Internet, computer and design terms
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| WAN |
Wide Area Network |
| WAP |
Wireless Application Protocol is the connection standard for delivering information to wireless devices such as mobile phones and PDAs. |
| Web Log |
Blog, a contraction of ‘web’ and ‘log’, describes a website consisting of date-related entries (or posts). Blogs are typically of a personal nature, although their use by companies as a marketing tool is increasing. |
| Web Mail | |
| Web Page |
A document designed for viewing in a web browser |
| Website |
An online brochure viewable through the internet |
| Wiki |
A wiki is a website that allows the visitors themselves to easily add, remove, and otherwise edit and change some available content, sometimes without the need for registration A wiki enables documents to be written very collaboratively in a simple markup language using a browser. A single page in a wiki is referred to as a "wiki page", while the entire body of pages, which are usually highly interconnected via hyperlinks, is "the wiki"; in effect, a wiki is actually a very simple, easy-to-use user-maintained database for searching or even creating information. |
| WML |
Wireless Markup Language is the syntax used to describe information to be displayed on WAP devices (such as mobile phones and PDAs). |
| WWW |
World Wide Web (or simply web for short) |