Web content acronyms & abbreviations

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Last revised: 26 February 2008

Here are some the more common acronyms and abbreviations associate with the web

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A  Single A (web accessibility rating)
AA  Double A (web accessibility rating)
AAA  Triple A (web accessibility rating)
AI  Artificial Intelligence
ALT  Alternative
AM  Asset Management
API  Application Programming Interface
ASCII  American Standard Code for Information Interchange
ASP Active Server
AVI  Audio Video Interleaved
BPM Business Process Management
BPR Business Process Redesign
Bps Bits-Per-Second
CGI Common Gateway Interface
CM Content Management
CMS Content Management System
CRM Customer Relationship Management
CSS Cascading Style Sheet
DDA Disability Discrimination Act
DHTML Dynamic HTML
DM Document Management
DMS Document Management System
DNS Domain Name Server
DTD Document Type Definition
EUT End User Training
FOIA Freedom of Information Act
FTP File Transfer Protocol
Gb Gigabyte
Gbps Gigabits per second
GIF Graphic Interchange Format
GUI Graphical User Interface HCI Human Computer Interface
HDML Handheld Devices Markup Language
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
HTTPS Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure
I/O Input/Output
ICT Information and Communication Technology
ID Information Design
IDA Information Dissemination and Access
IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IIS Internet Information Server
IM Information Management
IM Instant Messenging
IMAP Internet Mail-Access Protocol
IMS Information Management Systems
IP Internet Protocol
IP-VPN Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network
IS Information Systems
ISDN Integrated Service Digital Network
ISM Integrated System Management
SO International Organization for Standardization
ISP Internet Service Provider
ISS Independent Software Supplier
IT Information Technology
J2EE Java 2 Enterprise Edition
JPEG Joint Photographic Experts Group
JSP Java Server Pages
KB Kilobyte Kbps Kilobits per second
KM Knowledge Management
LAN Local Area Network LCM Learning Content Management
MAPI Mailbox Application Programming Interface
MB Megabyte
MIME Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
MP3 MPEG-1 Audio Layer-3 MPEG Moving Picture Expert GroupM
PAP Password Authentication Protocol
PDA Personal Digitial Assistant
PDF Portable Document Format
PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor
RAM Random Access Memory
RSS Really Simply Syndication
SE Search Engine
SGML Standard Generalized Markup Language
SLA Service Level Agreement
SME Subject Matter Experts
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SQL Standard Query Language
SSL Secure Socket Layer
TCP Transmission Control Protocol
TCP/IP Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol
TIFF Tagged Image File Format
TTW Through-The-Web
URI Uniform Resource Identifier
URL Uniform Resource Locator
VoIP Voice over Internet Protocol
VPN Virtual Private Network
W3C World Wide Web Consortium
WAI Web Accessability Initiative
WAN Wide Area Network
WAP Wireless Application Protocol
WCM Web Content Management
WCAG Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
WFMC Work Flow Management Coalition
WML Wireless Markup Language
WSDL Web services description language
WWW World Wide Web
WYSIWYG What You See Is What You Get
XHTML Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language
XML Extended Mark-up Language
XSLT Extensible Stylesheet Language (Transformations)