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 Black Box

An application or parts of an application in which outside developers can not access the underlying machinery to see how it works and/or modify its function. Usually found in proprietary software.

 CMS

A Content Management System is a web application which allows web designers and developers to worry about the machinery and styles driving a website while the actual content itself can be added and edited by non-technical content providers.

 CSS

Cascading Style Sheets - Where HTML/XHTML define the content of a web page CSS is a language used to describe how to present the content. The colors used, size of fonts, position of elements, etc.

 HTML

HyperText Markup Language - a text markup language used to used to define the content of web pages which is then interpreted by your browser to render the page you see.. It is used generically to refer to both HTML and it's replacement - XHTML.

 WYSIWYG

What You See Is What You Get - a type of editing where you can see what the end product is going to look like. As of yet there are no WYSIWYG HTML editors that can consistently produce clean, efficient code.

 XHTML

EXtensible HyperText Markup Language - an XML standard compliant markup language used to define the content of web pages which is then interpreted by your browser to render the page you see. XHTML is the replacement of HTML.

 XML

EXtensible Markup Language - a specification for defining custom markup languages. Examples of XML languages are XHTML, RSS, MathML, SVG, etc.