* AJAX
AJAX, stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, which is a term describing a web development technique for creating interactive web applications using a combination of: * HTML (or XHTML) and Cascading Style Sheets for presenting information* Document Object Model, JavaScript to dynamically display and interact with the information presented* XML, XSLT and the XMLHttpRequest object to interchange and manipulate data asynchronously with the web server.
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AJAX).

* Animation
It is referred to an image that changes over time. A simple example is Abacus logo where the red dot is moving up and down every several seconds.

* ASP
Short for Active Server Pages that is used for creating dynamic content of a web page. Technically said it is a server side scripting language. It is mostly used on Windows platforms.

* Bandwidth
Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data that can travel a communications path in a given time, usually measured in seconds. If you think of the communications path as a pipe, then bandwidth represents the width of the pipe that determines how much data can flow through it all at once.

* Banner
Also referred to as a banner ad, a banner is a typically rectangular advertisement placed on a Web site either above, below or on the sides of the Web site's main content and is linked to the advertiser's own Web site. Banner can also come in the form of event or special sales blocks on your web site. With an Aldebaran Studios web site we specialize in banner creations! With our Deluxe web site package all banner creations are included! We also provide an almost unlimited range of option for banner implementation.

* Browser
Very often called Web browser, a software application used to locate and display Web pages. The two most popular browsers are Apple's Safari, Mozilla's FireFox and Camino, and there's Microsoft Internet Explorer which insists on NOT being industry W3C compliant. There are many other browsers like AOL Browser, Opera, NeoPlanet and others.

* CMS
Content Managed System is a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, edit, review, index, search, publish and archive various kinds of digital media and electronic text.

CMSs are used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures. The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content. These concepts represent integrated and interdependent layers. There are various nomenclatures known in this area: Web Content Management, Digital Asset Management, Digital Records Management, Electronic Content Management and so on. The bottom line for these systems is managing content and publishing, with a work flow if required.

Aldebaran Studios specializes in CMS web sites and is ranked number one in it's business class!

* Database
A special way of organizing computer data. It looks like a table implemented columns and rows for fast accessing data from any of the cells in the table. There are many different types of databases but all of them work on the same principle. Databases are very useful for storing and organizing data for later retrieval. Very often used for managing accounts, managing user information, creating guest books and bulletin boards, even this page (dictionary) is implemented with database. Aldebaran Studios CMS sites are based on MYSql databases, an industry standard and as secure and reputable as they get! Trust you content and site back-end to the experience of Aldebaran Studios - we have your assets covered!

CAPTCHA : Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart
CAPTCHA systems are used to prevent the automated misuse of websites. The goal is to ensure that the web site is being used by a real human being, and not to an automated programs known as "Bots". CAPTCHA usually takes the form of presenting a small graphic with a code to input to validate a web site's submission form. This can greatly reduce spam from automated web crawling programs called SpamBots. They are designed to seek out your submission forms and spam the heck out of you.
Like with all things, CAPTCHA isn't infallible, but in battling the everyday irritation of the common moronic spammers it works quite well. At Aldebaran Studios our sites using CAPTCHA have seen a 99.9% drop in spam using the simplest captcha technology, along with other technologies we keep hushed about for obvious reasons; And that 1% in question we think are a real human beings. For web site submission forms captcha is the greatest thing since 128 bit encryption - it gets the job done!


* Discussion Group
A web page that supports interactive discussions by users. Users submit text content using a form, that is saved on the server and that way make it available to other visitors. Forums and WIKIs are popular discussion groups. Some web sites even have interactive user commenting on videos and stories. Aldebaran Studios is familiar with these systems and offers several affordable solutions to choose from.

* DNS
The Domain Name System which identifies each computer as a network point on the Internet using an Internet protocol address systems to translate from domain name to IP and reverse. Aldebaran Studios is ready to provide the utmost support for your domain name needs, from registration to the full scope of management - from transfers, MX settings, Forwarding, Masking, Parking and disputes.

* Domain Name
A unique name that identifies one or more IP addresses. For example, the domain name abacus.ca represents one IP address. Domain names are used in URLs to identify particular Web pages. Every web site that you visit is stored under domain name.

* Domain Name Extension
Part after the dot in the domain name is a domain name extension. In the AldebaranStudios.com domain, domain extension is .com . There are many other domain name extensions such as .ca .net .org .gov .edu .mil .info .web .us .uk .cc .it .mx .ba and many others.

* Domain Email
Domain Email is an email account directly tied to a hosting service hosting a domain name. For example a company called AldebaranStudios.com may have an email that looks like " This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ". In most cases, with reputable hosting services like those use by Aldebaran Studios, domain email can be the most unobtrusive and secure email services online. ISP email accounts are governed by idiots who have concern for their customers but for their own greed in staying open, obsessively filtering your email under the excuse of "protecting you from harm" to scrape up every last penny from their users. At Aldebaran Studios we include a package of domain POP3 email accounts to assure your business or venture web site is secure and unrestricted by any big brother restrictions such as with AOL, AT&T, SBC Global, Comcast and many other corporate ISPs. Your freedoms and privacy are of top concern at Aldebaran Studios.

