Alpha testing is simulated or actual operational testing by potential users/customers or an independent test team at the developers' site. Alpha testing is often employed for off-the-shelf software as a form of internal acceptance testing, before the software goes to beta testing.

The Authorize.Net Payment Gateway can help you accept credit card and electronic check payments quickly and affordably. It accepts a variety of payments, manages the transactions, prevent fraud, sensitive data is stored in the authorize.net PCI compliant data centre and not on the computer. It receives the payments quickly as the funds are automatically deposited into your merchant accounts within days. Authorize.Net provides live technical and account support to merchants, as well as access to online documentation and user guides.

Beta testing comes after alpha testing. Versions of the software, known as beta versions, are released to a limited audience outside of the programming team. The software is released to groups of people so that further testing can ensure the product has few faults or bugs. Sometimes, beta versions are made available to the open public to increase the feedback field to a maximal number of future users.

A blog is a type of website which is usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Blog can also be used as verb meaning to add and maintain content to a blog. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, web pages and other media related to its topic. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs.

A web browser is a software application for retrieving, presenting, and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video, or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users to easily navigate their browsers to related resources. The major web browsers in order of usage according to Net Applications are Windows Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera.

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a style sheet language used to describe the presentation (that is, the look and formatting) of a document written in a markup language. Its most common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, CSS is designed primarily to enable the separation of document content from document presentation, including elements such as the colors, fonts, and layout. This separation can improve content accessibility, provide more flexibility.

Corporate sites provide information to the public about the company rather than transacting business or providing other services as in an ecommerce site or a portal. The phrase is a term of art referring to the purpose of the site rather than its design or specific features, or the nature, market sector, or business structure of the site operator. Nearly every company that interacts with the public has a corporate site or else integrates the same features into its other websites.

A content management system (CMS) is a system used to manage the content of a Web site. (CMS) supports the creation, management, distribution, publishing, and discovery of corporate information. It covers the complete lifecycle of the pages on your site, from providing simple tools to create the content, through to publishing, format management, revision control, and indexing, search and finally to archiving. It also provides the ability to manage the structure of the site, the appearance of the published pages, and the navigation provided to the users.

CubeCart is a fully featured ecommerce shopping cart solution used by over a million store owners around the world. It has been written to run on servers that have PHP & MySQL support. It is designed to allow individuals and businesses sell tangible and digital goods on line. It is easy to modify the look and feel of your store to match your company's branding or to site comfortably beside your existing website due to CubeCart's powerful HTML template system. CubeCart is everything you want from a shopping cart solution, easy to setup and change the design to suit your store, great support and great community.

Dreamweaver allows users to preview websites in locally-installed web browsers. It also has site management tools, such as FTP/SFTP and WebDAV file transfer and synchronization features, the ability to find and replace lines of text or code by search terms and regular expressions across the entire site, and a templating feature that allows single-source update of shared code and layout across entire sites without server-side includes or scripting.

Electronic Commerce, commonly known as (electronic marketing) e-commerce, consists of the buying and selling of products or services over electronic systems such as the Internet and other computer networks. Modern electronic commerce typically uses the World Wide Web at least at some point in the transaction's lifecycle, although it can encompass a wider range of technologies such as e-mail as well. E-commerce enabled websites generally include shopping cart functionality, online credit card transaction processing capability, order tracking, customer information storage, and post transaction customer management modules, while keeping system security at the highest priority. Online customer support feature or catalogue management tools can also be added.

A text editor is a type of program used for editing plain text files. Text editors are often provided with operating systems or software development packages, and can be used to change configuration files and programming language source code

Facebook application is a platform for developers which provide a framework to interact with the core facebook features. These applications are on the most active social network website under the following categories: Alerts, Business, Chat, Classified, Dating, Education, Events, Fashion, File Sharing, Food and Drink, Gaming, Just for Fun, Messaging, Mobile, Money, Music, Photo, Politics, Sports, Travel, Utility, Video. Facebook applications have detailed descriptions, users ratings and reviews, wiki pages, detailed features, screen shots and a battle for its best used applications.

Forum actually known as internet forum or message board is an Online Discussion website. It is the modern equivalent of a traditional bulletin board, and a technological evolution of the dialup bulletin board system. From a technological standpoint, forums or boards are web applications managing user-generated content. People participating in an Internet forum may cultivate social bonds and interest groups for a topic from the discussions.

Google Map is a technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API. It's a web Mapping Application, which offers street maps, a route planner for traveling by foot, bicycle, car, or public transport and an urban business locator for numerous countries around the world. It also can help find the location of businesses.

