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What are Meta Tags?
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What is a Site Map?
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What is ASP? |
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What is a Template Web Design?
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What are Forms Interactivity?
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What kind of consultation is available?
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What is a dynamically developed site? |
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What is HTML? |
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What is JavaScript™? |
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What is the term, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)? |
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What is password protection? |
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What is Java®? |
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What is SSL or Secure Sockets Layer? |
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What is Perl Script? |
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Meta Tags are HTML tags that search engines use to index web sites. Meta Tags can be very useful for Web developers. They can be used to identify the creator of the page, what HTML specs the page follows, the keywords and description of the page, and the refresh parameter (which can be used to cause the page to reload itself, or to load another page).
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A Site Map is basically a large flow chart that shows how the content is organized in the web site. A Site Map should show every key page in the site and how it relates to the others.
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ASP - Active Server
Pages is a web development tool created by Microsoft. It allows you to create
dynamic, high-performance websites. ASP gives you the ability to access
databases, respond to queries, and dynamically edit content. ASP can be
written in any text editor. The file can contain HTML, XML, and scripts. ASP
scripts are executed on the server. Since the server returns ASP as plain HTML,
they can be viewed on any browser. ASP only supports interpreted VBScript and JScript. ASP runs inside IIS (Internet Information Services) or PWS (Personal
Web Server). It comes as a free component to Windows 2000 and NT Option Pack.
Programmers choose ASP over CGI and Perl because of the simplicity, speed, and
it provides security because the scripts cannot be viewed in a browser.
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Templates are web pages or part of a page that is designed to be used in conjunction with other data or other parts of a page, a component. They allow for greater design efficiency. Each element in a template must coordinate with other elements on the site.
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Forms Interactivity allows you to copy site visitors' responses such as a detailed survey, log product registrations or email customer comments to a product manager to a text file on your Web servers.
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Consultation services allows the customer to provide input with regard to design layout flow by first creating a sketched layout of the design process and the consultation shows what is feasible and what is not for your particular content with regard to interactivity on your web site. Consultation is provided for existing web sites as well as new web site design.

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Dynamic HTML encompasses a lot of things from text that changes color when the mouse moves over it to animations flying on and off the screen. DHTML is the interaction of HTML, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript.
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HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language which is a scripting language readable on the internet. HTML files have two components, HTML tags and text of the web page. HTML tags indicate page elements, structure, formatting and hypertext links to other pages.
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JavaScript™ is a programming language that enables a Web Browser to process applications created using scripts. JavaScripts are embedded scripts in the HTML files. This enables the Web Browser to process scripts on the client-side.
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Cascading Style Sheets act as a "template" that controls the layout and design of your pages. They work separately from your HTML, giving you easier maintainability. Style Sheets allow you to specify margins, colors, fonts, link styles, alignment, sizes, and more. You can also create many more different layouts for the same HTML Tag. Because you can use more than one style on a page, the browser follows the rules in a cascading order to determine precedence and to resolve conflicts. If the linked style sheet defines a heading tag as blue, the top-of-page style sheet defines it as red, and the reader wants to see purple, the browser has to decide what to display. In general, the author's style sheets override the reader's style sheet, which in turn overrides the browser's default values. If the author uses all three methods listed above, the inline styles take precedence over the embedded block, which overrides the linked style sheet.

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Password Protection restricts certain users from accessing information in an entire web site or for one or more pages of the web site based on several criteria:
- Username, password-level access authorization
- Rejections or acceptance of connections based on internet address of client
- A combination of the above two methods.
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Java® is a programming language developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc. that can be included in an HTML page, much in the same way an image is included. An applet is a program written in the Java programming language. Java applets and servlets are an efficient way to add sound and animation such as scrolling messages and color cycling buttons to a page.
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Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology is the industry-standard method for protecting web communications developed by Netscape Communications Corporation. Digital certificates encrypt data using SSL. The SSL security protocol provides data encryption, server authentication, message integrity, and optional client authentication for a TCP/IP connection. Because SSL is built into all major browsers and web servers, simply installing a digital certificate turns on their SSL capabilities.
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Perl Script is an immensely powerful and
flexible scripting language. This scripting language runs on Unix systems.
It is derived from the C programming language and to a lesser extent from sed,
awk, the Unix shell, and at least a dozen other tools and languages. Perl's
process, file, and text manipulation facilities make it particularly well-suited
for tasks involving quick prototyping, system utilities, software tools, system
management tasks, database access, graphical programming, networking, and world
wide web programming. These strengths make it especially popular with system
administrators and CGI script authors.
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