Throughout my new series of posts called Simples, I will be using a few terms that you may or may not be familiar with. This post will list these along with a very simple definition and a link to view a more in depth description. This list will be updated on regular basis and you can suggest new definitions by tweeting @leonbarrett with the hashtag #sizdef. Web Browser – The piece of software that is used to view Web Pages. You may only know this as the blue ‘e’ (Internet Explorer) icon on your desktop. There are many (better) browsers that you can use, such as Safari, FireFox...

The web world is full of acronyms and abbreviations, some of which are baffling even to the most seasoned professionals. Do you hear terms such as FTP, PHP, HTML or MySQL thrown around and have know idea what they are? Fear not – this new series called Simples is for you. While I won’t be teaching you these technologies in depth, I will be offering an explanation to give you a basic understanding. In simple and plain english I’ll aim to explain many of the terms Web designers and Developers throw around, so you will no longer have to smile and nod when talking to them. I’m...