Find Your Palette

(Please bear with me... I am still finishing the site, and these initial blog posts will be finished in the next few weeks). One of the things I'm setting out to do with this website is to be a liaison between the web community and the public at large, because let's face it... some of us have communication issues.

I thought a good place to start would be to simply explain, for the lay-person, what all of the different terms you hear floating around mean.

The actual body of a web page:

HTML / XML / XHTML
ASP / PHP
Javascript

The clothing:

CSS
JPG / GIF / PNG

The stuff that goes into websites to make them big and strong:

Content Management
Joomla / Wordpress / Drupal
SQL

What websites use to talk to one another:

RSS
Social Networking
AJAX

What websites use to make themselves more attractive than the others:

Flash
jQuery