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Unity: A website design standard which states that a website design should be a cohesive theme or style existing across all site pages.

Usability: a website design standard which focuses on functionality: the efficient and effective presentation of information.

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VPN: or Virtual Private Network, is a private communications network that allows companies to communicate over a public network.

VPS: or Virtual Private Server, is a server that allows several users to share the same server resources without interfering or exchanging information with each other.

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W3C: World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web.

Web Hosting: is a service that provides the hardware, software, and technologies needed to view and interact with websites on the Web.

Web Scripts: Pre-written code for adding content or features to your website.

Whitespace: A graphic design term referring to any area of a page withou type or illustrations.

WHM: or Web Host Manager, is a control panel used by administration personnel to control their hosting accounts.

WHMCS: or Web Host Manager Complete System, is a control panel program that extends the WHM functionality for billing purposes.

Windows Hosting: Is when the server that hosts your website is using one of a family of computer operating systems (Vista, XP, API, 7, etc.) that is develloped, marketed, and sold by Microsoft.

Wireframe: A static representation of a website design showing placeholders for detailed information and content.

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XML: or Extensible Markup Language, is a language that allows developers to create their own markup tags by assigning functions to the tags.

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Zone: Partitions (zones) of responsibility in which the domain name space has been divided so multiple sub-levels of a domain may be managed independently.



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