Mayecreate Design » Terminology

FTP Program

mayecreate — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:19:54 +0000

An FTP program is a gateway to a hosting space. It allows the user to login and upload, download or make other changes to the contents of a hosting space which may include a variety of file types and folders. It allows a user to edit their website.

A hosting space (most of the time) is a designated folder on a server that holds all the HTML files, CSS stylesheet(s), images and anything else that is accessible online. To view the contents of a hosting space a URL and web browser is needed.

Someone can open a web browser (ie: Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, etc.) and type in a URL (ie: www.mayecreate.com) into the address bar. The web browser can then open an HTML or other coded file to view its content (this is the simple explanation for what happens).

Someone could also view specific images or files by knowing the correct URL, as determined by the location of the item within the hosting space.

In summary: An FTP program is a gateway to a hosting space. It allows the user to login and upload, download or make other changes to the contents of a hosting space which may include a variety of file types and folders. It allows a user to edit their website.

Trackbacks and Pingbacks

mayecreate — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:53:04 +0000

Your vocab lesson for the day:

Trackback
A trackback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Serendipity, WordPress, CuteNewsRU, Movable Type, Typo, Telligent Community, Kentico CMS and Drupal (via contrib modules), support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of linkback.

Pingback
A pingback is one of three types of linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking to, or referring to their articles. Some weblog software, such as Movable Type, Serendipity, WordPress and Telligent Community, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published.

Essentially, a pingback is an XML-RPC request (not to be confused with an ICMP ping) sent from Site A to Site B, when an author of the blog at Site A writes a post that links to Site B. However, it also requires a hyperlink. When Site B receives the notification signal, it automatically goes back to Site A checking for the existence of a live incoming link. If that link exists, the pingback is recorded successfully. This makes pingbacks less prone to spam than trackbacks. Pingback-enabled resources must either use an X-Pingback header or contain a element to the XML-RPC script.

What do you do when you get one of these on your blog?

Decide if they’re valid or not, if they are then approve them, if not then click the SPAM link.

Webcast

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:49:00 +0000

A web-based presentation that only allows data transmission one way and does not allow interaction between the presenter and the audience.

Webinar

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:47:05 +0000

Short for Web-based seminar, a presentation, workshop or seminar that is transmitted over the internet. The presentation is interactive in that the speaker and audience can share information back and forth through voice or on-line chat features.

VoIP – Voice Over Internet Protocol.

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:45:23 +0000

This is the ability of making phone calls using your internet connection, thereby eliminating telephone charges. The quality of your call is as good as the quality and reliability of your internet connection. This is how products and services like Skype™ and magicJack work. Not recommended when participating in a virtual event, especially if you are a presenter.

RSS Feed

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:44:11 +0000

A method of syndicating web content for easy distribution (articles, blog entries, podcasts). A website owner who wants their content to be distributed to other sites will register with a RSS publisher.

Podcast

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:43:11 +0000

A Podcast is a recording of a non-music audio broadcast (e.g. news, sports, presentations, discussions, etc.) in MP3 format. Listeners can playback podcasts on a PC or digital music player.

Open source software

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:41:53 +0000

software available to the public on the internet at no cost, and the source code is available for anyone to study, use or modify.

MP3

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:40:55 +0000

MP3 stands for MPEG Audio Layer 3, which refers to an audio technology that compresses CD-quality sound while retaining most of the original sound characteristics. Listeners can playback MP3 files on a PC, using media player software, or on a digital music player (like an iPod).

Web analytics

mayecreate — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:38:00 +0000

The measurement, collection, analysis and reporting of internet data for purposes of understanding and optimizing web usage. It reports information such as how many visitors, what browser they used to access the site, how long they stay on the site, how many times each link is clicked, what keywords were used to find the site using a search engine, which search engines are used to find the site, etc. A common analytics tool is Google Analytics.