Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line Technology that allows data to be sent over existing copper phone lines. An ADSL connection is much faster than a standard phone modem connection. … [Read more...]
Glossary of Internet Marketing, Development and Related Terms
Affiliate Program
Affiliate programs reward site owners for referring customers to their businesses. They operate on a pay-by-results basis. This means that merchants pay only after the affiliate has successfully referred a buying customer … [Read more...]
Alias
An alternate name that is associated with a real file or address. … [Read more...]
ALT Tags
HTML tags describing an image. They appear when the mouse is rolled over the image on a web page. Search engines can look for keyword phrases within ALT tags. … [Read more...]
Anonymous FTP
Using FTP without establishing a user ID and password. … [Read more...]
Antivirus Software
Software written specifically to combat harmful viruses. Anti-Virus software seeks and removes viruses from your computer. … [Read more...]
Applet
A small Java program. … [Read more...]
ASCII
American Standard Code for Information Interchange This is the global standard for code numbers used by computers to represent all upper and lower-case Latin letters, numbers, and punctuation. … [Read more...]
ASP
Application Service Provider Active Server pages A hosting environment that extends the normal capabilities of a web server and exposes objects for use in web programming, also referred to as a programming language. … [Read more...]
AUP
Acceptable Use Policy A set of rules that inform web hosting customers what they can and cannot do through their hosting accounts. Often such policies place certain restrictions on e-mail use (such as spamming) and … [Read more...]
Automated Submission
The process of using a software or a web application to get a site listed in Search Engine and Directories … [Read more...]
Avatar
A computer generated persona, used primarily in online gamming, forums and chat rooms. … [Read more...]
