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| WYSIWYG |
| Abbreviation for What You See Is What You Get. |
| W3C |
| World Wide Web Consortium. The group that is steering standards development for the World Wide Web. The W3C exists to realize the full potential of the web. The Consortium is run in the United States by MIT Laboratory for Computer Science and in Europe by INRIA, in collaboration with CERN where the web originated. |
| HTML |
(HyperText Markup Language)
The lingua franca (common language) for creating documents on the World Wide Web, HyperText Markup Language (HTML) defines the structure and layout of a Web document by using a variety of tags and attributes (a field or characteristic). |
| SGML |
(Standard Generalized Markup Language)
Adopted by the International Standards Organization in 1986, SGML is a text-based language for describing the content and structure of digital documents. HTML evolved from SMGL |
| DHTML |
| Stands Dynamic Hypertext Mark-up Language. DHTML is an HTML extension that allows web pages to react to the end users' input, such as displaying a web page based on the type of browser or computer end users are viewing a page with. |
| XML |
(eXtensible Markup Language)
A pared down version of SGML, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) enables designers to create their own customized tags to provide functionality not available with HTML. |
| XHTML |
(Extensible Hypertext Markup Language)
eXtensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) combines the strength of HTML with the power of XML, It is designed for Web clients that do not support the full set of XHTML features; for example, Web clients such as mobile phones, PDAs, pagers, and settop boxes. In addition, XHTML provides the framework for future extensions of HTML. |
| VRML |
| Virtual Reality Modeling Language- A programming language that supports graphical animation of virtual spaces of World Wide Web pages. Detailed three-dimensional images can be created with small programs, allowing the programs to arrive quickly at usersé computers and be viewed easily with special VRML browser applications. |
| CSS |
| Abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheet, a feature of HTML developed by the W3C. With Cascading Style sheets, both web designers and end users can create style templates (sheet) that specifies how different text elements (paragraphs, headings, hyperlinks, etc.) appear on a web page. Currently, not all browsers express CSS formatting in the same manner. A Cascading Style Sheet allows you to put all your page styles (colors, fonts, layout, etc.) into one external file, rather than manually formatting each individual page and clogging the HTML code with hundreds of lines of excess coding. |
| Content Management |
| CM, is a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information. This digital information is often referred to as content or, to be precise, digital content. Digital content may take the form of text, such as documents, multimedia files, such as audio or video files, or any other file type which follows a content lifecycle which requires management. |
| JavaScript |
| It is a scripting language developed by Netscape. JavaScript can make web pages more animated and dynamic in terms of graphics and navigation. One of the most common graphic JavaScript effects is called a mouseover, and Javascript navigation is commonly created using drop-down menus. |
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