Glossary ABC

Web Design & Development

A

ASP (Active Server Pages)
A specification for a dynamically created Web page with an .asp extension that contains either Visual Basic or Jscript code.

B

b2b (business-to-business)
Business Websites where only other businesses can access or buy products on the site.

b2c (business-to-consumer)
E-commerce Websites that sell goods directly to consumers.

Beta
The preliminary or testing stage. Commonly used when describing the pre-release phase of new software. The beta version comes after the alpha version.

C

CGI (Common Gateway Interface)
A standard for running programs on a server from a Web page. Gateway programs, or scripts, are executable programs that can be run independently.

Cookies
Cookies are small data files written to a users hard drive when browsing certain Websites. These data files contain information the site can use to track such things as passwords, lists of pages you've visited, and the date when you last looked at a certain page.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheet)
Cascading Style Sheets work like a template, allowing Web developers to define a style for an HTML element and then apply it to as many Web pages as they like. It is usually a single text file (with a .css extension) that contains lines of code, necessary to define such elements as font family, size, weight, colour, etc. CSS code can also be included in an HTML document. (see HTML)

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