The creative process of designing websites, images, logos, visuals etc that conveys a message to the target audience.

The business of housing, serving, and maintaining files for one or more Web sites. More important than the computer space that is provided for Web site files is the fast connection to the Internet. 

A framework and set of programming tools from IBM for the uniform creation and control of intermediary programs such as proxy servers, transcoding processors, and any kind of program that sits somewhere between two end points in a network. 

Webmaster Tools are those that allow webmasters to check indexing status and optimize visibility of their websites among search engines. Examples for renown webmaster tools are Google Webmaster tool and Bing Webmaster center.

The integration of information gathered by traditional data mining methodologies and techniques with information gathered over the World Wide Web. It is used to understand customer behavior, evaluate Web sites, and quantify marketing campaigns.

A web portal is most often one specially-designed Web page at a website which brings information together from diverse sources in a uniform way.

A proposed Internet protocol that allows a client, such as a Web browser or a streaming media application, to automatically locate and interface with cache services in a network so that information can be delivered more quickly to the user. 

A computer software technique of extracting information from websites. It usually simulate human exploration of the World Wide Web by either implementing low-level HTTP, or embedding a fully-fledged web browser, such as Internet Explorer.

A web search engine is used for searching for information on the World Wide Web. Search results are presented in a line of results often referred to as Search Engine Results Pages (SERP's).

Web Security is part of Information Security that focues on security of websites, web applications and web services. The majority of web attacks occur through cross-site scripting (XSS) and SQL injection attacks which typically occur from flawed coding, and failure to sanitize input and output from the web application.  Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is the emerging standards body for Web security.

A type of electronic support (e-support) that allows customers and employees to access information and perform routine tasks over the Internet, without requiring any interaction with a representative of an enterprise. 

A program that, using the client/server model and the World Wide Web's Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), serves the files that form Web pages to Web users. Every computer on the Internet that contains a Web site must have a Web server program. 

Services that are made available from a business's Web server for Web users or other Web-connected programs. Providers of Web services are generally known as application service providers.

A programming language that provides a global, message-oriented view of processes involving multiple Web services.

A web service is a self-contained and self-describing application component that can be accessed by other programs over the web using open protocols.  

A protocol for managing atomic transactions between distributed applications, transaction managers and resource managers. WS-AT ensures that if a single atomic transaction fails, the whole transaction fails.