Glossary

1. Accessible

In website terms, this term refers to ensuring that the website meets a chosen requirement. This can be anything from incorporating screen readers on the site, down to making available alternative content to plug-ins or allowing form fields to be accessed by the keyboard. In general, Kaweb work to W3C XHTML Strict (http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/) guidelines.

2. Content Management System

These are generally online applications that provide the functionality in order to edit the content of websites and other resources.

3. CSS

Acronym for Cascading Style Sheets. This is the coding method by which a website's content is controlled in terms of positioning and it's graphical attributes. Find out more here.

4. Ecommerce

The buying and selling of goods/services over the internet and other computer networks.

5. HTML Email

This is an email formatted using HTML, which is the coding used to create a website. It therefore allows for greater use of imagery and graphics etc. in the email which means the emails look more designed and can have more effective calls to actions.

6. Search Engine Optimisation

The method by which a website is enhanced in order to rank higher on pre-defined search engines.

7. SEO

Acronym for Search Engine Optimisation.

8. Website Hosting

This varies widely, but is basically the provision of a computer network where a website or online system resides so that other users can view it's content.

9. XHTML

XHTML is s stricter, cleaner version of HTML, intended to replace the HTML 4.01 standard. It stands for eXtensible HyperText Markup Language, and is an application of XML. See http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ or http://www.xhtml.org/ .