WEB DESIGN
HTML - Hypertext markup language is the basic structure in the production of web pages. It involves the use of 'tags' and is not much different to the early days of word processing.
Dynamic HTML - Refers to Web content that changes each time it is viewed. For example, the same URL could result in a different page depending on any number of parameters, such as:
Geographic location of the reader
Time of day
Previous pages viewed by the reader
Profile of the reader
There are many technologies for producing dynamic HTML, including cookie, Java, and JavaScript.
JavaScript - A scripting language developed by Netscape to enable Web authors to design interactive sites. Javascript can interact with HTML source code, enabling Web authors to spice up their sites with dynamic content. JavaScript is endorsed by a number of software companies and is an open language that anyone can use without purchasing a license.
Graphics - The creation and integration of professional graphics into website design.
VRML - Pronounced "ver-mal", and is short for Virtual Reality Modeling Language, VRML is a specification for displaying 3-dimensional objects on the World Wide Web. You can think of it as the 3-D equivalent of HTML. VRML produces a hyperspace (or a world), a 3-dimensional space that appears on your display screen. And you can figuratively move within this space. That is, as you press keys to turn left, right, up or down, or go forwards or backwards, the images on your screen will change to give the impression that you are moving through a real space.
DATABASING
Forums - An online discussion group. Online services and bulletin board services (BBS's) provide a variety of forums, in which participants with common interests can exchange open messages. Forums are sometimes called newsgroups (in the Internet world) or conferences.
Portals - A Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as e-mail, forums, search engines, and on-line shopping malls. The first Web portals were online services, such as AOL, that provided access to the Web, but by now most of the traditional search engines have transformed themselves into Web portals to attract and keep a larger audience.
"Add, Edit, Delete" Functions - Allows a user to maintain their own website content through an administrative interface without having to learn html programming.
Ad Servers/Banners - The creation of ad banners which allow companies to target a specific audience on the world's best-known sites. This draws traffic to the advertiser's site.
Real Estate/MLS Services - Websites designed to allow realters and appraisers to enter and maintain properties from an online catalog listing.
Real-time PDF file generation - Short for Portable Document Format, a file format developed by Adobe Systems. PDF captures formatting information from a variety of desktop publishing applications, making it possible to send formatted documents and have them appear on the recipient's monitor or printer as they were intended.
Dynamic graphics manipulation - The ability to create PDF on the fly based on user input. For example the creation of a logo from an Internet website.