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WHACK GLOSSARY

 

ActionScript

  • A programming language for scripting Adobe Flash movies and applications.

Blog

  • A web-based publication consisting of periodic contributions, often in reverse chronological order.

CMS

  • Content Management System - This allows the client to update their website at will.

CSS

  • Cascading Style Sheets are a standard mechanism for controling the design of an HTML page.

Flash

  • A technology platform for creating and delivering web multimedia and rich Internet applications.

HTML

  • (HyperText Markup Language) A markup language designed for the creation of web pages with hypertext and other information to be displayed in a web browser.

JavaScript

  • A scripting programming language best known for its use in web sites, although it is also used to enable scripting access to objects embedded in other applications.

JPEG

  • (Joint Photographic Experts Group) A commonly used standard method of lossy compression used for digital images. JPEG is the standard image format used in the Brightcove service for thumbnails, video stills, and background images).

Logo

  • A proprietary graphic that symbolically represents a company's brand

PayPal

  • PayPal (a subsidiary of eBay) is a payment processing service for online vendors

RSS feed

  • Really Simple Syndication is a popular technology for notifying users of updates to content in a web site, blog, or Internet TV channel

Search engine

  • A program, such as Google, designed to help find information on the web.

SEO

  • Search Engine Optimization - Process in in which the site is optimized and prepped to be found in search engines

SWF (Small Web Format) file

  • SWF is a compressed and uneditable vector graphics format used in Flash applications

Thumbnail

  • An small image associated with a video Title used in listings for the Title in Players, websites, and video search engines
URL
  • A Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is a way to identify a resource and its location on the Internet (e.g. http://www.whackdesign.com).
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