W3 -- World Wide Web
W3C -- World Wide Web Consortium
WAI -- Web Accessibility Initiative
WAIS -- Wide Area Information System
WAN -- Wide Area Network
WAP -- Wireless Application Protocol
WCAG -- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
Web Page Design -- The process of design, layout, template creation of Web pages for the purpose of creating a Web site or Web presence. Web page design differs from print design in that Web pages must download quickly and be optimized for various screen resolutions and bit types.
Web Site -- A site (location) on the World Wide Web. Each Web site contains a home page, which is the first document users see when they enter the site. The site might also contain additional documents and files. Each site is owned and managed by an individual, company or organization.
Web Services -- The term Web services describes a standardized way of integrating Web-based applications using the XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI open standards over an Internet protocol backbone. XML is used to tag the data, SOAP is used to transfer the data, WSDL is used for describing the services available and UDDI is used for listing what services are available. Used primarily as a means for businesses to communicate with each other and with clients, Web services allow organizations to communicate data without intimate knowledge of each other's IT systems behind the firewall. Unlike traditional client/server models, such as a Web server/Web page system, Web services do not provide the user with a GUI. Web services instead share business logic, data and processes through a programmatic interface across a network. The applications interface, not the users. Developers can then add the Web service to a GUI (such as a Web page or an executable program) to offer specific functionality to users. Web services allow different applications from different sources to communicate with each other without time-consuming custom coding, and because all communication is in XML, Web services are not tied to any one operating system or programming language. For example, Java can talk with Perl, Windows applications can talk with UNIX applications.
WIMP -- Windows, Icons, Menus and Pointing Devices
Windows -- Windows is the operating system from Microsoft. The Windows source code is proprietary. that is, only Microsoft programmers can see it and work on it. This makes Windows stable and permanent, but it requires a commitment to Microsoft and the way technology is defined by them.
WINDOWS NT -- Windows New Technology
WML -- Wireless Markup Language (file.wml)
World Wide Web -- Long for WWW, a system of Internet servers that support specially formatted documents. The documents are formatted in a script called HTML (HyperText Markup Language) that supports links to other documents, as well as graphics, audio, and video files. This means you can jump from one document to another simply by clicking on hot spots. Not all Internet servers are part of the World Wide Web.
WTL -- WebTrendsLive (Web Metrics/Statistics)
WWW -- World Wide Web
WYSINWOG -- What You See Is Not What Others Get
WYSIWYG --
Pronounced WIZ-zee-wig. Short for what you see is what you get. A WYSIWYG application is one that enables you to see on the display screen exactly what will appear when the document is printed. This differs, for example, from word processors that are incapable of displaying different fonts and graphics on the display screen even though the formatting codes have been inserted into the file. WYSIWYG is especially popular for desktop publishing.
