What Does it All Mean
Graphic/Web Design
Using Adobe Photoshop and illistrator to design and shape how your web site will look, designing the layout to the buttons and how content will be presented
XHTML
Like HTML (EXtensible HTML) A markup language for Web pages from the W3C. XHTML combines HTML and XML into a single format (HTML 4.0 and XML 1.0). Like XML, XHTML can be extended with proprietary tags. Also like XML, XHTML must be coded more rigorously than HTML. Over the years, HTML coders have become sloppy, because Web browser software was originally written to tolerate many variations in HTML coding. With XHTML, coders must conform to the rules.
CSS (Cascading Style Sheets)
A style sheet format for HTML documents endorsed by the World Wide Web Consortium. CSS1 (Version 1.0) provides hundreds of layout settings that can be applied to all the subsequent HTML pages that are downloaded. CSS2 (Version 2.0) adds support for XML, oral presentations for the visually impaired, downloadable fonts and other enhancements.
jQuery
jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript library that emphasizes interaction between JavaScript and HTML.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
Designing a Web site so that search engines easily find the pages and index them. The goal is to have your page be in the top 10 results of a search. Optimization includes the choice of words used in the text paragraphs and the placement of those words on the page, both visible and hidden inside meta tags.
CMS (Content Management System)
Software that manages documents for Web sites. It provides for the storage, maintenance and retrieval of HTML documents and all related elements.
Paypal
PayPal is the safer, easier way to pay and get paid online. The service allows anyone to pay in any way they prefer, including through credit cards, bank accounts, buyer credit or account balances, without sharing financial information.
Frog CMS (Content Management System)
Frog CMS simplifies content management by offering an elegant user interface, flexible templating per page, simple user management and permissions, as well as the tools necessary for file management. Born as phpRadiant in January 2007, Frog CMS is a PHP version of Radiant CMS, a well known Ruby on Rails application. Although the two applications still share a family resemblance, Frog is charting its own development path.
Wordpress Open Source Blogging Platform
WordPress is a state-of-the-art publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability.
More simply, WordPress is what you use when you want to work with your blogging software, not fight it.
Google Maps
The Google Maps API lets you embed Google Maps in your own web pages with JavaScript. The API provides a number of utilities for manipulating maps (just like on the http://maps.google.com web page) and adding content to the map through a variety of services, allowing you to create robust maps applications on your website.
Domain Names
An organization's unique name on the Internet. The chosen name combined with a top level domain (TLD), such as .com or .org, also called a "domain extension," makes up the Internet domain name. For example, neillh.com.au is the domain name for this website. By 2006, there were more than 70 million registered domain names.
Web Hosting
Making a Web site available on the Internet. Multi-page, commercial Web sites are hosted at a very wide range of prices, and the customer's registered domain name is used. A single computer can hold dozens to hundreds of small Web sites, while a dedicated computer or multiple computers (from a handful to thousands) may be used for one large Web site.