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Web 2.0 is the popular term describing web applications that support interactive information sharing, user-centric design and collaboration across the Web. It embraces different technologies, including blogs, wikis, social networking sites, instant messaging, web conferencing, voice over IP (VoIP), peer to peer networking and IPTV.
Web analytics is the measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimising web usage.
A web banner is a form of advertising on the internet. This form of online advertising involves embedding an advertisement into a web page to attract traffic.
Web based email (also known as webmail) is the most commonly used account for personal email. Web based email has advantages over other email services as it allows users to access their mailbox from anywhere with an internet connection.
A Web browser is a software application that interprets the coding language of the World Wide Web in graphic form, and displays the translation rather than the coding. This allows anyone to “browse the Web” by simple point and click navigation, bypassing the need to know commands used in software languages.
It manages the retrieval, presentation and navigation information resources such as web pages, images, video or other pieces of content.
Web hosting is a service that provides space to 'house' your website on the world wide web making it visible to users on the internet.
A web server distributes the load over a number of computer servers. If a site you look at is very slow its usually because its not got a web server, therefore the load cannot be shared.
A document or resource of information connected to the World Wide Web and viewable by anyone connected to the internet who has a web browser.
A computer connected to the internet that maintains a collection of related web pages, images of videos on the World Wide Web. A website is typically accessible from the same URL.
(Pronounced “who is”) This is a common query method used to ascertain details about website addresses. It can be used to ascertain whether a website address is available for registration. If already registered, a WHOIS query provides details of the current website owners (sometimes including names and addresses), renewal dates, the IP address of the site and the sites registrars.
A communication system that uses low-power microwave radio signals to connect laptop computers, PDAs, and web-enabled cell phones to the Internet.
Wifi – A method of connecting devices to the internet without wires. Wifi is available in the home through the use of a wifi router, and in public wifi hotspots. Users are able to securely connect any wifi enabled device to the internet without the use of cables.
A wiki is a collection of web pages designed to enable anyone who can access it to contribute or modify content, using a simplified markup language. Wikis are often used to create collaborative web sites. Wikipedia, the collaborative encyclopedia is one of the best-known wikis.
A free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation.
A wireless LAN (WLAN) is a wireless local area network that links PCs, laptops, PDAs and smartphones together and usually provides Internet access. This gives you the mobility to move around within a broad coverage area and still be connected to the network.
The World Wide Web (www) is the interconnected content that can be accessed on the Internet. A web browser gives you access to all of the various documents, web pages, emails, videos, and other linked content that is available on the millions of web sites hosted on the Internet.
The Internet provides the infrastructure, the World Wide Web provides the content and allows the user to get to it and navigate their way through it all.
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