Hypertext Mark-up Language is the predominant markup language for web pages. It provides a means to describe the structure of text-based information in a document by denoting certain text as links, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc. and to supplement that text with interactive forms, embedded images, and other objects. HTML is written in the form of "tags".

A W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) compliant webpage or web application that provides a focused solution to users and contains no elements that rely on unsupported technologies, such as plug-ins, Flash, or Java. An iPhone web application emulates the look and behavior of the built-in iPhone applications and minimizes the user’s awareness of the browser experience.

Joomla is a free open source content management system for publishing content on the World Wide Web and intranets as well as a Model view controller (MVC) Web Application Development framework. The system includes features such as page caching to improve performance, RSS feeds, printable versions of pages, news flashes, blogs, polls, website searching, and language internationalization.

Paypal is the safer, easiest way to pay online. You can pay without exposing the credit card numbers to the merchants. Paypal allows speedy checkout while shopping online. It is accepted by thousands of businesses worldwide and is the preferred payment method. All your transactions are available in your PayPal history so you can easily track your online spending. There's no charge to open a PayPal account and to transfer money from your bank account to your PayPal account.

Payment Gateway is an e-commerce application which allows the online payment processing system. It allows secure transfer of credit card funds from users on your website to your merchant account. The payment gateway is used to securely encrypt (SSL 128-bit secured forms) data transmitted over the Internet. A Payment Gateway provides credit card processing, billing, reporting and settlement and operational services to acquiring and issuing banks, manages the process of transferring authorized and captured credit card funds between different financial accounts such as the merchant's company checking account.

Photoshop is a powerful graphics editing program also known as a DPP, Desktop Publishing Program. It is a popular image changing software package. It is widely used by photographers for changing photographs (fix colors, reduce noise, add effects, fix brightness/contrast) and by graphic designers and Web designers to create and change images for web pages .Developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation software, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems.

Quality assurance refers to planned and systematic production processes that provide confidence in a product's suitability for its intended purpose. It is a set of activities intended to ensure that products satisfy customer requirements in a systematic, reliable fashion. Two key principles characteristics of QA: "fit for purpose" (the product should be suitable for the intended purpose) and "right first time" (mistakes should be eliminated).

Resolution is the term used to describe the number of dots, or pixels, used to display an image. Higher resolutions mean that more pixels are used to create the image, resulting in a crisper, cleaner image. The display, or resolution on a monitor, is composed of thousands of pixels or dots. This display is indicated by a number combination, such as 800 x 600. This indicates that there are 800 dots horizontally across the monitor, by 600 lines of dots vertically, equaling 480,000 dots that make up the image you see on the screen.

SMS gateway is a device or service offering SMS transit, transforming messages to mobile network traffic from other media, or vice versa, allowing transmission or receipt of SMS messages with or without the use of a mobile phone. Typical use of a gateway would be to forward simple e-mail to a mobile phone recipient.

Microsoft Virtual Earth is now known as Bing Maps for Enterprise is a geospatial mapping platform produced by Microsoft. It allows developers to create applications that layer location-relevant data on top of the Bing Maps map imagery. This includes imagery taken from satellite sensors, aerial cameras (including "Bird's Eye" aerial imagery taken at 45 degree angle view to show building facades and entrances) as well as 3D city models and terrain.

Wiki is a piece of server software that allows users to freely create and edit web page content using any Web browser. Wiki has a simple syntax for creating new pages and crosslink's between internal pages on fly and supports hyperlinks. Wiki is unusual among group communication mechanisms, in that it allows the organization of contributions to be edited in addition to the content itself. Having people share information on the wiki can also ease overloaded in-boxes and cut down on e-mail exchanges between co-workers.

WordPress is a free and open source blog publishing application and Content Management System. WordPress has a templating system, which includes widgets that can be rearranged without editing PHP or HTML code, as well as themes that can be installed and switched between. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also be edited for more advanced customizations. WordPress also features integrated link management; a search engine-friendly, clean permalink structure; the ability to assign nested, multiple categories to articles; multiple author capability; and support for tagging of posts and articles. Automatic filters that provide for proper formatting and styling of text in articles (for example, converting regular quotes to smart quotes) are also included. WordPress also supports the Trackback and Pingback standards for displaying links to other sites that have themselves linked to a post or article. Finally, WordPress has a rich plugin architecture which allows users and developers to extend its functionality beyond the features that come as part of the base install.