Sunday, October 6, 2013

Web Acronyms

Acronym Definition
URL Universal Resoure Location, is generally entered into address bar to navigate to webpages
FTP File Transfer Protocol, is generally used for uploading to remote web servers
HTML HyperText Markup Language, used for displaying web content.
ISP Internet Service Provider.
ADSL

Asymmetric Digital Subscriber line.  Uses frequencies not used by voices to speed up connections over copper cable lines.

JPEG Joint Photographers Expert Group.  An extremely common file format for images.  One of 3 formats supported for web images.
GIF Graphics Interchange Format.  A common format for moving images.  Typically low quality and one of 3 formats supported for web images.
PNG Portable Network Graphic.  A common format for images.  It supports transparency.  One of 3 formats supported for web images.
CMS Content Management System.  Makes it easier to edit web pages that are updated frequently.  Especially useful for blogs and for displaying RSS feeds.
FAQ Frequently Asked Questions.  Provides answers to questions asked frequently
P2P Peer to Peer.  Typically used for downloading large, popular files using a peer to peer client such as bittorrent or utorrent.
PDF Portable Document Format.  Very common format for business documents and digital manuals requiring graphics.

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