Internet Glossary

Key Terms and Definitions

Web Hosting

Web hosting is an online storage service for information, images, video, or any content accessible through the Web.

Web hosting package

Network Solutions' Web hosting packages are designed for the advanced needs of a technical user who wants to maintain one or more Web sites. All of our packages include generous amounts of disk storage and data transfer, FTP accounts, e-mailboxes, sub-domains and directory pointers, domain name (with annual agreement), secure hosting with 99.9% uptime, scripting and database functionality, site traffic reports, and your choice of Unix or Windows platform.

Web Mail

Web Mail allows you to access your e-mail account from anywhere using a Web browser. You should use Web Mail when you cannot access the computer that you have set up with POP access.

Web Page

A Web page is a document created with HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) that is part of a group of hypertext documents or resources available on the World Wide Web. Collectively, these documents and resources form what is known as a Web site. Web pages can contain hypertext links to other places within the same document, to other documents at the same Web site, or to documents at other Web sites. They can also contain fill-in forms, photos, large clickable images, sounds, and videos for downloading.

Web Site

A Web site is a collection of HTML documents or Web pages, that are linked together and that exist on the Web at a particular server. Exploring a Web site usually begins with the home page, which may lead you to more information about that site. A single server may support multiple Web sites.

Web Site Building Tools

Every hosting package includes ImageCafé® Web Site Creator, our premium Web site building tool. ImageCafé® Web Site Creator is a template based Web site design tool that lets you quickly and easily create a professional and customized Web site using our step-by-step wizard to select your design, color, theme and images.

Web site package

A Web site package includes all of the products and services you need to design, build, publish, and promote your Web site. All Network Solutions Web site packages include Web site hosting, a Web site address (domain name) (with annual agreement), e-mail addresses linked to the domain name (example: kate@kateskites.com), and various online marketing tools. In addition, depending on the type of package you select, the package may include design and maintenance by a professional Web designer or access to an easy-to-use Web site building tool including professionally designed Web page templates.

Web site traffic

The visitors who come to your Web site are collectively referred to you as your site's ?traffic.? You may find it helpful to use a page view counter to track how many visitors your site receives. More sophisticated tracking tools, such as SuperStats, compile Web site traffic reports on what sites your visitors come from when they arrive at your Web site, where they go within your Web site, and the activities they engage in on your site.

WHOIS

WHOIS is a directory of domain name information. When you register a domain name, your postal address, e-mail address and phone number are automatically published in the public WHOIS database. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the nonprofit body responsible for accrediting domain name registrars, requires that this personal information be accurate and available for anybody to view on the Internet.

Windows - .NET

A programming infrastructure created by Microsoft for building, deploying, and running applications and services that use .NET technologies, such as desktop applications and Web services.

Windows - ASP

Active Server Page is a server-side scripting technology that can be used to create dynamic and interactive Web applications. An ASP page is an HTML page that contains server-side scripts that are processed by a Web server before being sent to the user's browser.

Windows - MS Access

A fast and flexible relational database management system, developed by Microsoft, which utilizes SQL.

Windows - MS SQL Database

An advanced server-side relational database system, designed for corporate users or those with intensive transactions.

Windows - Web Site Statistics

Industry leading Web site statistic tool that enables you to monitor your Web site's performance. Types of data include the number of hits, viewer locations, and peak browsing times.

Windows Media Streaming

Microsoft® Windows Media Streaming allows for real-time transmission of audio and video files from your Web site. Network Solutions offers Windows Media Streams. One stream is equivalent to one current online listener.

World Wide Web (WWW)

You can think of the Web as a worldwide collection of text and multimedia files and other network services interconnected via a system of hypertext documents. Http (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) was created as a means for sharing data internationally, instantly, and inexpensively. With hypertext, a word or phrase can contain a link to other text. To achieve this, CERN developed a programming language called HTML, which allows you to easily link to other pages or network services on the Web.