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ASP
Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) technology provides a framework for building dynamic HTML pages which enable Internet and Intranet applications to be interactive.

Cascading Style Sheets
Style Sheets allow you to control the rendering, e.g. fonts, colors, leading, margins, typefaces, and other aspects of style, of a Web document without compromising its structure. CSS is a simple style sheet mechanism that allows authors and readers to attach style to HTML documents. It uses common desktop publishing terminology which should make it easy for professional as well as untrained designers to make use of its features. Visual design issues, such as page layout, can thus be addressed separately from the Web page logical structure.

Databases
Simply put, a database is a computerized record keeping system. More completely, it is a system involving data, the hardware that physically stores that data, the software that utilizes the hardware's file system in order to 1) store the data and 2) provide a standardized method for retrieving or changing the data, and finally, the users who turn the data into information.

Design
Web site design is more than just some text and pretty graphics.

DHTML
"Dynamic HTML" is typically used to describe the combination of HTML, style sheets and scripts that allows documents to be animated. Dynamic HTML allows a Web page to change after it's loaded into the browser --there doesn't have to be any communication with the Web server for an update. You can think of it as 'animated' HTML. For example, a piece of text can change from one size or color to another, or a graphic can move from one location to another, in response to some kind of user action, such as clicking a button.

Graphics
Resources, demos and tutorials on the basics of graphics design and construction, including integrating images into your Web pages.

HTML
HyperText Markup Language is the fundamental building stuff of the Web. We present several articles, tutorials, and references on HTML.

Computers and Internet
Internet is about the Internet in general, including history, structure, applications, email, protocols, commerce, Web-related topics, organisations, statistics, intranets, e-zines, and pointers to further information.

Multimedia
Multimedia makes your Web sites come alive. These tutorials can help make that happen.

Perl
a interpretative language used in CGI for handling text files

PHP
An open-source server-parsed embedded scripting language.

Usability
Make certain that your Web sites are "user-friendly".

VRML
VRML is an acronym for "Virtual Reality Modeling Language". It is the International Standard (ISO/IEC 14772) file format for describing interactive 3D multimedia on the Internet.

Web Programming & Scripting
Static HTML pages can be supplemented with server or client-side programming, or 'scripting' as it is often known. Currently the main languages for this are Perl, Java, and JavaScript, sometimes used in combination with CGI.

XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a human-readable, machine- understandable, general syntax for describing hierarchical data, applicable to a wide range of applications (databases, e- commerce, Java, Web development, searching, etc.).