Web Designing - Glossary

• Chat engine
  It is a public/private page (private page with registration or open access to any body according to our client’s wish) where visitors can share one-to-one or one-to-many conversations.
  
  
• Domains
  It is the website name (also called URL).
  
  
• Dynamic database
  It is needed when the website is needed to handle inserting pages or sections without the need of building the whole page by our team (dynamic website will allow the client to insert text/pictures or any other data forms into an application page and automatically they will appear on the desired page inside the design and without written a single line of code) or if the site is needed to show results on its own.
  
  
• E-commerce:
  It is about making money online from selling products/services and accepting different means of payment.
  
  
• Files Hosting Service:
  It is a whole dynamic service that can be the essence of your website or a part of it. The files hosting service allows its members to upload their files and share them with their friends by using a link (rapidshare.com like).
  
  
• Flash (animated) photo gallery:
  It is a dynamic flash-based photo gallery that shows the client’s pictures categorized into buttons for each group of pictures. The gallery has animations when loading pictures or when clicking on pictures to see a bigger version of it.
  
  
• Flash (animated) navigation menu:
  It is the top or left navigation menu to access the pages of the website. When “Flash” is used the menu can perform a certain animation when the user’s mouse cursor hovers over its buttons or when clicked. The Menu can contain a musical effect or a soundtrack.
  
  
• Flash intro:
  It is an animated short movie at the first page of the website. A Program that is called “Flash” is used to build that animation.
  
  
• Forum:
  It is a whole dynamic service that can be the essence of your website or a part of it. The forum allows every member to register at it and to gain access to submit posts inside topics, and the topics are categorizes based on our client’s wish. The members will be able to see each other’s posts and answer them.
  
  
• Friends Community:
  It is a whole dynamic service that can be the essence of your website or a part of it. The friends’ community allows its members to share data about themselves along with their pictures and making friends groups (facebook.com like).
  
  
• Hosting:
  It is the service responsible for how much capacity (among other services) you have for your website.
  
  
• Managing business website:
  It is a whole dynamic service that can be the essence of your website or a part of it. a private website/section that is made for no marketing purposes and no public access. Only it serves a limited number of users with defined dynamic tasks.
  (Ex: a business with a few branches and the sales agents can browse their current customers online and share info about them, also issuing purchase orders from the website which are printed or automatically emailed to suppliers).
  
  
• News plug-in:
  It is an up-to-date small area with the latest news updated from a chosen news website.
  
  
• Non-animated photo gallery:
  It is a simple photo gallery presenting the client’s pictures. No animations here.
  
  
• Pictures Hosting Service:
  It is a whole dynamic service that can be the essence of your website or a part of it. The pictures hosting service allows its members to upload their images and share them with their friends by using a link to see the picture or to download it (imageshack.net like).
  
  
• Search engine optimization:
  It’s a technique used to push the client’s website to the top ranks of search engines (Google, yahoo, msn and so on). The process is done to all website at one time. Although the search engines need around three month for its cycle to hit the client’s website.
  
  
• Template:
  It is the design of a single page. It is the “home” page in most cases.
  
  
• Video Community:
  It is a whole dynamic service that can be the essence of your website or a part of it. The video community allows its members to upload their videos to other members to see it with a public listing of the videos names and listing of all members (youtube.com like).
  
  
• Weather plug-in:
  It is an up-to-date small area with the weather condition displayed on it (including the temperature degree, humidity and wind direction of your chosen city).