A guide to the acronyms and abbreviations that are used on this website.
CMS (Content Management System)
A content management system (CMS) is a computer software system for organising and facilitating the collaborative creation of documents and other content.
EMAIL (Electronic Mail)
Electronic mail, most commonly abbreviated email and e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages.
GIF (Graphics Interchange Format)
The Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) is a bitmap image format that was introduced by CompuServe in 1987 and has since come into widespread usage on the World Wide Web due to its wide support and portability.
IP (Internet Protocol)
Internet Protocol (IP) is the primary protocol in the Internet Layer of the Internet Protocol Suite and has the task of delivering distinguished protocol datagrams (packets) from the source host to the destination host solely based on their addresses.
ISP (Internet Service Provider)
An internet service provider (ISP), also sometimes referred to as an Internet access provider (IAP), is a company that offers its customers access to the Internet.
JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
Named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group who created the standard. JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for photographic images. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable trade-off between storage size and image quality.
PNG (Portable Network Graphics)
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license.
SEO (Search Engine Otimization)
Search engine optimization, the use of various techniques to improve a web site's ranking in the search engines and thus attract more visitors.
SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) is an internet standard for electronic mail (email) transmission across Internet Protocol (IP) networks.
WWW (World Wide Web)
The World Wide Web (WWW) and commonly known as The Web, is a system of interlinked hypertext documents contained on the internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia and navigate between them by using hyperlinks.