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Bandwidth:
How much stuff you can send through a connection. Usually
measured in bits-per-second. A full page of English text is
about 16,000 bits. A fast modem can move about 57,000 bits in
one second. Full-motion full-screen video would require roughly
10,000,000 bits-per-second, depending on compression.
BBS --
(Bulletin Board System):
A computerized meeting
and announcement system that allows people to carry on discussions,
upload and download files, and make announcements without the
people being connected to the computer at the same time. In
the early 1990's there were many thousands (millions?) of BBS?s
around the world, most are very small, running on a single IBM
clone PC with 1 or 2 phone lines. Some are very large and the
line between a BBS and a system like AOL gets crossed at some
point, but it is not clearly drawn.
BPS --
(Bits-Per-Second):
A measurement of how fast data is moved from one place to another.
A 56K modem can move about 57,000 bits per second.
CGI --
(Common Gateway Interface):
A set of rules that describe how a Web Server communicates
with another piece of software on the same machine, and how
the other piece of software (the ?CGI program?) talks to the
web server. Any piece of software can be a CGI program if it
handles input and output according to the CGI standard.
Domain
Name:
The unique name that identifies an Internet site. Domain Names
always have 2 or more parts, separated by dots. The part on
the left is the most specific, and the part on the right is
the most general. A given machine may have more than one Domain
Name but a given Domain Name points to only one machine. For
example, the domain names: matisse.net mail.matisse.net workshop.matisse.net
can all refer to the same machine, but each domain name can
refer to no more than one machine. Usually, all of the machines
on a given Network will have the same thing as the right-hand
portion of their Domain Names (matisse.net in the examples above).
It is also possible for a Domain Name to exist but not be connected
to an actual machine. This is often done so that a group or
business can have an Internet e-mail address without having
to establish a real Internet site. In these cases, some real
Internet machine must handle the mail on behalf of the listed
Domain Name.
Ethernet:
A very common method of networking computers in a LAN. There
is more than one type of Ethernet. By 2001 the standard type
was "100-BaseT" which can handle up to about 100,000,000 bits-per-second
and can be used with almost any kind of computer.
Extranet:
An intranet that is accesible to computers that are
not hysically part of a companys' own private network, but that
is not accessible to the general public, for example to allow
vendors and business partners to access a company web site.
Often an intranet will make use of a Virtual Private Network.
(VPN.)
Fire
Wall :
A combination of hardware and software that separates a Network
into two or more parts for security purposes.
FTP --
(File Transfer Protocol) :
A very common method of moving files between two Internet
sites. FTP is a way to login to another Internet site for the
purposes of retrieving and/or sending files. There are many
Internet sites that have established publicly accessible repositories
of material that can be obtained using FTP, by logging in using
the account name "anonymous", thus these sites are called "anonymous
ftp servers". FTP was invented and in wide use long before the
advent of the World Wide Web and originally was always used
from a text-only interface.
Home
Page (or Homepage) :
Several meanings. Originally, the web page that your
browser is set to use when it starts up. The more common meaning
refers to the main web page for a business, organization, person
or simply the main page out of a collection of web pages, e.g.
?Check out so-and-so?s new Home Page.?
HTML --
(HyperText Markup Language) :
The coding language used to create Hypertext documents for use
on the World Wide Web. HTML looks a lot like old-fashioned typesetting
code, where you surround a block of text with codes that indicate
how it should appear. The "hyper" in Hypertext comes from the
fact that in HTML you can specify that a block of text, or an
image, is linked to another file on the Internet. HTML files
are meant to be viewed using a "Web Browser". HTML is loosely
based on a more comprehensive system for markup called SGML.
IP Number
-- (Internet Protocol Number):
Sometimes called a dotted quad. A unique number consisting of
4 parts separated by dots, e.g. 165.113.245.2 Every machine
that is on the Internet has a unique IP number - if a machine
does not have an IP number, it is not really on the Internet.
Many machines (especially servers) also have one or more Domain
Names that are easier for people to remember.
World
Wide Web:
A full-color, multimedia database of information on the Internet.
Like the name implies the World Wide Web is a universal mass
of web pages connected together through links. Theoretically,
if you clicked on every link on every web page you would eventually
visit every corner of the world without ever leaving your computer
chair. Of course you would also have to live until you were
about a million years old and computers were antiquated technology.
Surfing:
The process of "looking around" the Internet. You're doing it
now.
Domain:
The Internet is divided into smaller sets known as domains,
including .com (business), .gov (government), .edu (educational)
and others.
Domain
Name:
Allows you to
reference Internet sites without knowing the true numerical
address.
