Bit - Short for "binary digit". A bit is a single digit number in base-2, or in other words, either a 0 or a 1. bps - Abbreviation for "bits per second". It is a measure of bandwidth. For example, a 28.8 modem can transfer 28,800 bits per second.
Browser - A client software program which allows the user to view and navigate through web sites, and download or upload files. The most commonly used browsers are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Firefox, Mozilla, and Opera.
Byte - A set of bits (normally 8, but sometimes more) that represent data, such as a single text character.
Catch-all Email Account - An email account which allows any email of the form, anything@your-domain.com, to be forwarded or placed into a single email address. For example, webmaster@you.com, info@you.com and anything@you.com, will all be sent to the same email address. Often hosts allow you to also specify particular email addresses to be forwarded to different email addresses, in addition to the catch-all email which sends any other email address to one designated email address.
CGI - Abbreviation for "Common Gateway Interface". This is an interface standard which provides a method of executing a server-side program (script) from a web site to generate a web page with dynamic content. Scripts conforming to this standard may be written in any programming language that produces an executable file, but are most often written in Perl, Python, C, C++, or TCL.
CNAME Record (Canonical Name Record) - An entry in your DNS table (zone file) that aliases a FQDN to another FQDN (i.e. www.your-domain.com -> your-domain.com). In other words, the CNAME record specifies another domain to which the user would be redirected.
Cold Fusion - A scripting language for interfacing databases and advanced web development. Cold Fusion supports databases such as Microsoft Access, FoxPro, dBASE, and Paradox.
Domain name - The unique name which identifies an Internet web site. Domain names have two or more parts, separated by periods (dots). www.greenwebdesign.com is a domain name. Also see the definition for FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Name).
Domain Name System (DNS) - The way that nameservers translate Internet domain names to the corresponding IP addresses.
