Accessibility
Accessibility is a general term used to describe facilities or amenities to assist people with disabilities. In terms of the World Wide Web, this means making the content of a website accessible to people with a disability, so that such people enjoy the same level of access as those without disabilities. It also means making a website available to alternative devices, such as Personal Data Assistants, cellular phones, and web-enabled television applications.

Back end
The systems running a database or any system that holds application data.

Bandwidth
The term bandwidth is also used, informally, to mean the amount of data that can be transferred through a connection in a given time period.

Browser
The user interface to the Internet or Internet protocol-based system. Runs on user's local computer.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
A formatting template that separates web page's typography from layout and structure.

Commerce
Commerce is the exchange of something of value between two entities. That "something" may be goods, services, information, money, or anything else the two entities consider to have value. In terms of the World Wide Web, commerce is achieved electronically, in a process called e-commerce.

Connectivity
A computer buzzword that refers to a program or device's ability to link with other programs and devices. For example, a program that can import data from a wide variety of other programs and can export data in many different formats is said to have good connectivity. On the other hand, computers that have difficulty linking into a network have poor connectivity.

Content
"Content" refers to the text, images, product information, etc., that a website contains. It also refers to the elements of HTML code that describe those items. In modern websites, content is kept completely separate from the visual layout so that it can be accessed by a variety of devices using various screen sizes and resolutions, and even "screen readers" that speak out a page for the visually-impaired.

Database
A database is an information set organized for flexible searching and utilization. From a website point of view, it can function as the engine for a dynamic site.

Document Object Model
The Document Object Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The document can be further processed and the results of that processing can be incorporated back into the presented page.

Domain Name Registrar
A Domain Name Registrar is an independent organization which is responsible for domain name registrations and routing of Internet domain names.

Domain Name Suffix
Also called a top level domain, the suffix is the part of the domain name that follows the host name. Examples include .com, .net, .org, .us, and other descriptive of country-specific codes.

Domain Name System
The Domain Name System, (DNS), is a core feature of the Internet. It is a distributed database that handles the mapping between host names (domain names), which are more convenient for humans, and the numerical Internet addresses.

eBusiness
The use of the Internet to conduct business.

eCommerce
The sales part of the eBusiness process.

EDI
Electronic Data Interchange - exchanging information forms electronically, such as invoices and orders.

Enterprise Solutions
ESs are applications that integrate and streamline mission-critical internal processes within the four walls of an organization, and across remote locations of geographically dispersed organizations — such as broadcast groups, rep firms, and large advertising agencies. ESs allow information to flow across independent system chains, such as those used by broadcasters to budget, coordinate & support sales teams, propose business, price, allocate & schedule inventory, and book financial information. Locally, these systems greatly reduce the cycle time, errors, and burnout associated with repetitive data entry/re-entry, leading to significant cost reductions and productivity gains. At the global level, ESs allow managers of multi-site operations to plan, gauge performance, prioritize resources and deploy creative multi-market/multi-media solutions in a real time, proactive manner. The deployment of ESs are greatly accelerated by extensible open protocols such as XML, which can be cost-effectively deployed in a web-based environment.

Firewall
Security software that prevents unauthorized access to a company's networks by outside users.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol)
The standard protocol for transferring files from computer to computer over the Internet.

Front end
The user's local system running a browser and/or web server providing pages, data, and applications to users.

Gateway
A middle man between two points.  TVB ePort serves as the gateway between local broadcast television advertising buyers and sellers.

GIF (Graphic Interchange Format)
8-bit color palette graphics file format.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
Computer language to create web documents, provides instructions that tell the browser how to display pages.

Hyperlink
A hyperlink, or simply a link, is a reference in a hypertext document to another document or other resource. It is similar to a citation in literature. Combined with a data network and suitable access protocol, it can be used to fetch the resource referenced. This can then be saved, viewed, or displayed as part of the referencing document.

Hypertext
In computing, a hypertext system is one for displaying information that contains references (called hyperlinks) to other information on the system, and for easily publishing, updating and searching for the information.

Internet
The Internet is the publicly available world-wide, interconnected system of computers (plus the information and services they provide and their users) that uses the TCP/IP suite of protocols.

Intranet
An intranet is an access restricted network used internally in an organization.

J2EE (JAVA 2 Enterprise Edition)
Widely recognized as the most versatile and extensible environment for developing and deploying enterprise applications, the J2EE platform consists of a set of services, application programming interfaces (APIs), and protocols that provide the functionality for developing Web-based applications which are distributed across multiple computing tiers.

JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
24-bit RGB color graphics file format.

Merchant Account
A Merchant Account is an account that you set up with your bank to enable you to accept credit card purchases from your customers. The bank collects the payments on your behalf before disbursing them to you. A merchant account for online use is different in terms and regulations from a standard merchant account due to the risk involved, since you are not physically seeing either the customer or the credit card, which increases the chances of fraud or charge backs.

Object-Oriented System
An object-oriented system is composed of objects. The behavior of the system results from the collaboration of those objects. Collaboration between objects involves them sending messages to each other. Sending a message differs from calling a function in that when a target object receives a message, it itself decides what function to carry out to service that message. The same message may be implemented by many different functions, the one selected depending on the state of the target object.

PHP
PHP (originally "Personal Home Page Tools," but now a recursive acronym for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor") is a widely used open-source programming language used primarily for server-side applications, to develop dynamic web content.

PNG (Portable Network Format)
Graphics File Format 8-Bit palette, 16 Bit Grayscale.

RUP (Rational Unified Process)
The methodology for developing software systems, uses case-driven iterative approach.

SSI (Server Side Includes)
The HTML code that is replaced by data from the server before being displayed in web browser.

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)
A protocol developed by Netscape for transmitting private documents via the Internet. SSL works by using a private key to encrypt data that's transferred over the SSL connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites use the protocol to obtain confidential data information, such as credit card numbers. By convention, Web pages that require an SSL connection start with https.

Shopping Cart
An electronic shopping cart is software which allows customers shopping on a website to place product orders for multiple products from a website. The software automatically calculates and totals orders for customers and indicates the total price including postage and packing.

SQL (Structured Query Language)
Structured Query Language is a declarative programming language for use in quasi-relational databases.

TCP/IP
The Internet protocol suite is the set of protocols that implement the protocol stack on which the Internet runs. It is sometimes called the TCP/IP protocol suite, after two of the many protocols that make up the suite: the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) and the Internet Protocol (IP), which were the first two defined.

Transaction processing
A type of computer processing in which the computer responds immediately to user requests. Each request is considered to be a transaction. Automatic teller machines for banks are an example of transaction processing. The opposite of transaction processing is batch processing, in which a batch of requests is stored and then executed all at one time. Transaction processing requires interaction with a user, whereas batch processing can take place without a user being present.

UML (Unified Modeling Language)
Standard modeling methodology for communicating design of Object Oriented Systems.

Uploading
"Uploading" is another way of describing the transfer of local files (files stored on your computer) to a server connected to the Internet. The process is sometimes referred to as "publishing" or "put", and it usually involves utilizing the File Transfer Protocol (FTP).

URL
A Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, is a standardized address for some resource (such as a document or image) on the Internet.

VML (Vector Markup Language)
The method used to embed vector graphs into XML documents, speeding up transmission of graphics data.

VPN (Virtual Private Network)
A logical connection between members of a distributed private network, including remote users and telecommuters, that allows free and secure communication through an untrusted, public network.

W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is a consortium that produces standards for the World Wide Web.

Web server
A web server is a computer (or specialized software running on a computer) responsible for serving web pages to a client (usually a web browser) when a user requests a page. The browser sends a request to the web server, which responds. After a brief "negotiation" (using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or HTTP), and sometimes some extra processing, the web server sends the page back to the browser for rendering.

Website
A website, or web site, is a collection of web pages, that is, documents accessible via the World Wide Web on the Internet.

World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (the "Web" or "WWW" for short) is a hypertext system that operates over the Internet. To view the information, a software program calls a web browser to retrieve pieces of information (called "documents" or "web pages") from web servers (or "websites") and displays them on a screen.

XML (Extensible Markup Language)
A programming language that allows designers to create their own customized tags (markup) enabling the definition, transmission, validation, and interpretation of data between applications and between organizations. For "structured data" think of such things as spreadsheets, proposal documents, financial transactions, ratings data, log files, etc. Programs that produce such data store it on disk, for which they can use either a binary format or a text format. The latter allows you, if necessary, to look at the data without the program that produced it. XML is a set of rules, guidelines, and conventions — whatever you want to call them — for designing text formats for such data, in a way that produces meta data/files that are easy to generate and read (by a computer), that are unambiguous, and that avoid common pitfalls, such as lack of extensibility, lack of support for internationalization/localization, and platform dependency.

XML processor
A software module used to read XML documents and provide access to their content and structure. It is assumed that an XML processor is doing its work on behalf of another module, called the application.