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W3C / World Wide Web Consortium
The W3C is a non-profit organization founded in Oct 1994 to help
develop Web-based standards. Headed by the Web's founder Tim
Berners-Lee, the organization's site (http://www.w3c.org) contains
the complete specifications for most approved and proposed Web
standards and markup languages.
WAIS / Wide Area Information Server
WAIS is a program that can index enormous amounts of information and
can make the index searchable across network (including the
Internet). WAIS will also rank the information found by searches by
relevance. If that isn't enough, the search can be narrowed down
even more by subsequent searches on the results found by the
previous search.
WAN / Wide Area Network
A WAN is similar to a LAN, but it is much bigger. Unlike LANs, WANs
are not limited to a single location. Many wide area networks span
long distances via telephone lines, fiber-optic cables, or stellite
links. They can also be composed of smaller LANs that are
interconnected. The Internet could be described as the biggest WAN
in the world.
WAP / Wireless Application Protocol
A set of specifications that describes how portable wireless devices
such as phones and PDAs should access the Internet and communicate
with each other.
WAP Gateway
A bridge between two distinct network, the Internet and the wireless
phone/data network.
Wap Hosting
Hosting services that allow customers to access the website via a
WAP-enabled device.
Warez
Pirated software, generally distributed on Usenet. The warez
(pronounces wares) movement perfectly exemplifies the difficulties
of regulating Internet activity.
Wav
An audio file format developed for the Microsoft Windows platform.
Files have the .wav file extension.
WDM / Wavelength Division Multiplexing
A technology that uses optical signals on different wavelengths to
increase the capacity of fiber optic networks in order to handle a
number of services simultaneously.(see Multiplexing)
Web Farm
On the Internet, a Web server farm, or simply Web farm, may refer to
a Web site that uses two or more servers to handle user requests.
Typically, serving user requests for the files (pages) of a Web site
can be handled by a single server. However, larger Web sites may
require multiple servers. Web farm is a term that is also simply
used to mean a business that performs Web site hosting on multiple
servers. Some Web farms allow you to put your own server on their
site, a service known as colocation. (see Server Farm)
Web Hosting
Hosting, also known as Web site hosting or Web hosting is the
business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more
Web sites on web servers at very fast Internet connection.
Web Ring
A Web ring is a way of interlinking related Web sites so that people
can visit one site after another, eventually returning to the first
Web site. Most Web rings allow people to browse backwards or
forwards through the sites in the ring, or see all the sites in the
ring and visit whichever one they choose.
Web Server
A program that serves up Web pages upon request. Every computer on
the Internet that contains a Web site must have a Web server
program.
Web-Based Email
Web-Based Email allows you to read email anywhere in the world from
any PC that has an Internet connection.
Webcam
A camera hooked up to World Wide Web showing regularly updated
pictures of the subject in focus.
Webcast
An audio or video broadcast on the Web, usually of an event such as
a concert, an interview or a sports fixture.
Weblog
A Web-based diary of pithy commentary from users, generally focused
on a specific subject area.
Webmaster
Someone who builds, manages or administers a website.
Website
A virtual location on the World Wide Web, identified by a Web
address such as www.Research-Hosting.co.uk.
Webtone
Broadly, a Utopian Web equivalent of dialtone: continuous, reliable,
round-the-clock access to the Internet.
WebTV
A service incorporating access to both television and the Internet.
WHOIS
This is an Internet service that finds information about a domain
name or IP address. If you enter a domain name in a WHOIS search
engine, it will scour a huge database of domains and return
information about the one you entered. This information typically
contains the name, address, and phone number of the administrative
and technical contacts of the domain name. WHOIS can also be used to
simply check if a certain domain name is available or if it has
already been registered.
WINDOWS 2000
Windows 2000 was originally designed to replace and unify the many
current versions of Microsoft's operating system into a single
product that will run on desktops, servers and many other smaller
devices.
WML / Wireless Markup Language
Which allows text-base Web information to be displayed on wireless
devices such as mobile phones and PDAs.
WMLScript
The WAP version of JavaScript.
WRT
Net shorthand for With Respect To. Ex: "WRT to your request, I don't
know anything about pie-charts. Ask Roy."
WWW / World Wide Web
A network of documents and recources linked to one another and
viewable in a user-friendly, point-and-click HyperText environment.
The Web uses its own protocol on the Net, HTTP, the "Hypertext
Transport Protocol," for transferring files from a Web server to a
local user's computer and Web client program (like Netscape
Navigator or Mosaic, also known as Web "browsers"). Since the Web
concept includes backward compatibility with earlier Internet
protocols like FTP and Gopher, any Web client program now provides
the easiest and most advanced way to use the whole Internet. With
the Web interface provided by the client program, retrieving
information on the Net is done via hypertext or hypermedia links,
rather than by making choices on hierarchical menus or by typing
commands at a system prompt. The Web enables users to access
information in all kinds of formats and file types (text, image,
graphics, sound, and video) through one user interface or "front
end."
WYSIWYG
("wizz-ee-wig") Computer shorthand for What You See Is What You Get,
meaning that printouts will be identical to monitor output.
Hosting Tips
Ask your host to pay for your domain name.
If you want to host a NEW domain name, you can request
the hosting company to pay your domain name for you. The
cost of domain registration and renewal is about £6 per
year.Minimize your website expenses
If you are unusual about hosting and if you are still in the
development and testing stage of your website, go for cheap
hosting service. You save money by minimizing your website
expenses on the initial stage, and once your site is ready
for public to view, you can always decide to stay or move to
another host. Always choose to host with reliable hosts that
offer responsive technical support.
Read user reviews and hosting news
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search for another host, always start your search by reading
user reviews and hosting news. This is simply because
hosting companies that are always in the news are always
innovating to provide better, cheaper, faster, newer or more
efficient hosting services in the current marketplace. User
review are comments provided by the people who have used and
experienced their hosting services. Read users reviews to
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