Domain names

A domain name can be registered for one year for about nine dollars. During the height of the dot com bubble in the late 1990s, popular domain names were being resold for staggering amounts of money. The most noteworthy of domain name sales occurred in late 1999 when business.com was sold for $7.5 million.
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UDDI

UDDI stands for "Universal Description Discovery and Integration." UDDI is a platform-neutral framework for describing web services, discovering businesses, and integrating business services using the Internet. UDDI enables businesses to publish service listings and define how the services or software applications interact over the Internet. UDDI was introduced in August, 2000.
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WebDAV

WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol that allow users to collaboratively edit and manage files and documents on remote web servers. WebDAV is supported by major vendors such as Microsoft and Apple. There are many open source WebDAV software clients available.
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The Website Builder's Daily Quote

The term aggregation is defined as a group of distinct or varied things, persons, etc. On the web, aggregation is necessary in order to offer faster, more organized ways of finding information. Human aggregation takes place on blogging sites, favorite lists, and resource pages. Machine aggregation is done with search engines and site directories, such as Google and DMOZ.
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7Zip

7Zip is a free file archive tool with high compression ratio. The drag-and-drop interface supports ZIP, CAB, RAR, ARJ, GZIP, BZIP2, Z, TAR, CPIO, RPM and DEB formats. 7Zip also allows you to password-protect files for added security. Download 7Zip free at 7-zip.org.
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Don't Make Me Think

The book "Don't Make Me Think," by Steve Krug, covers the difficult subject of web usability design. Krug provides tips, techniques, and examples with the goal of allowing users to surf a well-designed site with minimal cognitive strain. Topics include: user patterns; designing for scanning; wise use of copy; navigation design; home page layout; and usability testing.
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Site diagram

A site diagram is one of the first and most valuable steps in planning a website. A site diagram is a visual representation of all or some of the web pages within a website. A site diagram could also be thought of as a map or blueprint of the pages within a website and the links that join the pages.
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Digital Web Magazine

Digital Web Magazine is an online magazine intended for professional web designers, web developers and information architects. The magazine consists primarily of work contributed by web authors. This recommended magazine is recognized by nearly all of the major web design agencies in the industry. Learn more at digital-web.com.
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Animated GIFs

An animated GIF file is a graphic that renders moving images. Animated GIFs contain a set of images within a single file that are rendered in a specified order. An animated GIF can loop endlessly or it can present one or a few sequences and then stop the animation. Animated GIFs are frequently used in web ad banners.
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The Website Builder's Daily Quote

The e-commerce term "drop shipping" refers to an arrangement whereby a mail-order or Internet merchant accepts orders for products, and then pays a third-party manufacturer or distributor to ship the product to the customer. This type of e-commerce business allows an online merchant to sell products without paying for the storage of large quantities of inventory.
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XHTML

XHTML stands for "Extensible Hypertext Markup Language." XHTML is the follow-up version of HTML 4, the current version of HTML. Unlike HTML, XHTML can be extended by anyone that uses it. New elements and attributes can be defined and added to those that already exist, making possible new ways to embed content in a web page.
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AboutUs.org

AboutUs is a wiki providing information on every domain in the world. The free directory that anyone can edit offers a great place to provide further information on your website, products, descriptions, background, etc. Anyone is free to add or edit a domain entry. See this unique directory at AboutUs.org.
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Web application

A "web application" refers to a program that is downloaded from a web server each time it is run in a browser. The term typically refers to the use of web browsers with Java-based or .NET applications. Web apps differ from traditional web sites in that they are a series of scripted web pages tightly integrated with compiled programs, versus stand-alone HTML or Java scripted web pages.
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Website Links

Find out how many sites are linked to your website and who they are. In Google or MSN, type your website URL prefixed by the phrase link and a colon. For example, link:www.yourwebsite.com. In the Yahoo search box, type in linkdomain:yourwebsite.com.
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Search engines

Search engines are changing. No longer are search engines querying just a large single-index of web pages for results. Google's Universal search and Yahoo's Glue are searching beyond web pages bringing back results from images, video, news, blogs, and even from specific web sites such as WebMD and Wikipedia.

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SEO mistakes

According to search engine optimization expert Mike Banks Valentine, a critical SEO mistake is changing filenames and file directory structure during a website redesign. Valentine suggests keeping old filenames and site directory folder structures in place or to use "301 permanently moved" redirects to new pages from all previous pages.
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Google Custom Search

Google Custom Search provides a free custom search engine for websites. This is a tailored search experience, built using Google's core search technology, which prioritizes or restricts search results based on specified websites and pages. Webmasters can incorporate a search box into their websites. See google.com/cse.
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Web reminders

Web users can get free email reminders and notes for personal events, occasions or business meetings. Free-minder.com and MemoToMe.com are two such websites offering this free service. After simple registration, you can send notes and reminders to yourself and never forget another birthday, occasion, or event.
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WebScale

WebScale offers two useful tools for webmasters. Site Timer checks and validates a website page and displays the page's HTTP headers. Engine Viewer views a web page in the same way a search engine does, from how it breaks down the HTML, to which links it extracts, and how it interprets robot exclusion rules. Try these tools at webscale.com.
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URI vs. URL

A URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) is a string of characters used to identify or name a resource on the World Wide Web. A URL (Uniform Resource Locator) is one kind of URI that represents the global address of a document on the web.
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Webmonkey

Webmonkey has been providing tutorials, articles, and reference for web developers since November 2000. Webmonkey is a recommended site for beginning and advanced web developers who need further insight into web programming, databases, multimedia, and ecommerce. Learn more at webmonkey.com.
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Viral marketing

Viral marketing is a marketing phenomenon that uses word of mouth or email to reach and affect an audience. The marketing message facilitates and encourages people to pass the message further along their communication channel via the web, email, blogs, etc. Most viral marketing programs give away valuable products or services to attract attention.
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DOCTYPE

Every HTML document requires a document type declaration, according to HTML standards. The DOCTYPE declaration is the very first element in a document, before the HTML tag. This tag identifies the page's HTML Document Type Definition (DTD), which specifies the usable HTML syntax for a web page.
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SGML

Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) is a meta description language developed by IBM in the 1960s, designed for organizing elements of a document. HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and XML (Extensible Markup Language) are both descendents of SGML. There are many other descendents of SGML, such as MathML and MusicXML.
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Mosaic

The first web browser for the masses was released in February 1993. The Mosaic web browser was developed by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, two students from the National Center for Supercomputer Applications. Mosaic provided support for graphics, sounds, and video clips. Mosaic quickly became the most popular web browser and helped accelerate the growth of the web in 1993.
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The PHP language

The PHP language was created by Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995. Lerdorf created a personal set of Perl scripts he called Personal Home Page Tools. He upgraded the scripts to communicate with databases and enabled users to develop simple dynamic web applications. By 1997, the second version of PHP had a base of several thousand users around the world.
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Pay-per-call

"Pay-per-call" programs are similar to "pay-per-click" online advertising programs. The difference is that online pay-per-call ads are designed to entice people to pick up the phone and call your business instead of clicking through to a website link. A phone call is the billable event rather than a click. Notable pay-per-click services are Ingenio and ZiffLeads.
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Site Explorer

Yahoo's Site Explorer lets website owners access information Yahoo has compiled about their site's online presence. Website owners can see which web pages and sub pages are indexed by Yahoo Search, track sites that link into web pages, and view the most popular pages from a site. Learn more at siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com
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