Web Concept Reference
Web site design
Web site design is where the site content is created and assembled
into pages. Quality web site design is critical to entice
your audience and project a professional image.
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Theme design
Theme design creates the look and feel for your site. Themes
mix visual design concepts such as color, shape, and metaphor
with site navigation functionality. A theme must grab your
audience's attention and motivate them to explore further.
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Production processing
Production processing makes site content 'web ready'. Graphics
are compressed into web formats, text are translated into
electronic form (if it is not already), and multi-media are
processed accordingly. While production processing is a fairly
strait-forward process it can be time consuming.
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Web page development
Web page development is where site content, and client scripting
are integrated into HTML/XML pages. Quality page development
requires knowledge of all aspects of site design.
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e-Commerce
e-Commerce is a special web application that allows users
to browse products and make online purchases with a credit
card. e-Commerce is a very popular mechanism for companies
large and small to sell their wares on a world-wide market.
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Merchant / Gateways
Merchant accounts and processing gateways are Internet services
that enable online processing of credit cards. Online merchant
accounts are variations of the traditional credit card processing
used by retail stores and phone order houses. A business must
qualify for merchant account; each provider has a different
set of requirements.
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Search Engine
A search engine allows people to find web pages/sites that
contain a given keyword phrase. When a user enters and makes
a query the engine returns the pages/sites that it determines
to best match the search criteria. Each search engine has
its own method of indexing a page/site to determine which
ones rank best.
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Search Keywords
Keyword phrases are the words and control symbols used as
query input for a database search. They are most commonly
used in reference to web page search engines where the keywords
describe the content the searcher is seeking.
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Web Server
A web server is a computer with special software to host web
pages and web applications. Web server's traditional function
has been to serve static HTML (and more recently XML) pages.
As the Internet has become more functional, i.e. e-commerce
and dynamic sites, increasing emphasis is placed on a servers
ability to host web applications.
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Web Hosting
Web hosting provides a HTML/XML server and networking that
allows the public Internet, or private Intranet, to access
your pages. The scripts for web applications and e-commerce
also reside on a hosting server. All web sites must be hosted,
whether on your own internal servers or through the 3rd party
hosting services.
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