- Packet Switching - Process whereby messages are broken into finite-size packets that always are accepted by the network. The message packets are forwarded to the other party over a multitude of different circuit paths. At the other end of the circuit, the packets are reassembled into the message, which is then passed onto the receiving terminal.
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- Page - An HTML document which may contain text, images, and other on-line elements. It may be static or dynamically generated. It may be a stand-alone HTML document, or one which is contained within a frame.
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- Page Builder - Page builders will receive training and guidelines for building pages for BC Web sites. They are responsible for understanding how to create, maintain, and move a site from development to production using Web IT; adding content to Web pages using a Web authoring tool such as Dream weaver; and coordinating time off and training with backups.
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- Page views - The number of times users request a page.
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- Paging - In computer operating systems, paging memory allocation algorithms divide computer memory into small partitions, and allocate memory using a page as the smallest building block.
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- Parking - (domain name)
A term used to describe for temporarily placing a record in a name server for later use.
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- Password - A string of characters that a user must enter to gain access to a resource that is password-protected.
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- Password Manager - Your Password Manager gives you the ability to control who can view your site or various areas within your site, such as a folder or sub domain. You can use this tool to create user accounts that can then be assigned access privileges on your site.
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- Password protection - A password is a secret combination of characters (letters and numbers) that allow the user to access Web pages or files on a computer. It ensures that unauthorized users do not access to the Web Pages, or files on the computer.
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- Pay Pal - Pay Pal is an Internet business which allows the transfer of money between email users, avoiding traditional paper methods such as checks/cheques and money orders. Pay Pal also performs payment processing for e-commerce vendors, auction sites, and other corporate users, for which they charge a fee. Corporate headquarters are in San Jose, California. More details here.
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- Pay-Per-Click - (PPC)
An advertising pricing model in which advertisers pay agencies based on how many consumers clicked on a promotion. Condemned by advertisers and agencies alike for its many marketing vagaries and technical loopholes.
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- Payment gateway - A combination of software and hardware that provides an interface to the bank card processing network.
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- Perl - (Practical Extraction and Report Language)
Practical Extraction and Reporting Language is an open source server side programming language extensively used for web scripts and to process data passed via the Common Gateway Interface from HTML forms etc. Perl scripts are not embedded within HTML pages and do not download to the web browser but reside on the server. They execute by being triggered from commands within HTML pages or other scripts and may produce HTML output that does download to the web browser.
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- Personal Site Search - Personal Site Search is an add-on available to all users that allows you to install a search engine on your pages. Your visitors can use this search engine to find information they're seeking on your site. With Personal Site Search, you can also customize the search results page that appears when a visitor completes a search.
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- PGP - (Pretty Good Privacy)
PGP is an electronic privacy program which helps you ensure privacy by letting you encrypt files and e-mail. The encryption technology employed by PGP is very strong. PGP was created by Phil Zimmermann, and depends on public key cryptography for its effectiveness. Public key cryptography is a procedure in which users exchange "keys" to send secure documents to each other.
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- Pharming - It involves Trojans programs, worms, or other virus technologies that attack the Internet browser address bar and is much more sophisticated than phishing. When users type in a valid URL they are redirected to the criminals' websites instead of the intended valid website.
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- Phishing - Comes from the analogy that internet scammers are using email bait to fish for passwords and financial data from the sea of internet users. Since hackers have a tendency of replacing "f" with "ph", the term phishing was derived. The term has evolved over the years to include not only obtaining user account details but access to all personal and financial data.
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- PHP - (Personal Home Page Tools)
The PHP Hypertext Preprocessor is a programming language that allows web developers to create dynamic content that interacts with databases. PHP is basically used for developing web based software applications. See official website.
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- PHP-Nuke - PHP-Nuke is a web based automated news publishing and content management system (a 'nuke') based on PHP and MySQL. The system is fully controlled using a web-based user interface. PHP-Nuke was originally a fork of the that ware news portal system.
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- PhpBB - PhpBB is a popular free and open source forum system using the PHP scripting language and supporting a variety of database management systems including MySQL, PostgreSQL, MSSQL, Microsoft Access and, with modification, Oracle.
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- PhpMyAdmin - It is a popular, powerful web-based interface for administering MySQL databases. It is open source, written in PHP, and is among the better tools available for working with MySQL databases. See official website.
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- Pine - (Program for Internet News and E-mail)
A mail user agent for reading, sending, and managing electronic messages. On-line help is always available and it includes MIME and an address book.
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- Ping - (Packet Internet Groper)
A program used to test whether a particular network destination is online, by sending an Internet control message protocol (ICMP) echo request and waiting for a response.
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- Pixel - Short for Picture Element. The basic unit from which a video or computer picture is made. Essentially a dot with a given color and brightness value. The more pixels the higher the resolution of the picture.
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- PKZIP - A software program that bundles a group of files together which it then compresses into a single file for future use. Think of it as stuffing your items into a box.
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- Plug-in - Is a program added to a web browser in order to add multimedia capabilities. E.g. Flash plug-in, Java plug-in.
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- Point of Presence - (POP)
A POP is the location of an access point to the Internet. A POP necessarily has a unique Internet (IP) address. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) has a point-of-presence on the Internet. A POP usually includes routers, digital/analog call aggregators, servers, and frequently frame relay or ATM switches
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- Port - In computing, a port (derived from seaport) is usually an interface through which data are sent and received. An exception is a software port (derived from transport), which is software that has been "transported" to another computer system.
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- Portal - A Web site or service that offers a broad array of resources and services, such as email, forums, search engines, and on-line shopping malls. The first Web portals were online services, such as AOL, that provided access to the Web, but by now most of the traditional search engines have transformed themselves into Web portals to attract and keep a larger audience.
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- PostgreSQL - A database provided with Packet Hound that resides on the appliance and can be used instead of a SQL or MSDE database. See official website.
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- Posting - Can refer to a message or article that appears on a newsgroup or message board system, or the act of sending an electronic message to a newsgroup or message board.
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- PPP - (Point to Point Protocol)
An Internet protocol for connecting computers over a serial line.
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- Propagation - The process of updating a domain across the world's Internet servers. Propagation can take between three to five days.
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- Protocol - The 'language' spoken between computers to help them exchange information. More technically, it is a formal description of message formats and the rules that two computers must follow in order to exchange those messages.
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- Proxy - Server placed between a user's machine and the Internet. It can act as a firewall to provide protection and as a cache area to speed up Web page display.
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- PSTN - (Public Switched Telephone Network)
The public switched telephone network (PSTN) is the concatenation of the world's public circuit-switched telephone networks, in much the same way that the Internet is the concatenation of the world's public IP-based packet-switched networks. Originally a network of fixed-line analog telephone systems, the PSTN is now almost entirely digital, and now includes mobile as well as fixed telephones.
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- Publish - The process of making a web public on the World Wide Web or an intranet by copying all of its pages and files to the Web server connected to the Internet or the local area network.
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- Pull media - Pull media, the content is passed to the user only on request.
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- Pull-down menu - A menu that is pulled down from a client application's Title Bar.
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- Push media - Push media is used to denote such media distribution mechanism where a content list is shown to the user and the user can select what (s)he wants.
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- Python - A scripting language. Designed for simplicity and clarity. Less widely used that Perl, however, but is a good choice for large programs. More details about the language here.
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