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Do you ever feel completely left out of a conversation once the topic shifts to the Internet? Believe me, you're not alone in your confusion about the Web lingo you may have encountered. Continue reading to learn some of the most common expressions and phrases used by Web-savvy people.

E-commerce is simply the act of selling products or services on the Internet. E-commerce refers to the ability to conduct commerce electronically. There are even some businesses today that don't have physical store locations. These companies ply their trades exclusively on the Web.

HTML is the language that is used to create Web documents, and actually stands for Hypertext Markup Language. This language uses tags to identify the various design elements you'll see on a Web page or site. If, for instance, you wanted to show a particular block of text in boldface, you'd enclose it with the following tags: b> passage to be bold/b>, which use the ">" symbol to indicate where on the page the boldface type should start and where it should finish. There are many, many HTML tags that are used to format and display every single website. Your web browser reads these tags whenever you click on the link to a site so it will know how to display the page on your screen.

The term search engine refers to the tools that scour the internet to ferret out websites containing the information you seek. They appear as pages on the Internet with a search box. Inside this search box, you type in the keywords you're looking for. There is a large variety of search engines to choose from, such as Bing, AOL, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo, and Google. Google is probably the best known of the multitudes of search engines available; in fact, nowadays someone is very likely to say "Google it" when he means go to a search engine -- in this case www.google.com -- to look up something.

SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization, which is a process that helps blogs and Web sites get search engine traffic more easily. The search engines create search engine results by looking at certain criteria; the more a website matches that criteria then the higher it will be placed in the results. With the use of SEO, website owners can match their sites criteria and end up higher in the search results.

Dynamic sites and Static sites refers to how frequently the content of a page changes. Many websites have a database program that continually updates the information displayed on the page; this is a dynamic page. When a Web site is static, its content stays constant over a longer time frame. However, there are some websites which contain both static and dynamic pages; for example, while a sites homepage can change frequently, their contact page will most likely remain unchanged for a while.

Common file formats on the internet include PDF's, GIF's, EPS's, JPG's among many others. Pictures or images are commonly transmitted as a JPG image. This indicates that the image is compressed and saved in the JPG file format. There are many different formats to store images in which differ in the file size, and consequently, how compressed the image is which will affect how they display on pages. Larger images or images that need to be high quality, like a picture you intend to print, are usually saved in TIF format. There are many different formats to save text documents in, such as PDF, that compress the text of the files in a way that maintains that integrity of the text but also is minimally sized.

If you're still unsure about the terms we just covered or other terms that you might have heard yet don't understand, simply Google it.

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