Internet Terminology

Addware: A type of malware that will make you see popup-adds even when you are visiting websites that don't have that type of advertising. In some cases you will also get an extra (useless) toolbar in Internet Explorer.
Backlinks: Links to your site that is counted by google and other search engines towards your 'link-popularity' and 'page-rank'. See my article on the rel-no-follow tag, for links that do NOT count as backlinks.
Browser: Internet Explorer (that big E on your computer screen) is the most used browser at the moment. Alternative browsers include Firefox and Opera. Firefox is said to be safer and offers add-ons that webdesigners can't do without.
CSS: Cascading Style Sheets: the language used by webdesigners to easily change the look of whole websites with changes in only a few style-documents called stylesheets. In the case of myspace: one line of code can change the look of all headings in your profile, including new ones you added yourself. (more on CSS in myspace profiles: styles & CSS in myspace: colors )
External links (or backlinks): Links from another site to your site. These are counted as backlinks if the page that links to your site is indexed by google AND is trusted by google.
HTML: HyperText Markup Language. The language of the web. Webpages are all written in HTML.
Internal links: Links from pages within your site to other pages within your site.
Internet Explorer: The Big E on your computer screen when you start-up Windows. You probably use it to browse the Internet. It's only one of a selection of browsers, and not the safest. I personally use .
Malware: Software that gets installed on your computer because you clicked 'OK' or 'Install' when you thought you were merely getting to see a video or something. Instead you get lots of popups and a slower computer. Malware is usually hard to get off your computer. If you have it, get your most computer-savvy friend to look your computer over. To prevent malware, don't use Internet Explorer as your browser, but install or Opera. I use Firefox myself. (see spyware and addware)
Outbound links: Links from your site, to another site.
Phishing: Duping Internet users through fake websites of banks and other trusted institutions, in order to steal their passwords. (more on phishing )
SEO: Search Engine Optimisation. The art of getting a website to be found in search engines. See SEO for Dummies.
An SEO (plural SEOs) is a person who specializes in Search Engine Optimization.
SERPS: Search Engine Results PageS. For instance: my page on webdesign currently ranks no. 21 in the SERPS for 'webdesign'. This means that that page is found at the 21nd spot when searching for 'webdesign' in a search engine. When the precise engine is not mentioned, google is usually implied.
Spyware: A type of malware that when installed will steal personal information like credit-card information from your computer.
Tags: Within HTML there is code for hyperlinks, headings and paragraphs (for instance). This code starts with < and ends with >. For instance for a paragraph there is <p> , which starts a paragraph. <p> is called a paragraph-tag. The closing tag is always </...> or in the case of a paragraph: </p> , which tells the browser that the paragraph is ended. See also link and image tags and style tags.