A Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) provides the ability to customize the formatting of web pages, by defining fonts; colours of titles, paragraph spacing, etc.

The hosting company provides you with an entire hosting setup including your own server hardware that only you can use. This means a much faster loading time for your site because the entire computer is "dedicated" to running the server software.

Dialup access is a way of connecting a computer to the Internet using a modem and the telephone line. It is rather slow and blocks the telephone line.

The forwarding of one domain name to another website URL or IP address. Alos known as redirection, when you visit a URL you are automatically forwarded on to the next URL.

The Domain Name System is the system that translates Internet domain names into IP numbers. A "DNS Server" is a server that performs this kind of translation.

The act of registering a domain, then placing it on a server for future reservation or usage purposes. Commonly used tactic for reserving name similar or relevant to the original for example reserving the .com and .net versions of your .ie address.

E-commerce is the buying and selling of goods and services on the Internet. In reality there are many terms that represent the same thing, e-business and e-tailing can often be used interchangeably.

An email function that automatically returns a prewritten message to anyone who sends e-mail to a particular e-mail address. Auto responders are widely used for the purpose of responding to visitor comments and suggestions in a preliminary way. “We have received your message and will get back to you soon”

An email function that sends a copy of an e-mail to another e-mail address.

An application used to compose, send, receive and view e-mails. Some common examples include Outlook, Outlook Express, and Eudora.

POP (Post Office Protocol) is an actual e-mail account on your web host's e-mail server. Think of each POP account as a unique email address. You can create aliases for an address for example, info@redpebble.ie could be the main pop address but johnsmith@redpebble.ie is the alias. Both addresses are valid but only one account is used.

FrontPage is the name of the application that is available from Microsoft Corporation to provide users with a graphical interface for the creation of web pages. The application also allows certain site management features such as FTP and some server functionality.

The Server Extensions for the Microsoft FrontPage web site creation and management tool are a set of server-side applications that allow you to incorporate many advanced features without having to write the complex server-side programs typically required.

FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is the protocol used on the Internet for sending files.

An application that uses the File Transfer Protocol to connect to a server and transfer files to and from the server.