Website Development Glossary

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FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)
 

Documents that list and answer the most common questions on a partucular subject or problem area. There are hundreds of FAQs on subjects as diverse as car repair and franchise advice.

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Firewall
 

A set of related programs located at a network gateway server to protect the resources of a private network from users of other networks.

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Flash
 

Adobe Flash  is An animated graphics technology and format from Adobe. The programs, generate Flash files, which can be viewed through a Web browser plug-in (the Flash player) or multimedia applications that access the player directly. Flash files can include sound.
Flash uses the .FLA file extension for source files and .SWF extension for the Flash "movie" that is created and played. Flash files are widely used on the Web because the SWF format is very space-efficient. Flash supports vector graphics images, which scale with the application window as it is resized. Animation is choreographed using one or more sequential timelines in which actions and interactions are defined. There are also versions of the Flash Player for mobile phones and other non-PC devices.

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Forums
 

Another name for a newsgroup in which people are formed together in a group to chat and discuss.

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FTP
 

FTP or File Transfer Protocol is used to connect two computers over the Internet so that the user of one computer can transfer files and perform file commands on the other computer.


 

 
 
 
 
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