PawPrint.net Glossary of Terms

A protocol developed to enable the transfer of files across a network. It provides a reletively insecure username and password  security but has been more recently enhanced to allow for SSL encryption to provide a secure password exchange.

To some extent the use of FTP has been superceeded by SFTP (a component of SSH) or the secure file transfer protocol.

RAM is a type of computer storage whose contents can be accessed in any order. This is in contrast to sequential memory devices such as magnetic tapes, discs and drums, in which the mechanical movement of the storage medium forces the computer to access data in a fixed order. It is usually implied that RAM can be both written to and read from, in contrast to read-only memory or ROM.

Computers use RAM to hold the program code and data during execution. In the first electronic computers, RAM wa...

Hypertext Markup Language is the Markup-Language that evolved as the basis for layout of web-pages. It is a derivitive of the first SGML languages and has since been superceeded by derivitives of XML refertred to as XHTML.

A set of rules used to define how email should be sent and governing communication between mail servers to achieve this end.

A lens defect that bends light rays of different colors at different angles and therefore focuses them on different planes.

This is common with low-end digital cameras and small consumer point-and-shoot models.

The process of altering web pages to correct errors and add strategically placed keywords with the goal of achieving better placement in the search engines.

PawPrint believes that this is an intrinsic part of authoring any web site and despite the claims of many companies that specialize in SEO only, should not be necessary if the page was designed correctly from the outset.