Some Simple Web Acronym Clarification
Hello All,
today I thought it would be useful for some to simply break down some of the acronyms thrown around in the web design and web development world…
1. HTML – HyperText Markup Language – the basis of the web. HTML is the basic building block which web browsers read in order to render web pages and almost every website has at least some portion done in HTML.
2. CSS – Cascading Style Sheets – CSS is used to control design and layout of web pages. It’s useful because it allows designers to make changes to every page controlled by the css by simply editing a single file. CSS can control everything from font sizes and colors to positioning and size of elements of the entire website.
3. AJAX – Asynchronous Javascript And XML – AJAX is more of a dynamic combination of programming languages than a single language. As from the WikiPedia definition: “AJAX is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications.” AJAX is useful for websites in that it can be used to retrieve and return information from the server without having to refresh the entire web page, thereby providing a cleaner experience for the end user.
4. XML – eXtensible Markup Language – XML is used to share structured data between different systems, and is useful because the programmer can define his/her own elements. XML is a popular language for sharing data due to it’s open source (read:free) standard.
5. PHP – PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor – PHP is a server-side scripting language most often used to create dynamic content in websites.
Well, that’s all that come to mind right now…