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Utility Computing

In a utility model, resources such as storage, bandwidth and computer processing time are charged for based upon how much you actually use over a given time period....full definition »

Adobe AIR

The Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is an interesting development that enables web designers and developers to use the technologies used to build web sites - HTML, Javascript, Flash - to build applications that are used on the desktop....full definition »

Blogstorm

A blogstorm is a word used to describe a large and sudden influx of visitors to your web site caused by bloggers writing about your website and putting links to your web site in articles on their blog....full definition »

Direct Traffic

When a visitor to a web site types the name of a web site directly into the address bar of their browser, they arrive at site they have requested. This is called Direct Traffic. Web sites of well known companies with strong brands usually receive more direct traffic than other web sites....full definition »

Referral

All types of traffic to a web site are identified by where the visitor was before they arrived at your web site. When a person clicks on a link on a web site and arrives at another web site this is called a referral....full definition »

Organic Search

All types of traffic to a web site are identified by where the visitor was before they arrived at your web site. The term Organic Search means the visits to your web site that have come from a search engines....full definition »

Body Tag

Body is an HTML tag. Web pages are created by placing the text of the page between special tags show their signifigance....full definition »

Favicon

Favicons are small icons that appear in the address bar of a web browser and are specific to a particular web site. Not all web sites have a favicon, but every web site can have a favicon....full definition »

Server Virtualisation

Modern server computers are so powerful nowadays that they generally have a large degree of spare computing power....full definition »

Blade Server

Blade servers are a type of computer used in web hosting data centres as a means of:...full definition »

YAML

YAML stands for "Yet Another Multicolumn Layout" and is a XHTML and CSS framework for rapidly creating standards based web sites....full definition »

Article Marketing

There is a wealth of free content available on the web and the most common form is article marketing....full definition »

Data Portability

Data are considerd to be portable if they can be moved from one system to another. In order to do this standards have to be defined for particular types of data....full definition »

Image Replacement Techniques

Image replacement techniques are used by web designers to add visual appeal to a web site while maintaining information that is important for search engines and people using a screen reader....full definition »

Blogosphere

The blogosphere is the entire collection of blogs. The term implies that all blogs, bloggers and the inter connections between them exist as a distinct part of the world wide web....full definition »