1. Ajax - Acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. A combination of several programming tools to build interactive applications. Allows the content of a web page to be updated or changed without the entire page being reloaded.
2. CGI-BIN–A place (folder) where common gateway interface (CGI) scripts are stored for a website or blog.
3. Creative Commons – A non-profit organization. Creative Commons has developed a set of free public licenses to enable authors to share their work with others. See Some Rights Reserved.
4. CSS– Cascading Style Sheets are a standard for specifying the appearance of text and other webpage elements.
5. Folksonomy – Short for folk (or folks) and taxonomy. A user generated taxonomy used to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photographs, Web links and other web content using open ended labels called tags.
6. Footer – The bottom part of a blog or webpage. Usually consists of navigation links and a copyright statement.
7. FTP - Short for file transfer protocol. A standard protocol for exchange of files between computers on the Internet.
8. Header – The topmost portion of a web page or blog page. Common elements include website title, graphics and navigation.
9. HTML – Acronym for Hyper Text Markup Language. The dominant programming language used to create websites and web pages on the World Wide Web.
10. Index page – The home page or front page of a blog or website. This is the default page that displays when the top level of a website is accessed.
11. Link Popularity – A measurement of the quality and quantity of inbound links to a webpage. A factor which affects a website’s search engine rankings.
12. Live Bookmarks – A feature of the Firefox web browser. Updated content from your favorite sites is brought to you.
13. Mashup –A web application that combines data from multiple sources into a single integrated tool. Example: Cartographic data from Google Maps is used to add location maps in a real estate listings website.
14. Navbar – Short for navigation bar. A common navigation feature, this is a horizontal row of navigation buttons or links usually located near the top of a website or blog.
15. OPML – Short for Outline Processor Markup Language. This is an XML format that allows exchange of outline-structured information.
16. Page Rank – Google’s measurement of how important a page is and affects search rankings. This is an index that values Web pages on a scale of 0 to 10, based largely on link popularity.
17. PHP – Short for Hypertext Preprocessor. An open source, server-side HTML scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. A programming language for creating web applications.
18. Read-Write Web – Another name for Web 2.0. The second generation of the web making collaboration and interacting easier using blogs and wikis.
19. Reciprocal Links – These are links to another website placed on your site in exchange for links back to your site from theirs. Used to improve search engine rankings. Sometimes called link love.
20. Semantic Web – The future evolution of the World Wide Web. The Semantic Web will allow people to more easily find, share, and combine information.
21. SEO – Short for search engine optimization. Techniques and strategies (white hat, black hat) to gain higher rankings in the search engine results.
22. Social Networking – Social networking is linking people to each other in some way. Social networking sites bring people together who people interested in a particular subject.
23. Some Rights Reserved – This is a concept started by Creative Commons without any charge. This allows copyright holders to more easily share a copyrighted work and overcome the inherently restrictive nature of copyright law.
24. URL – Uniform Resource Locator. The complete address for a webpage or file. Example: http://www.dougwilliams.com/index.php
25. Web 2.0 – A term coined by O’Reilly Media in 2004 to describe a second generation of the web. This describes more user participation, social interaction and collaboration with the use of blogs, wikis, social networking and folksonomies.
26. Web Syndication – A form of syndication in which a section of a website is made available for other sites to use. Examples are RSS and Atom feeds.
27. Widgets – Visual objects, icons or graphical interface elements that can be manipulated by the computer user to perform a desired function online or on their computer.
28. Wiki – Short for “wiki wiki” which means “rapidly” in the Hawaiian language. Wiki is a website that allows visitors to edit content using their browser. This is a collaborative website.
29. XML - Short for eXtensible Markup Language. A simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML; a general-purpose markup language for blog syndication.

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