Web Stuff

We at My Sunshine Coast Life always endeavour to operate in the most ethical and moral manner possible. This means always being upfront and honest with full information as to site statistics and how this site works or just answering questions fully in a way that each individual can understand without being misleading in any way shape or form.

All the IT terms that are used on websites can be really confusing... As we come across ones that we see or get queried on we will put on this page. Of course if you are unsure of any Internet Terms, just contact us and we will try to add them to this page here :)

Over time we are going to try to work on the below terms (and more if they are added) to put into Plain, Everyday English (if possible) what they actually mean, and basically, whether you really need to know about them or not :)

Web Terminology:
ActiveX, Page Views, ADSL (Asymmetric Digital Subscriber Line), Animation, Anti-Virus Program, Banner Ad, Bandwidth, BMP (Bitmap), Bookmark, Broadband, Browse, Browser, Cache, Chat, Click, Clickthrough Rate, Computer Virus, Cookie, CSS, Database, Dial-up Connection, DNS (Domain Name Service), Domain Name, Download, E-mail (Electronic Mail), E-mail Address, Encryption, Firewall, Flash, Forum, Frame, FrontPage, FTP (File Transfer Protocol), GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), Gigabyte (GB), Graphics, Home Page, Hosting, HTML Editor, HTML Document, HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol), Hyperlink, Hypertext, IE (Internet Explorer), Internet, IP (Internet Protocol), ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network), ISP (Internet Service Provider), Java, JavaScript, JPEG (Joint Photographic Expert Group), JPEG and JPG, Kilobyte (KB or K), Keyword, Link, Linux, Mail, Megabyte (MB), Meta Data, Meta Tags, MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface), Modem, MP3 (MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3), MPEG (Moving Picture Expert Group), Multimedia, Navigate, Netscape, Mozilla, Thunderbird, Firefox, Newsgroup, Opera, OS (Operating System), Adobe, Page Impressions, PDF (Portable Document Format), Perl (Practical Extraction and Reporting Language), Ping, Platform, Plug-In, PNG (Portable Network Graphics), QuickTime, RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks), Redirect, RGB (Red Green Blue), Robot, Router, Script, Scripting Language, Search Engine, Server, Shareware, Shockwave, SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol), SPAM, Spider, Spoofing, Spyware, SQL (Structured Query Language), SSL (Secure Socket Layer), Streaming, Tag, TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol / Internet Protocol), Trojan Horse, Unix, UNZIP , Upload, URL (Uniform Resource Locator), VB (Visual Basic), Virus, Visitor, WAP (Wireless Application Protocol), Web Address, Web Applet, Web Browser, Web Error, Web Form, Web Hosting, Web Page, Web Robot, Web Server Error, Web Site, Web Spider, Windows Media, Windows, (Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 95/98, Windows XP and more), WINZIP, WMV, Worm, WWW (World Wide Web), WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get), ZIP, SEO (Search Engine Optimisation), SEM (Search Engine Marketing), Google, Adwords, gmail, hotmail, yahoo, Chrome and more...