* Downloading
Downloading is the method by which users access and save or "pull down" software or other files to their own computers from a remote computer, usually via a modem. Aldebaran Studios offers e-commerce solutions for the downloading of digital products!

* E-Commerce
E-Commerce means conducting business on the Internet. It is mostly referred to buying and selling items on line. Aldebaran Studios is is here to provide you some of the most frugal e-commerce systems! We can design a secure and formidable shopping cart system to cater to almost any small business need - finding innovative yet frugal solutions is what we do!

* Encryption
A way of coding the information in a file or e-mail message so that if it is intercepted by a third party as it travels over a network it cannot be read. Only the persons sending and receiving the information have the key and this makes it unreadable to anyone except those persons (your browser does it automatically). "HTTPS" is the web site protocol for secure online selling, it is indicated by a small lock, open or closed, to indicate if a web site is secure - protecting your customer's valuable information such as addresses, phone and credit card numbers. Aldebaran Studios excels in expertise in these areas, providing the best possible e-commerce solution for a small business!

* Flash
Browser independent vector and graphic animation technology owned by Macromedia Inc.. Most browsers support Flash technology and one flash animation looks the same on all browsers. Flash can be extremely taxing on a user's computer, too much of a good thin can hurt you. It is best to use it sparingly and wisely. Aldebaran Studios experience with flash can help you determine the right balance of Flash solutions for you.

* FTP
FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol which is one of the most popular methods of transferring files over the Internet. It can be done using a application on a personal computer or by web based systems for uploading and downloading critical systems data.

* GIF
GIF stands for graphics interchange format, it is a bit-mapped graphics file format used by the World Wide Web. GIF supports colour and various resolutions. But it is limited to 256 colors. Graphic design is a natural instinctive part of the Aldebaran Studios body of services - designs not only must look good, but must be practical and functional to serve you and your business effectively! At Aldebaran Studios we got you "colored"!

* Home Page
It is a first page (also called opening page) of a Web site. Technically this page would be named index.html or default.html. Aldebaran Studios web designs excels at optimizing your home-page to maximize your business image as top notch and totally professional - first impressions ARE important and Aldebaran Studios knows what this means to a small business!

* Hosting
Hosting is a service provided by hosting company. That's a place (a computer available on the Internet) where web site is stored and made available to web site users to view the content of that web site. A web site is nothing without a secure and dependable server to place you web site on. At Aldebaran Studios our hosting is state of the art - which is why we insist on approval of your choice of hosting companies and strongly recommend using ours in our web site packages! We know our servers and have been working with UNX Apache servers, the backbone of the Internet, for over 15 years!

* HTML
Stands for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring and editing language used to create web pages on the World Wide Web.

* Internet
The largest global network connecting millions of computers. It is strictly based on TCP/IP protocol for communication between host and server.

* Intranet
A private network belonging to an organization, usually a corporation, accessible only by the organization's members, employees, or others with authorization.

* IP Address
An IP (Internet Protocol) address is a unique identifier for a point or host connection on an IP network. An IP address is a 32 bit binary number usually represented as 4 decimal values, each representing 8 bits, in the range 0 to 255 (known as octets) separated by decimal points. It is just a number like 66.46.105.9

* Java applet
A short program written in Java (not JavaScript) that is attached to a World Wide Web page and executed by the browser machine. Often used for complicated web applications or features. As with Flash, Java Applets can cause concerning their use, they can interfere with other more crucial function and slow a web page down to a crawl, causing a loss of visitations and in the length of time visitors stay on you site. At Aldebaran Studios, balancing function with design to maximize intent is a speciality.

* JavaScript
JavaScript is a client-side scripting language that allows dynamic behavior to be specified within HTML documents. Most browsers support java, however some browsers are ignorantly disabled for JavaScript use, others like Internet Explorer which does not conform to W3C standards causing more dysfunctional issues.

* JPEG (JPG)
Stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG uses compression technique for color images and therefore some details are lost in the compression yet giving relatively good quality. It is widely used on the Internet and other digital applications. Graphic design is a natural instinctive part of the Aldebaran Studios body of services - designs not only must look good, but must be practical and functional to serve you and your business effectively! At Aldebaran Studios we got you "colored"!

* LAMP Technology
A website built upon a platform utilizing Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP.

* Link
Sometimes called hyperlink. A link is object on the web page. When visitor of a web site click with the mouse on that object then user is taken to another web page where the link is pointing to. Different types of links are: text links, graphic links, java links, form links. ALL linking is a very crucial aspect of online marketing. Complying to SEO standards is important in getting listed with search engines. Linking reflects popularity and integrity in your site content. At Aldebaran Studios we understand and keep up with the latest SEO technologies and there implementations. Know how much an internal and external reputation affects your site is a speciality.

