Glossary of terms
- HTTP
- HTML
- Hyper Text Markup Language descendant from SGML
- CSS
- Cascading Style Sheets, formatting for web pages
- JavaScript
- Also called ECMAScript, Client-Side language used in web pages
- Client-Side
- Everything that happens in the browser
- Server-Side
- Everything that happens on the server (includes web-server, application-server, database-server, etc.)
- Version Control
- Software that automatically saves all versions as something is modified
- FTP
- rsync
- WebDav
- SSH
- web-server
- Content Management System (CMS)
- AJAX
- Tables
- An HTML technology intended for tabular data but commonly also used for layout, use CSS instead.
- Frames
- An HTML technology that splits pages, use CSS instead.
- WYSIWYG
- What You See Is What You Get, the editor looks like the final result.
- DOM
Document Object Model, the way the page looks to JavaScript when it is loaded in the browser.
- VNC