Active Directory

A Microsoft technology to unify the management of an organisation's users, departments and IT resources.

AJAX

Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, a set of scripting languages used to create browser-based applications that behave more like software applications.

Content management system

A system used to manage the content of a website. Also abbreviated to CMS.

GITC

Government Information Technology Conditions, a set of standing terms and conditions for public sector information technology purchases.

GNU Public Licence

A popular license for free software, created by the Free Software Foundation.

GST

Goods and Services Tax, an Australian tax of 10% on all goods and services.

HTML

Hyper Text Markup Language, the predominant language used to create web pages.

LAMP

Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP, a combination of free software programs used together to run dynamic Web sites.

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, a networking protocol for querying and modifying an organisation's users, departments and IT resources.

Open source

Software that is freely available for anyone to use or modify.

OpenID

A decentralised single sign-on system.

Organic listing

A free, naturally occurring listing in search engine results.

RDBMS

Relational Database Management System.

RSS

RDF Site Summary (or known colloquially as "Really Simple Syndication"), a family of data feed formats used to share information over the Internet.

SEO

search engine optimisation

SERP

Search engine results page, a page listing the results of a search conducted by a search engine.

Site Administrator

The person whose job it is to administer your website.

Spam

Unsolicited email, or "junk mail".

Spam bot

An automated "robot" that scans the web for email addresses to be added to spam lists. Not good.

Tag cloud

A visual depiction of textual content tags. The bigger the font used for the tag, the more popular or frequent the term.

Web Services

Self-contained business functions that operate over the Internet.

WYSIWYG

"What You See Is What You Get" - this means a word processor style editor.