GoWide Glossary
Validation

The process of checking that the code used to structure a website conforms to standards.

Visitor

In web terms: A visitor of a web site. Commonly used to describe a person visiting (viewing) a web site.

W3C

World Wide Web Consortium) The organization responsible for managing standards for the WWW.

Web Address

Same as domain name or URL.

Web Administrator

A person registered to make changes to your domain name information.

Web Hosting

A service to provide a server, permanently connected to the internet, from which a web site operates.

Web Site

A collection of related web pages belonging to a company or an individual.

Web Spider

A computer program that searches the Internet for web pages. Common web spiders are the one used by search engines like Google and AltaVista to index the web. Web spiders are also called web robots or wanderers.

Web standards

In an ideal world, a web page that adhered to the Web Standards would look the same on any browser. The world appears to be slightly less than ideal at this time.

Webmaster

The person in charge of a web site.

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