Web

HTTP cookie

February 15th 2012

A cookie, also known as an HTTP cookie, web cookie, or browser cookie, is used for an origin website to send state information to a user’s browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site. The state information can be used for authentication, identification of a user session, user’s preferences, [...]

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

February 15th 2012

File Transfer Protocol (FTP) is a standard Internet protocol for transmitting files between computers on the Internet. Like the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which transfers displayable Web pages and related files, and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), which transfers e-mail, FTP is an application protocol that uses the Internet’s TCP/IP protocols. FTP is commonly used to [...]

Browser

February 15th 2012

A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web. The word “browser” seems to have originated prior to the Web as a generic term for user interfaces that let you browse (navigate through and read) text files online. Technically, a Web browser is [...]

GUI (graphical user interface)

February 15th 2012

A GUI is a graphical user interface to a computer. As you read this, you are looking at the GUI or graphical user interface of your particular Web browser. The term came into existence because the first interactive user interfaces to computers were not graphical; they were text-and-keyboard oriented and usually consisted of commands you had [...]

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

February 15th 2012

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the set of rules for transferring files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web. As soon as a Web user opens their Web browser, the user is indirectly making use of HTTP. HTTP is an application protocol that runs on top of the TCP/IP suite of protocols [...]

World Wide Web (WWW)

February 15th 2012

The term WWW refers to the World Wide Web or simply the Web. The World Wide Web consists of all the public Web sites connected to the Internet worldwide, including the client devices (such as computers and cell phones) that access Web content. The WWW is just one of many applications of the Internet and [...]

IBM (International Business Machines)

February 15th 2012

IBM (International Business Machines) is by far the world’s largest information technology company in terms of revenue ($88 billion in 2000) and by most other measures, a position it has held for about the past 50 years. IBM products include hardware and software for a line of business servers, storage products, custom-designed microchips, and application software. [...]

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20 Websites I Follow on Web Design and Development

October 30th 2011

Today’s web is infinite. You can search and find the answer for any topic (thanks to Google and other search engines) you looking for. Most of this information is free, unlimited and reusable. So, take advantage and learn. Imagine learning at least one useful thing each day so that you are up-to-date with today’s rapidly [...]

social-bookmarking

Using Social Bookmarks

September 26th 2011

Why Do we Need to Use Social Bookmarks? Every time we add a bookmark to one of our pages we create a backlink. If we bookmark every piece of content this becomes a lot overtime. But goal here is to make sure that the bookmarking sites provide a real, do-follow link. People debate as to [...]