This internet acronyms reference page can be useful to understand various terms often used on the internet. Learning what internet acronyms mean can help the user understand what is being referred to when exploring the internet. Another useful quick reference tool you may want to look over is my Glossary page.
BLOG: Weblog or writings of thoughts, ideas or advice on the internet
BMP: Bitmap file formats, an image file format used to store bitmap digital images, especially on Microsoft Windows and OS/2 operating systems
CMS: Content Management System, a computer application used to manage work flow needed to collaboratively create, index, search, edit, review, publish and archive various types of electronic text and digital media on the internet
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets
DIV: Division, in HTML code
DIY: Do-It-Yourself
FTP: File Transfer Protocol
HREF: Hypertext Reference
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
GIF: Graphics Interchange Format, an animation video/bitmap image format that supports up to 8 bits per pixel and also allows a single image to reference a palette of up to 256 distinct colors chosen from a 24-bit RGB color space
HTML: HyperText Markup Language
HTTP: HyperText Transfer Protocol
IE: Internet Explorer
IP: Internet Provider
ISP: Internet Service Provider
JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group, commonly used method of compression for photographic images
KD: Keyword Density, is the percentage of times a keyword or key phrase appears on a website page compared to the total number of words that are on the page
NBSP: non-breaking space between paragraphs in HTML code
PDF: Portable Document Format is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for displaying two-dimensional documents in a manner independent of the application hardware, software and operating system.
RGB: Red Green Blue color attributes used to create a broad array of other colors
SBO: Small Business Owner
SBW: Small Business Webiste
SEO: Search Engine Optimization, the process of improving the quality or volume of traffic to a website from search engines using natural or un-paid search results
URL: Uniform Resource Location, a file’s unique source on the web
XHTML: eXtensible HyperText Markup Language
WWW: WorldWide Web
WYSIWYG: What You See Is What You Get
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