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Common Web Terms
Database
A database is an accessible warehouse of information, much like the records of an excel file. There are columns and records within those columns. When users enter information, it is stored here.
e-Commerce
The buying and selling of goods on the Internet. Certainly the most cost-effective way of doing business because it represents the lowest overhead possible: no building to rent, no products to stockpile and the lowest cost form of advertising.
Flash
When you see "flashy" websites, they are commonly built using Flash. The opposite of Flash is static sites that are created with html. A strictly flash-based site is terrible for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), so at Sivana we sometimes build hybrid sites - flash with HTML.
FTP
Stands for "File Transfer Protocall". We use FTP in order to upload your site to the Internet.
HTML
This is the universal base language for most of the websites on the World Wide Web. HTML is what search engines read through to gather information for your search results.
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