Accessibility is a general term used to describe facilities or amenities to assist people with disabilities. In terms of the World Wide Web, this means making the content of a website accessible to people with a disability, so that such people enjoy the same level of access as those without disabilities. It also means making a website available to [..]

Active Server Pages (ASP) is Microsoft's server-side technology for dynamically-generated web pages that is marketed as an adjunct to Internet Information Server (IIS). The market share of ASP is in decline, with the free open source alternative PHP overtaking it in the server-side scripting market. Programming ASP websites is made easier by v [..]

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The July 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined. Apache HTTP Server is an open source HTTP web server for Unix platforms (BSD, GNU/Linux, and [..]

The term bandwidth is also used, informally, to mean the amount of data that can be transferred through a connection in a given time period. At Keystone Websites, we do our best to optimize websites so that they use as little bandwidth as possible. This means that web pages load faster for the user, and reduce costs for the website owner. [↑]

Commerce is the exchange of something of value between two entities. That "something" may be goods, services, information, money, or anything else the two entities consider to have value. In terms of the World Wide Web, commerce is achieved electronically, in a process called e-commerce. Our Commerce Package has been created to ta [..]

"Content" refers to the text, images, product information, etc., that a website contains. It also refers to the elements of HTML code that describe those items. In modern websites, content is kept completely separate from the visual layout so that it can be accessed by a variety of devices using various screen sizes and resolution [..]

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is a language that is used to describe the stylistic presentation of a structured document written in HTML, XHTML, or XML. The CSS specification is maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). CSS is predominantly used by web page authors to define colors, fonts, layout, and other document characteristics. It is d [..]

A database is an information set organized for flexible searching and utilization. From a website point of view, it can function as the engine for a dynamic site. Small websites can be powered by something as basic as Microsoft's Access database, medium-sized websites are usually powered by the open source MySQL, and enterprise-scale businesse [..]

The Document Object Model is a platform- and language-neutral interface that will allow programs and scripts to dynamically access and update the content, structure and style of documents. The document can be further processed and the results of that processing can be incorporated back into the presented page. [↑]

The Domain Name System, most often known as simply DNS, is a core feature of the Internet. It is a distributed database that handles the mapping between host names (domain names), which are more convenient for humans, and the numerical Internet addresses. The domain name system acts much like an automated phone book, so you can "call&q [..]