Secure Area

PayPal is an e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers be made through the internet. It serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as cheques and money orders. PayPal performs payment processing for online vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users, for which it charges a fee.

For more information please visit PayPal.

Search

When referring to an e-commerce web site a category is a group of products that related to each other. For example milk and cheese would both fall under the category of dairy.

Shopping Basket

The search facility allows visitors to search through the products in your store by typing words into a text field. Other search options can be made available, for example to filter out any items older than a specified date.

Email Forwarding

Email forwarding is a term used to describe the redirection of emails from one address to another. For example you may wish to set up a number of email addresses but only wish to have one email inbox. In this case email forwarding is the ideal solutions, any emails sent to these alternative addresses are redirected to a single address.

WebMail

A global problem with emails at the present time is what is called 'spam'. This is an email sent in large numbers to randomised or somehow collected email addresses, normally these emails contain adverts for various products or services that may be considered unsavoury or may contain malicous files such as a virus.

Due to the nature of the email system used across the world it is impossible to completely eliminate spam. Spam filters work to attempt to identify and act upon possible spam emails by various methods.

Spam filters can act upon suspected spam emails in a number of different ways, either deleting, marking or redirecting these emails. It is important to note that spam filters are not totally infallible and will identify legitimate emails as spam on occasion.

POP3

Post Office Protocol version 3 (POP3) is a protocol used to gain access to emails in an email inbox. POP3 is used by email programs such as Outlook Express, Thunderbird, KMail and Apple's Mail program.

Screen Readers

An Administration Section is a private area for the owner of the web site to update certain features on the site such as shop, news or gallery items.

This section may also allow for updates of certain site details such as contact details, number of items per page and other such features. The scope of an Administration Section is limited only by the clients requirements.

Storage Space

A form is made up of a number of fields. A field essentially a tool to allow a visitor to answer a question on a form. There are a number of different types, the more common ones are shown below.

Administration Section

cPanel is an advanced control panel system that allows the user to change a wide variety of aspects of their web hosting service settings through an easy to use graphical interface.

For more information about cPanel visit wikipedia.

Visual Basic Programming

C is a well established programming language that allows development of applications that can be executed with no additional files required except the executable file. C can be compiled on most operating systems and all major ones, the resulting binary can also be executable or a linkable library. C++ ("C Plus Plus") is a newer and more powerful version of C, it has the same multiple operating system uses.

C/C++ Programming

Java is an extensive language built from many small packages each of which contain various types of tools. Java will execute on many different operating systems at several different levels making it very versatile. Execution time with Java is a little slower than C/C++ but this is not always an issue, Java also requires a 'Java Virtual Machine' to be installed onto the operating system.

Perl / PHP

Visual Basic is not a basic language - it is powerful enough for most applications and is extensible using C/C++ link libraries. Visual Basic was designed to build applications with graphical interfaces quickly and reliably although it is limited to Microsoft operating systems and requires the Visual Basic libraries to be installed onto the operating system. The speed of execution is medium, somewhere between C/C++ and Java.

News Page

The home page is meant to introduce viewers to your site.

In larger sites, such as the Silver package and above, this page will contain minimal information about the site content but will reflect the content of the site to entice the person browsing the site to continue to other pages.

Smaller sites, such as the Bronze package, will have the majority of the site content on the home page.

Contact Page

The information page contains detailed information about the purpose of the site, for example this may be information about a charity, a company or a person.

Smaller sites may do without an information page and instead have this information on the home page.

The primary reason for putting this information on a separate page is to not overwhelm the site visitor with information on the home page. The information page is there to be a source of information if the visitor wishes to read more about the site.

Discussion Forum

The news page is a list of news items, sorted into date order. This allows the visitor to keep up to date with developments to do with the site. Usually our news pages come with an Administration section.

Another useful function of the news page is to let the visitor see that the site is currently active and has been updated recently.