GoWide Glossary
Page Rank

The number given to a website to show their order when appearing in a search engine results.

PayPal

An eCommerce business that provides its customers the ability to make online transactions either through their eCommerce business or to make electronic payments for other products or services.

PDF

(Portable Document Format) - A document file format developed by Adobe. It offers some features to protect the content.

Photoshop

A graphics program commonly used to edit digital photos and images.

PHP

(PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor) A technology allowing the insertion of serverexecutable scripts in web pages. Mostly for Unix, Linux and Solaris platforms.

Platform

In web terms: The computers operating system like Windows, Linux, or OS X.

PNG

(Portable Network Graphics) A format for encoding a picture pixel by pixel and sending it over the web. A W3C recommendation for replacing GIF.

POP

(Post Office Protocol) A standard communication protocol for retrieving e-mails from an e-mail server.

Redirect

In web terms: The action when a web page automatically forwards (redirects) the user to another web page.

Router

A hardware (or software) system that directs (routes) data transfer to different computers in a network.

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