GoWide Glossary
Encryption

To convert data from its original form to a form that can only be read by someone that can reverse the encryption. The purpose of encryption is to prevent unauthorized reading of the data.

FAQ

(Frequently Asked Questions) - A list of questions that Users commonly ask. Often provided to help reduce enquiries.

Firefox

A web browser popular with web developers.

Flash

Software created to develop animations and interactivity for a website or other applications.

FTP

(File Transfer Protocol) - The transferring of files to the Internet using a FTP program. (Dreamweaver, Filezilla)

GB

Same as Gigabyte. 10GB is ten gigabytes.

GIF

(Graphics Interchange Format) A compressed format for storing images developed by CompuServe. One of themost common image formats on the Internet.

Gigabyte

1024 megabytes. Commonly rounded down to one billion bytes.

Graphics

In web terms graphics describe pictures (opposite to text).

Hits

The number of times a web object (page or picture) has been viewed or downloaded.

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