Glossary of Internet, Web and Related Terminology: A - F
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- Adobe
- Adobe is the company that makes several of the software applications used by professional web designers, and developers as well as print and graphics professionals. See also: Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Flash, Adobe Photoshop.
- Adobe Dreamweaver
- Adobe Dreamweaver is a tool used by professional web designers and developers. Dreamweaver supports a variety of coding languages, which include but are not limited to, XHTML(often called HTML but there is a difference), CSS, JavaScript, PHP, ASP, and ASP.NET.
- Browser, Web Browser
- This is the tool or application software used for viewing web pages. Some popular web browsers are Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Mozilla FireFox, Netscape, and Opera (this may be more familiar to Mac users). In order to view web pages you must use a web browser.
- Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
- Cascading style sheets (CSS) are used to hold the instructions for how to style the web pages. HTML, or XHTML is made up of tags that hold content, and the CSS is used to describe how the content is to be displayed. The phrase Cascading Style Sheets refers to the fact that these styles can exist, in-line with the content, at the top of the document or in a separate file that is linked into the html file. Read more about HTML/XHTML.
- Content Management Systems (CMS)
- A Content Management System typically stores the content (or references to the content) in a database separate from the presentation/appearance. A combination of CSS, Server-side and client side code, or sofware, is used to present the content. This also allows for personalized content for the users.