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Glossary and Acronyms
GLOSSARY
Availability Requirement The extent to which a webmaster expects to be able to guarantee the availability of their website.
Domain A 'human readable' name that identifies one or more IP addresses. Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Webpages.
Hit A recorded request for a single file sent from a host-server to a client-server.
Log-file An application recording the activity of a website in terms of the number of requests made from a host-server to a client-server.
Meta-tags Keywords or search terms contained within a websites definition document, describing the content of that document.
Page Request A series of hits that successfully retrieve the collection of files constituting a single webpage.
Server A web server is a software programme that serves webpages to clients across the Internet.
Visit A series of consecutive page requests made from a client to a server.
Website A set of resources associated with the first or base URL for that site.
ACRONYMS
ASF Appropriate Software Foundation
AWF Appropriate Website Factory
AWFML Appropriate Website Factory Mark-up Language
CSO Civil Society Organisation
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
DfID UK Department for International Development
GIF Graphics Interchange Format
HTML Hypertext Mark-up Language
INTRAC International NGO Training and Research Centre
ICTs Information and Communication Technologies
IP Internet Protocol
ISRG Internet Studies Research Group
NGO Non-Governmental Organisation
PDF Portable Document Format
RTF Rich Text Format
SDRML Social Development Research Mark-up Language
URL Uniform Resource Locator
XML Extensible Mark-up Language
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