTML documents.
DTD: Document Type Definition.
Flash: Adobe Flash – a multimedia platform used to create animations, web page components, applications, and integrate video and audio into web pages.
HTML: Hypertext Markup Language – the language used in web documents.
JS: JavaScript – scripting language used for web documents.
Layout: The design or look of a web page viewed by the client.
Mark Up: The framework which controls or styles the Layout of a web page.
META: Metadata – referred to as data about data, used to describe web pages to search engine crawlers thus improving SEO.
OS: Operating System – examples: Windows, Mac OS.
PHP: PHP Hypertext Processor – server side scripting language.
QA: Quality Assurance.
SEO: Search Engine Optimization – techniques in HTML which allow the categorization and ranking of web pages by search engines such as Google or Yahoo!.
SQL: Server Query Language – database information, commonly utilized to store and serve site content.
UI: User Interface – an application deployed in a web page which requires client interaction.
W3C/W3: World Wide Web Consortium – international organization that develops and maintains the standards for HTML, CSS, and other key web technologies.
XHTML: Extensible Hypertext Markup Language – a new version of HTML which conforms to the XML standard set forth by the W3C.
XML: Extensible Markup Language – a generic language that allows the creation of standardized HTML-like languages using DTD to specify tags and attributes.
