A document viewed on the world wide web. Web documents are formatted in a markup language like HTML or XML and can also contain content produced with scripting languages like Javascript, PHP, and Perl [..]

An international standard developed for the C language by ANSI (American National Standards Institute).

A small text file that a web server may store on a user's computer for the purpose of uniquely identifying the user during future visits to the website.

A Relational Database Management System developed by Microsoft that is part of the Microsoft Office Professional suite. Microsoft Access is often used on websites running on the Windows platform with [..]

A web technology originally developed by Microsoft for the purpose of streaming video from a webserver to a client. ActiveMovie is now known as DirectShow.

A set of technologies developed by Microsoft for the purpose of sharing information between different applications. ActiveX grew out of two other Microsoft technologies, specifically OLE (Object Linki [..]

A specific set of steps for carrying out certain tasks. Algorithms are used extensively in computer programming to arrive at a solution for a specific problem. The process of creating an algorithm inv [..]

The part of a webpage where a link begins or ends. Learn more about links in our HTML links tutorial

Stands for American National Standards Institute. ANSI is an organization responsible for such standards in the computer industry as the ANSI C Standard and FDDI (Fiber Distributed Data Interface) - t [..]

Stands for ActiveX Data Object. ADO is a technology developed by Microsoft that provides access to any kind of data source.