* MP3
MP3 is the file extension for MPEG, audio layer 3. Layer 3 is one of three coding schemes (layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3) for the compression of audio signals. MP3 files could be embedded into web site providing music while visitors are viewing the site. MP3 files are relatively small comparing to other audio files and therefore are quite suitable for transferring over the Internet. At Aldebaran Studios, multimedia is a specialty!

* PHP
PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a server-side, HTML embedded scripting language used to create dynamic Web pages. Designed for Windows and Unix type platforms. PHP is the hardened and battle proven back bone of CMS web sites. Optimized for UNIX servers, it's a match made in heaven for a top notch small business web site. PHP CMS sites are Aldebaran Studios exclusive specialty!

* Protocol
A formal set of conventions that allow communication between two communicating functional units. Simply said it is a language that computers use to talk to each other. Of course there are many such languages. Most popular is TCP/IP used officially on the Internet.

* Search Engine
A program that performs searching on documents for specified terms or phrases and returns a list of the documents where those terms were found. Search Engines are lately referred to Internet Search Engines. Most popular search engines today are Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, MSN, AllTheWeb, Excite, Lycos, AOL, HotBot, Altavista. There are over several thousands search engines and growing every day. Most fall in line with Google and Yahoo in operation trends. Let Aldebaran Studios show you how to optimize and maximize your web site for SEOs!

* Search Engine Optimization "SEO"
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an act of of increasing the the number of visitors to a particular Web site by adding appropriate keywords and phrases, and such ranking high in the search results. The higher a Web site ranks in the results of a search, the greater the chance that your site will be found by a search user. For general and competitive web sites it takes a lot of professionalism to tweak the web site in order to be well optimized and search engine friendly.

* Spam
Spam refers to the practice of sending a mass volume of messages, advertisements or malware to email and Internet users, or posting to newsgroups and forums. Spam has evolved into the use of Bots which seek out web sites and fill out unprotected submission forms with massive loads of spam. This mass bombardment of junk mail follows the thinking the small percentage of respondees, or "suckers" in most cases, is worth angering the masses. Other devious people do it for pure evil in disrupting people's lives - AKA: Internet Terrorists". Governments have looked the other way, as usual, in matters of the Internet where they could help stop this waste of people's time and bandwidth, but instead they have continued to allow these practices when a simple number of enforced laws would slow it to a whimpering crawl. For now bad business practices and fraud will continue and at a growing rate.

* Submission Forms
Forms are web pages "fields" for a user to fill in with information. They are an excellent way of collecting and processing information from people visiting a website, as well as allowing them to interact with web pages. Forms are written in HTML and processed by CGI programs. The output can be sent as an e-mail form, stored online, printed, and/or returned to the user as an HTML page. Today a site form without some form of SpamBot protection such as "captcha" - those graphic based codes required to submit a form. There has been some debate on the practical effectiveness of captcha use, but at Aldebaran Studios we have had a 99.9% decrease in spam from SpamBots since implementing captcha use combined with several back end functions. so to the opposition of captcha, we think they're just ignorant, lazy or stupid. BUT. If you want tons of spam from your web site submission forms, we'd be happy to design a site without captcha ;) At Aldebaran Studios, we take spam seriously.

* Thumbnail
A small version of a bigger image on a web page. Usually containing a hyperlink to a full-size version of the image.

* Upload
Upload or uploading is the method by which users access and save or transfer software or other files to their another computer or server from a remote computer, usually via a modem. Uploading usually requires authorized access to the destination computer, a user name and password.

* URL
It stands for Uniform Resource Locator, which is a string that supplies the Internet address of a resource on the World Wide Web, along with the protocol by which the resource is accessed. The most common URL type is "http," which gives the Internet address of a World Wide Web page. Some other URL types are gopher and ftp.

* Video Clip
A short video sequence that can be embedded into a web page.

* Web Application
Web Applications are web programs or real programs designed to be used on the web site using a browser. Example of web application would be e-commerce web site, web banking, stock exchange on the web, web games and many others. Web applications are becoming very popular due to wide availability of the Internet access.

* Web Based E-mail
Web based e-mail is a software on a POP3 server that allows you the luxury, if desired, to access your POP accounts by simply using a web-browser. It allows users to send and receive emails via any web-browser by viewing an HTML web page. We based email is great, but nothing is more secure than client side application access to a domain POP3 email account - where YOU direct control! At Aldebaran Studios, privacy and security is a specialty and a primary concern!

* Web Site
A site presence on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page (index page), which is the first document users see when they enter the site. Aldebaran Studios is a reputable service that creates some of the finest web sites on the Internet. Aldebaran Studios is building a growing reputation for it's innovative small business web site solutions and business integrity.

* World Wide Web
A system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a script called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web - like those used by governments and big corporations, usually implementing Microsoft technologies, that get hacked into, lose critical private data or jeopardize customer's private information reported in the news. At Aldebaran Studios we use only UNIX Apache servers and hosting services (and so should you), with their long since the dawn of the Internet stability, security and reliability. The Maytag repairman and the UNIX IT worker share an lounge together. To to trust a Microsoft alternative is to invite trouble and then more trouble by calling a tech trained by Microsoft.