Jargon

A good site for explaining web jargon is http://webopedia.internet.com/ and also http://www.whatis.com/

Nominet: The organisation responsible for maintaining the *.uk name space. It is better to purchase names from a member as it is cheaper than buying them from Nominet direct.

Parking Domain Name: Where the hosting company uses its servers to host your domain name without any other services (e.g. You have no website attached).

Email Forwarding: Where email for *@yourdomain.co.uk is redirected to your ISP account.

Url Forwarding: Where www.yourcompany.com is an alias for yourmwebsite. Their server translates www.yourcompany.com to www.yourname.ipsname.com Use a frames set so that www.yourname.ipsname.com appears as www.yourcompany.com This is cheaper than actually using a hosting company

CGI Script Access: This means that the hosting company will allow you to run your own cgi scripts.

ASP: A Microsoft web scripting language, based on Visual Basic.

Multihomed: Where a web hosting provider is connected to more than oneother internet accessprovider.

Backbone: The internet has no backbone. There is a good article on this by Pair Networks.

Registrant: The legal entity for whom a domain is registered. (Not the Hosting company)

"Fast connection/host": Hosting companies that have "fast connections"or "fast servers" are usually displaying false pretences. What matters more is the loading on those servers and connections

"Supports Front Page Extensions": These enable you to take advantage of 'advanced features' in Microsoft's Front Page authoring tool.

FTP: The File Transfer Protocol. A popular way to upload web pages and graphics to your web server.

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