Animation is the rapid display of a series of images of 2-D or 3-D artwork or model positions in order to simulate an illusion of movement.

A blog is a contraction of the words ‘web log’ and refers to a website which contain short frequent updates similar to a web journal. Blogs are used as part of the social networking aspects of web marketing. This creates the possibility of users of the website helping to build useful content.

Content consists of all of the unique page items that are typically inserted into a web page design. This could typically consist of textual, graphical, audio & video types of information.

A Content Management System or CMS is a system which enables non-technical persons to maintain a website content. By providing a user friendly interface to the maintenance task the minimal skill level of the web master is significantly reduced.

A database is an organized collection of related entities of information consolidated into a common pool that provides data access & storage for one or more multiple uses.

Every website is identified by one or more internet addresses. The domain name is the unique text name given to identify a website. e.g. www.i-atomic.com is our domain name.

Electronic commerce, commonly known as e-commerce or eCommerce, has the modern day usage of describing any type business transactions executed via the internet.

Encryption by web sites is commonly used to protect sensitive information during storage or while in transit from an end-user to the web servers where the information would be stored. e.g. credit card information is encrypted to protect it from identity theft.

Flash is a multimedia platform developed by Adobe Systems that is popular for adding animation and interactivity to web pages & to develop rich Internet applications.

A home page is the first page or “door to the store” of a given website.

Hosting a web site allows an individual or organization to make available via the internet various forms of content and services to users.

A website is interactive when it is capable of supporting a dynamic system of accepting & responding to human users. This style of website interactivity is commonly referred to as the feel of a website.

PageRank is a term used by search engines such as Google’s, Bing etc. PageRank is an indication of the relevance of a webpage to the users search criteria.

A web search engine is designed to supports users searching for information on the World Wide Web. . The search engine results provide the user with a list of websites containing relevant information matching the user search phrases.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and associated coding to both increase its relevance to specific search phrases and to remove barriers to the discovery of the website content by search engines.

Shopping cart is software used in e-commerce websites to provide on-line shoppers with a virtual shopping cart. The shopping cart supports the operations needed to place items in a cart & proceed through a checkout process used for ordering of the purchased items.

Templates are used by websites to give a sense of consistency across all of its web pages. Thus templates create web pages which have a consistent look and feel. Where look implies the graphic presentation of the site & feel the style of interaction.

Usability refers to the user friendliness of a given website. Usability is a term used to describe the ease with which people can use a website in order to achieve a particular goal.