Glossary

CompactFlash  CompactFlash (I/II) are standards for very small cards that are used with devices such as PDAs, digital cameras, MP3 players, printers and laptops.  The most common type of card is a solid state memory card.  These small cards can be used in your camera to save digital pictures and then put into a PDA to view or a printer to print. Other types of cards include modem, network, GPS and wireless cards.

Flash  Macromedia Flash is a graphics programming language that lets web developers provide interactive and multimedia-rich presentations on their web sites.  It has powerful audio, video and application features.  (more info)

HTML  Stands for Hyper-text Markup Language.  It's the most common language used to format text and images into web pages.  There are other variants such as XML and SHTML that add other functionality but most web sites continue to be written in HTML. Denoted by an .htm or .html extension on files.  

Intranet  An intranet is a web site that is hosted and presented within a corporate or business network.  It is usually not accessible from outside of the network such as from the World Wide Web.  It is used to presents news and information to company employees on that network.

Java  A programming language developed by Sun Microsystems that is designed to run on any platform of computer.  By running Java applications through a web browser, a web designer only has to create the program once and people can run it on a Windows PC, a Mac, a Linux machine or other Unix computers.  Java is used for many multimedia or interactive applications.  (more info)

JavaScript  A scripting language that runs in your web browser and is based on the Java programming language.  JavaScript is the most common scripting language on the internet and allows your web browser to run code embedded in the web page and perform actions without downloading a separate application.  The switching tabs on mouseover on the main page are examples of JavaScript functions.

System Administrator  A System Administrator (sysadmin) and a Network Administrator are usually referred to interchangeably.  A System Administrator may have global control over several Network Administrators on a large network.  The Administrator's job is to oversee all of the network and make sure it is running smoothly and is secure.  

VBScript  A scripting language that runs in your web browser and is based on Microsoft Visual Basic.  Like JavaScript, VBScript uses a subset of a larger programming language to allow functions to be embedded in a web page and run within a web browser instead of requiring separate applications to be downloaded.  VBScript is capable of doing more than JavaScript and because it's based on VB (Visual Basic) it's easier for most people to learn if they already have previous experience building macros in MS Excel and MS Word.  (more info)