Glossary of Terms

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S
Search Engine: A tool for searching information on the Internet by topic. Popular engines include InfoSeek, Inktomi and Web Crawler.
Server: One half of the client-server protocol, runs on a networked computer and responds to requests submitted by the client. Your World Wide Web brower is a client of a World Wide Web server.
Site: A single or collection of related Web pages.
SME: Small or medium Italian businesses.
SMTP: Simple Mail Transfer Protocol - a protocol dictating how email messages are exchanged over the Internet. Supply chain: Represents the movement from one company to another of a product or service. Supply chain programs are those which facilitate the exchange of documents and information between different companies.

T
TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol - this protocol is the foundation of the Internet, an agreed upon set of rules directing computers on how to exchange information with each other. Other Internet protocols, such as FTP, Gopher and HTTP sit on top of TCP/IP.
Template: Model. The term is normally used to indicate a frequently re-used model document or task, with the aim of uniformity.e.

U
Upload: To copy a file from a local computer connected to the Internet to a remote computer. Opposite is download.
URL: Uniform Resource Locator - the method by which Internet sites are addressed. An example would be "http://www.intellisoft.co.uk", the address of the this home page.

V
Visit: Synonymous with viewing a World Wide Web site.

W
WAN: Wide Area Network - a system of connected computers spanning a large geographical area.
WWW: World Wide Web, or simply Web. A subset of the Internet which uses a combination of text, graphics, audio and video (multimedia) to provide information on most every subject imaginable.

X
Xml: Standard in document memorization.

Z
ZIP: A compressed file format (.zip). Many files available on the Internet are compressed or zipped in order to reduce storage space and transfer times. To uncompress the file, you need a utility like PKZip (DOS) or WinZip (Windows).