W3C
Stands for World Wide Web Consortium. Group that establishes rules and standards beyond Web technologies.
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WAMP
WAMP is an acronym that stands for Windows, Apache, MySQL, and PHP (or Perl or Python). It is a Web development platform that defines the Operating System (Windows), Web Server (Apache), database (MySQL), and scripting language (PHP, Perl, or Python).
Web Applications
These are the applications that the users can access from a web server using the Internet or an Intranet through the web browser.
Web Browser
Computing program used for viewing web pages and interact with them. Some web browser programs are: Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, Safari, Midori, Epiphany, Amaya, Links, Internet explorer ...
Web designer
A Web designer is someone who designs Web pages: concept, images, style... defining part of its requirements. A Web designer often uses WYSIWYG editors rather than diving into the HTML directly.
Web designers normally use these design programs: InDesign, Photoshop, Fireworks Dreamweaver (HTML y CSS)
Web developer
A web developer is the person who creates web pages, focussing its work in the web page’s internal performance. The most popular techniques used by them are:
HTML CSS Javascript (jQuery, ExtJS) GWT Data Base (MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle) Programming codes:ASP.NET, PHP, JSP
Web log
Weblogs or blogs are an easy way to get content up on a website, every short period of time, which can be used as a diary, news list...
Web Page
Any document written or programmed through HTML specification, along with other technologies such as CSS, Javascript and serverside programming languages, which can be seen in a web browser such as Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer or Opera.
Web server
A Web server is a computer that is set up with some special CPU, RAM and network features, as well as with some software and networking capabilities to deliver Web pages on the Internet or an Intranet. Web servers use programs such as Apache or IIS to deliver Web pages over the http and https protocol.
Web standard
Web standards is a general term for the formal specifications and rules surrounding building web pages created and maintained by the W3C. There are standards for: HTML including XHTML, HTML 4, and HTML 5; CSS including CSS 1, CSS 2, and CSS 3, XML and many related specifications like RSS, XSLT, XPath, and XML Schemas.
Well Formed
There are two important aspects to be considered when we are coding in XML: Well Formed and valid. A document is considered well formed when is fulfilling the minimum requisites for the processors and XML validators to read the document. An XML document consists on two different types of text: MArkups: these are the ones used to identify the elements forming the document, such as tags, comments, entities, etc. Content:this is the information contained within the markup text
White space
White space is the empty spaces in a design. White space is used to separate disparate design elements and group similar ones. White space is the lack of graphics or text in the layout. White space is not always “white”. It is the empty parts of the page, but if the page has a different background color that will be the color of the white space.
The characters that create a white space are: Space Tab Return
Wiki
Website whose content is managed by its users. The access control is normaly made through user and password in order to filter unwanted contents
Wireframe
Wireframe is the visual representation of a website. It allows to the designers and developers to have a draft of the requisites and functions use, graphic elements, structure and content with draws and diagrams.
A wireframe normally consists in: Positioning the most relevant elements, structuring the most important elements such as headings, frames, surfing... A map of the site including all the site’s pages, some additional pages to show different stages of the main page, flowchart of the interactive elements
Working draft
A working draft is a specification being developed by the correspondent committee. It is useful for the developers of current technologies to know which direction the new versions of web technologies are leading to, although they cannot be considered as final recommendations or specifications.
WYSIWYG
Stands for What You See Is What You Get. WYSIWYG is a system in which content onscreen during editing appears in a form closely corresponding to its appearance when printed or displayed as a finished product, which might be a printed document or web page. Font code is abstracted and objects can be managed in a visual way.
WYSIWYG Editor
Visual web page editor where you can work on the page’s design.