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.

SERP

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

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.

WYSIWIG

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