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Can be described as an online brochure for your business, hence the name. Contains static content, meaning changes to content are done manually. The most affordable way to get your first website.

When your website has been designed it needs to be put somewhere so that others on the Internet can visit your web pages. Hosting is like renting space on the Internet to store your web pages and domain.

A software application used to locate and display Web pages, popular browsers include Internet Explorer & Mozilla Firefox.

A unique name (e.g.dbwebstart.com) which people use to access your website.

Your visitors means of finding their way around your website. With well planned navigation, your visitor can quickly and easily find what they are looking for. It is just as important as the actual content of your website.

Programs that enable you to search the Internet for websites using specific words or phrases. e.g. google, yahoo.

Extensible / Hypertext Markup Language, the programming language used to create web pages on the World Wide Web.

Cascading Style Sheets, a programming language used to style your website, gives more flexibility & options to the look & feel of your website.CSS can be used to create visually stunning websites.

The amount of space allocated on the hosting computer for your website. All DB Webstart packages come with a huge 10 Gigabytes of web space.

In website terms, this is the amount of data transferred to & from your website, depending on factors such as the amount of visitors to your site. Put simply - the more visitors to your site, the more data transfer you need. All DB Webstart packages come with a huge 300 Gigabytes monthly data transfer.

Worldwide Web Consortium - An international industry consortium founded in 1994 by Tim Berners-Lee to develop standards for the Web. The W3C has standardized many of the fundamental technologies of the Web.