Welcome to the Superior Commerce Glossary!

          For those that are not 100% technically fluent, we decided to give you a reference for any terms you may not know. Just look up the word, and read. For a term that is not found, please e-mail us, and we will upload the definition to this page. If you are confused about the term “upload”, just scroll down.

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Accounting Module: A shopping cart interface that allows for information to be sent to accounting software

Affiliate Module: Allows information about affiliates to be stored in a categorical manner

Applet: A small application written in Java that is embedded in a web page and requires the user to have the plug in control installed. An Applet can perform calculations, display graphics, and do other simple tasks (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

ASP (Active Server Pages): A technology in Web pages containing server side scripts that run primarily on Microsoft servers (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Autoresponder: An e-mail that is automatically sent out after an event has occurred. An event may be something such as the purchase of an item. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Backend: All information that is processed as a result of ecommerce, is stored into different categories (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Bandwidth: The rate at which the current connection supports the transmission and reception of data (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Body: The part of a web page that contains all the visible content, such as images, text, tables, and other visual elements (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Broadband: An internet connection that enables faster data transfer. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Broadcast Tool: An editor that allows a message to be mass-emailed to a select group (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Cable connection: A connection for a high-bandwidth Internet connection over a cable TV line. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Cell: A single field in a table. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

CGI (Common Gateway Interface): A standard way to process a user’s request to a web server to receive data back or process the data. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Cold Fusion: Technology from Macromedia for building web sites that integrate with databases. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Cookies: A collection of information, usually including a username and the current date and time, stored on the local computer of a person using the World Wide Web, used chiefly by websites to identify users who have previously registered or visited the site.

CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): A set of style definitions that determine how a given element will appear in a web browser. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Custom configuration: Having the ability to combine different items in a package

Database:  A collection of data arranged for ease and speed of search and retrieval

Database Server: A stand-alone computer in a local area network that holds and
manages the database

Digital download: Having the ability to download software off the internet

Download: Transferring data (usually a file) from another computer to the computer you are using.

DSL (Digital Subscriber Line): A high bandwidth Internet connection over a telephone line. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Ecommerce: Commerce that is transacted electronically, as over the Internet.

Firefox: A type of Web browser

Firewall: Hardware or software located on a network server that protects users on a private network from users on other networks. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Frontend: The screen that the public views where all purchase information is entered to be processed. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

FTP (File Transfer Protocol): An internet protocol that is used to exchange files among computers over the internet. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Google: A type of search engine.

GIF: A standard web graphic format that is good for line art that contains large blocks of the same color. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Hosting: A computer containing data or programs that another computer can access by means of a network or modem.

HTML (Hypertext Markup Language): A language that consists of paired and individual markup tags and is used to create web pages. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Internal Search engine: An internal software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms

Internet Explorer: A type of Web browser. Most used.

JavaScript: An interpreted scripting language originally developed by Netscape that is used to add scripted functionality to web pages. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

J-PEG: A standard web graphic format that is good for photographs and images containing color gradients. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)
 
LAN (Local Area Network): A group of computers connected together to share data, applications, and other resources. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)
 
Merchant Account: An account setup whereby a merchant can process orders, usually in the form of credit cards

Meta tag: An HTML tag that encodes information about a web page that is used to index the page in Internet search engines. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Multimedia: A combination of multiple media, such as images, text, and video. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Netscape: A type of web browser.

Online store: Selling and buying goods and services over the Internet

Payment Gateway: A combination of software and hardware that provides an interface to the bank card processing network.

PDF (Portable Document Format): A file format for encoding printed documents with fonts and navigation and elements. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor): A scripting language that is embedded in web pages and processed by the server. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Product Gallery: Products are organized in specific manner for purchasing

Real Time Payments: On-line authorization of a credit card number in real time informing the merchant that the card has been approved

Real time shipping: On-line shipping rates in real time, that enables the merchant to be able to send a product through a shipping merchant

Search Engine: A software program that searches a database and gathers and reports information that contains or is related to specified terms

SEO (Search Engine Optimization): The process of developing web pages or web sites in such a way as to achieve favorable placement in search engines and directories

Server: A server is a computer that handles requests for data, email, file transfers, and other network services from other computers (ie, clients).

Shopping Cart: Buying and selling of goods and services over the Internet

Spiders: An automated program (sometimes called a webcrawler) which crawls over the World Wide Web, gathering web pages for search engines. Large search engines employ many spiders.

SSL (Secure Socket Layers): A protocol designed by Netscape Communications Corporation to provide encrypted communications on the Internet.

Storefront: see Frontend.

Upload: The process of sending a file from a user workstation to the server.

URL (Uniform Resource Locator): The address of a file that is accessible on the internet. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Web Browser: Software that interprets the markup of files in HTML, formats them into Web pages, and displays them to the user.

WYSIWYG (What You See  Is What You Get): A graphical interface that presents a Web page that is very close to what will appear in the Web browser. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

XML (Extensible Markup Language): A structured, tag based language for describing data. (Source: Dreamweaver MX 2004)

Yahoo: A type of directory.

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