Hi, I’m Rick and welcome to Help Me with my Web Site, Internet Jargon, part 2.

If you haven’t seen our previous episode, Internet jargon part 1, you might want to do that first.

Again, don’t be afraid of jargon. Our objective here is just let you intelligently use these words in a sentence.

This time, we’ll get into a little more deeply into internet jargon. However, if we cover too much jargon up front, we’ll need to pour coffee down your throat. So, we’ll cover the basics here and define further jargon as we need it.

Jargon surrounding a web page:

HTML - Hypertext markup language - the code that displays your web site.

CSS - Cascading Style Sheets - code that you can share across multiple pages to control how all pages look.

Hyperlink - Those things you find on a page that you click on and go somewhere else.

Programming languages: Java, Jquery, Javascript, php, python - programming languages that can make web pages more intelligent and do more things.

Graphic formats - JPEG, GIF, PNG, etc - File formats for graphic files. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.

Video - Flash, Windows Media, Quicktime - File formats to display video. Right now, Flash is most popular on the web because most computers already have Flash installed.

Domain names and IP addresses. Our domain name is monarchdigital.com. You type that into your browser to find us. The web has a series of directories out there that translates our domain name into an IP (Internet Protocol) address that it can actually use to find us. For example, Google’s IP address right now is 74.125.127.100. Isn’t it easier just to remember “Google”?

URL - Uniform Resource Locator - Huh? It’s the address of the web page you’re at. For example, http://www.monarchdigital.com/portfolio/web goes directly to our web portfolio page.

Are you comatose yet? That’s enough jargon. Next, we’re going to go into the Web Development series that covers the alternatives for developing a web site.