Glossary of Terms
Flash Animation - an animated film which is created using Adobe Flash or similar animation software and often distributed in the .swf file format. The term Flash animation not only refers to the file format but to a certain kind of movement and visual style which, in many circles, is seen as simplistic or unpolished. However, with dozens of Flash animated television series, countless more Flash animated television commercials, and award-winning online shorts in circulation, Flash animation is enjoying a renaissance.
Flash Slideshow - elements that add interactivity to your website. A Flash animation can be made from a set of images, manually by using a specialized software or automatically with scripts.
Google Adsense - online advertising program that crawls your on-page content in search of relevant keywords and generates related text and image ads, displaying them on your website. When browsers click one of the ads, you can earn money based on the campaign price you set with Google.
Mouseover - A JavaScript element that triggers a change on an item (typically a graphic change, such as making an image or hyperlink appear ) in a Web page when the pointer passes over it. The change usually signifies that the item is a link to related or additional information. Mouseovers are widely used in Navigation Bars, pop-up windows, and/or form submissions.
Metatag - A meta tag is a specific HTML tag used to define meta data on your Web pages. The most commonly used meta tags are: description, keywords, author, refresh. Meta tags are placed in the <head> of an HTML document, and they typically do not display where the reader can easily see them. They are used to provide additional information about the page either for databases and search engines or for the author of the site to keep a record of the pages.
Paypal - Founded in 1998, PayPal, an eBay Company, is akin to an online (Internet) banking service. It enables any individual or business with an e-mail address to securely and quickly send and receive payments online.
Search Engine Optimization - the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines via the "natural" or un-paid ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results.
Transport Layer Security - cryptographic protocols that provide communications security over the Internet.[1] TLS and SSL encrypt the segments of network connections above the Transport Layer, using symmetric cryptography for privacy and a keyed message authentication code for message reliability.
WHOIS - (pronounced as the phrase who is) is a query and response protocol that is widely used for querying databases that store the registered users or assignees of an Internet resource, such as a domain name, an IP address block, or an autonomous system, but is also used for a wider range of other information. The protocol stores and delivers database content in a human-readable format.