Glossary of Terms

In an effort to provide our clients with a better understanding of the more commonly used Internet terminology, we have created this Glossary of Internet Terms, Abbreviations and Acronyms.

 

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FAQ  ::   An acronym for Frequently Asked Questions. FAQs are a collection of online documents that list questions and answer on a particular subject.

Fast  ::   The company that owned AllTheWeb.com

FFA  ::   Free For All (FFA link pages)
Filter Words  ::   Words such as is, am, were, was, the, for, do, that search engines deem irrelevant for indexing purposes.

Filtering  ::   An automatic method of screening e-mail messages as they are downloaded from the Internet. An e-mail client can be instructed to deposit (file or trash) qualifying e-mail messages in various folders as they are received. A filter can look at keywords, addresses, domains, subject matter, size, etc.

Finger  ::   An Internet tool used to locate people on other Internet sites.

Firewall  ::   A piece of security software designed to protect Web servers. They are typically used to protect sites from hacker attacks/unauthorized access. A firewall is a combination hardware and software buffer that many companies put in place between their internal networks and the Internet. A firewall allows only specific kinds of messages from the Internet to flow in and out of the internal network. This protects the internal network from intruders and/or prevents hackers from breaking into the systems.

Fireworks  ::   A web graphics program from Macromedia, designed to be used in conjunction with Dreamweaver.

Flame  ::   To post an e-mail message intended to insult and provoke.

Flash  ::   A popular piece of animation software developed by Macromedia. Flash is widely used on the Web because it requires little bandwidth, therefore making it friendly to users with low or high-speed connections.

FrontPage  ::   A popular site design and management tool developed by Microsoft.

Form  ::   A formatted document containing blank fields that users can fill in with data. The data is then sent directly to a forms processing application, which enters the information into a database.

Frame Relay  ::   A communications interface that provides high-speed packet transmission with minimum delay and efficient use of bandwidth. It assumes that all connections are reliable and does not have error detection or control which helps to speed up the protocol.

Frames  ::   An HTML technique which enable a Web designer to break the main window of the browser into seperate panes or frames that can all be controlled seperately by the web designer. Although frames can be very useful for holding menus and controls, they can also be very confusing for search engines, and may not be indexed correctly.

Freeware  ::   Software that is available for download and unlimited use without charge. Compare to shareware.

Freshbot  ::   This is the name for the Google crawlers that are known to add pages to the Google index more promptly than others.

FTP  ::   File Transfer Protocol. One of the common methods of transferring files over the Internet. A typical method used for uploading files (pages) to a hosting server for viewing on the Internet.

FTP Account  ::   File Transfer Protocol. FTP is the most popular way of uploading files from one computer to another. With the FTP account you will login to our server and be able to copy files from your local hard drive to our server so you can view those files from the web.

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