Pronounced WIZ-zee-wig. Short for what you see is what you get. An application that enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear on a document when printed. WYSIWYG is especially popular for desktop publishing

 

Content Management System (also referred to as CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site.

A web site content management system often runs on the website's server. Most systems provide controlled access for various ranks of users such as administrators, copy editors, senior editors, and content creators. Access is usually via a web browser program, possibly combined with some use of FTP for uploading content.

HTM: Hypertext markup language file contains hypertext capable of being read and interpreted by a browser.

HTML: HyperText Markup Language, the coding language used to create hypertext documents for the World Wide Web. In HTML, a block of text can be surrounded with tags that indicate how it should appear (for example, in bold face or italics). Also, in HTML a word, a block of text, or an image can be linked to another file on the Web. HTML files are viewed with a World Wide Web browser.

SHTML: An HTML file utilizing server-side includes for repetitive sections of web pages throughout a web site. An SHTML file can be somewhat dynamic; a typical use is the automatic inclusion of a "last modified" date, headers (such as navigation or logo), and footers.

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms

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JAVA Script: JavaScript is a script language - a system of programming codes, created by Netscape that can be embedded into the HTML of a web page to add functionality.

Cascading style sheets (CSS; also referred to as style sheets): Language used to describe how an HTML document should be formatted. Helps to give and maintain the overall look and feel of the web page fonts, font sizes, margins, spacing, headers, etc.

Style sheets have quickly become a standard in maintaining formatting of HTML content throughout a web site.

A HTML editor is application software for creating or editing web pages.

Words that describe your business so that they can be used by viewers searching for information with a search engine like Google, Yahoo, etc. Keywords are part of the "meta-tags" which also includes the title tag and description tag of web pages.

(File Transfer Protocol) FTP is to login to another Internet Site for the purposes of retreiving and/or sending files, a method of moving files between two Internet Sites.