Download:
The process of copying data file(s) from a remote computer
to a local computer. The opposite action is upload
Online:
When you connect to the Internet, you are online.
Online
Services :
Services such as America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy and the
Microsoft Network which provide content to subscribers and usually
connections to the Internet, though sometimes limited. For instance,
online services just recently
Search
Engine:
A tool for searching information on the Internet by
topic. Popular engines include InfoSeek, Inktomi and Web Crawler.
added Web browsing ability. If you spend a lot of time on the
Internet, the fees these services charge add up rapidly. where
a local file is copied to a server.
Server:
One half of the client-server protocol, runs on a networked
computer and responds to requests submitted by the client. Your
World Wide Web brower is a client of a World Wide Web server.
ZIP:
A compressed file format (.zip). Many files available on the
Internet are compressed or zipped in order to reduce storage
space and transfer times. To uncompress the file, you need a
utility like PKZip (DOS) or WinZip (Windows).
Thumbnail
:
A small graphic image which gives you enough information to
decide if you want to see it full-sized. Many galleries of images
on web-sites have the images in thumbnail, rather than making
you download each large image one at a time. Many usenet posters,
who post collections of images, will also post an index of thumbnailed
images, which then allows you to choose which of the other images
to download.
Website:
A Web site is a related collection of World Wide Web (WWW) files
that includes a beginning file called a home page. For example,
the Web site for IBM has the home page address of http://www.ibm.com.
(The home page address actually includes a specific file name
like index.html but, as in IBM's case, when a standard default
name is set up, users don't have to enter the file name.) IBM's
home page address leads to thousands of pages. (But a Web site
can also be just a few pages.)
Webhosting:
Hosting (also known as Web site hosting, Web hosting, and Webhosting)
is the business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for
one or more Web sites. More important than the computer space
that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to
the Internet.
Virtual
Hosting:
On the Internet, virtual hosting is the provision of Web server
hosting services so that a company (or individual) doesn't have
to purchase and maintain its own Web server and connections
to the Internet. A virtual hosting provider is sometimes called
a Web or Internet "space provider."
Dedicated
hosting:
Dedicated hosting is the provision of a dedicated server
machine that is dedicated to the traffic to your Web site. Only
very busy sites require dedicated hosting.
Colocation:
Colocation (sometimes spelled "co-location" or "collocation")
is the provision of space for a customer's telecommunications
equipment on the service provider's premises. For example, a
Web site owner could place the site's own computer servers on
the premises of the Internet service provider (ISP). Or an ISP
could place its network routers on the premises of the company
offering switching services with other ISPs. The alternative
to colocation is to have the equipment and the demarc located
at the customer's premises.
E-commerce:
The term e-Commerce comes from electronic commerce. It means
buying and selling products on the World Wide Web. In most cases,
people use the term e-commerce whenever an exchange of money-for-goods
is taking place online. That is, a buyer gives a credit or debit
card number to a seller and authorizes the seller to take the
appropriate funds. The entire exchange takes place electronically.
Also called e-Business.
Difference
between a Web site and an online store:
An online store is a Web site that offers products for sale.
Some online stores give buyers a way to purchase goods electronically
by entering a credit or debit card number. Other online stores
allow buyers to order products over the Web but receive payment
in more traditional ways, such as personal checks or phoned-in
credit card numbers. Some online stores are huge enterprises
with millions of items, like Amazon.com. Others are as small
as the corner candy shop.
Difference
between an online store, a virtual store, a Web store, a virtual
storefront, and an online business:
There is no difference. These are different terms for
the same thing: a Web site that offers products for sale.
Credit
Card Transactions:
When a customer orders a product and enters a credit card number,
a service called a credit card processor verifies the credit
card information for you, and electronically transfers funds
to your account. HyperMart has teamed with Authorize.Net to
set up a complete commerce solution available for HyperMart
members. The HyperMart-Authorize.Net solution includes a payment
gateway and a merchant account, if you need one.
Type
Of Credit Cards Accepted:
Your store can accept Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American
Express.
Bank Account
Type:
You need a merchant account. If you already own a business,
you may already have a merchant account. Check with your bank
to ensure that the account is set up to handle electronic credits
and debits.
Bank
credit cards Details:Only if the bank where you have
your merchant account uses a United States-based credit card
processor. Check with your bank for more information.
Products
to sell:
That depends on the type of store you decide to build.
You can have one product or as many as 1000.
Division
Of Products to categories:
Yes. You can add
departments to your store to group similar products together.
Departments make it easier for customers to find what they want.
You can have as many departments as you want. You can even add
sub-departments to divide products into smaller groups.
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