- Accessibility
- In relation to the web, accessibility means that your web site is available to people of all abilities and disabilities. This also means that you are not excluding any of your potential audience, including users of older technology. For more information, see this Web Accessibility Initiative checklist.
- CMS
- Content Management System. Specifically, a web content management system is a way for an organisation to create, edit and publish content on a web site using a simple web browser interface. For more information see Wikipedia.
- Dynamic web site
- A web site that uses a database so that the content can be updated dynamically, either by the user via a web browser interface or automatically. There is a related article on Wikipedia entitle Dynamic web page.
- Functional spec
- Short for "functional specification", a document that details all the technical requirements of a web site, ideally in conjunction with the business process, which acts as the main reference point.
- Information Architecture
- IA, or Information Architecture, is the process of planning out how the web site works from a user's perspective. See this Wikipedia article for more information.
- Joomla!
- Joomla! is one of the most popular and easy-to-use open source Content Management Systems. It is a way to create dynamic web sites, and there are many extensions available which can enhance its functionality.
- Forum
- A forum in a web terminology is software that enables a public discussion of different topics. This can be useful for your business, however there is a time committment to maintaing it. For information see this Wikipedia article.
- FOSS
- FOSS stands for Free Open Source Software, software that is liberally licensed so that it can be used, modified, shared and published by everybody.
- Open format
- A file format that is created according to open standards, so that the specifications are open to all software developers. See this Wikipedia article for more information.
- Proprietary format
- A file format which is not open, so that software developers have to pay a license fee to make software that can use it. See this Wikipedia article for more information.
- SEO
- Stands for Search Engine Optimisation and indicates techniques to increase the web sites ranking on a web search site such as Google.
- Shopping cart
- A shopping cart in web terminology is the software that enables customers to choose and buy goods and services from a web site. It's also known as a shopping basket. For more information see this Wikipedia article.
- WAI
- An acronym for Web Accessibility Iniative, the WAI is the W3C's guidelines for creating accessible web sites. See this Wikipedia article for more information.
- Web standards
- These are a set of open technology standards upon which the web is built and include HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The standards are overseen by the Worldwide Web Consortium (W3C), and web sites that adhere to web standards are easier to update, more accessible and easier to search. For more information, see this Wikipedia article.
- Wireframe
- A web site wireframe is a simplified layout of the page elements, showing the rough position of the functionality and IA on the web page.
- WYSIWYG editor
- WYSIWYG is an acronym for What You See Is What You Get, and a WYSIWYG editor is a web browser based way of editing content that behaves in a similar way to a standard word processor.
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