David Martin — Web Developer
Blue Mountains, Greater Western Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Glossary of Terms
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| Web Pages and Web Sites |
| Acronym |
Term |
Definition |
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Web page |
A document on the World Wide Web. |
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Website |
A set of linked web pages belonging to a
business, organisation, individual, etc. |
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Static web page |
Content is always the same, unless edited. Eg: this
page. |
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Dynamic web page |
Content changes according to certain rules
or conditions. |
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Interactive web page |
Content responds to input from visitor. |
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Database-driven website |
Web pages are assembled on-the-fly by drawing
information from an online database. Dynamic, and may be interactive. |
| ASP |
Active Server Pages |
Page content is the result of calculations, database queries, or other
processes carried out on the Web server. |
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Online database |
A database stored online (on an Internet server) to function in a
database-driven website. |
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| Under the Hood: The Engine |
| IIS |
MS Internet Information Server |
Connects websites to the World Wide Web. |
| MS |
Microsoft |
A Seattle software business. |
| Win2k |
Windows 2000 Professional |
Professional version of MS Windows operating system.
Essentially Windows NT 5.0. |
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Access |
Microsoft Office database module. |
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FrontPage |
Microsoft Office website development module. |
| ASP.Net |
"ASP-dot-net" |
Microsoft's new, much hyped, gee-whiz
solution to the world's problems. Originally ASP 4.0. |
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| Further Under the Hood: Cog-Wheels and Pulleys |
| HTML |
HyperText Markup Language |
Primary language for writing web pages. |
| VB-Script |
Visual Basic scripting language |
Subset of the Visual Basic language, for programming ASP pages. |
| SQL |
Structured Query Language |
Language for querying databases. May be
used in ASP pages. |
| Jet SQL |
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Version of SQL used by MS Access. |
| ODBC |
Open DataBase Connectivity |
A standard for accessing data, from a variety of database
applications. |
| OLE-DB |
Object Linking & Embedding - DataBase |
More powerful & more generic successor to ODBC. |
| ADO |
ActiveX Data Objects |
Interface between OLE-DB and the Web browser. |
| CDO |
Collaborative Data Objects |
Sending e-mails from ASP web pages is a popular use for CDO. |
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