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- Scalability -- A website's capacity and its range of components -- connectivity, servers, database, etc. It grows as the number of visitors or number of transactions expands.
- Search Engine -- A directory that is online and is employed by people in order to track down certain information, websites, and/or other resources that are online.
- Secure Electronic Transactions -- An open commerce standard protocol made to secure the transferring of information about payments via the Internet and/or other electronic networks.
- Secure Server ID -- A web server that is recognized, acknowledged and identified as a result of its own digital certificate. An SSL secure server id, such as a SSL secure server, encrypts all the data that is transmitted through the process of encryption to and from customer machines, providing Internet security and online security with SSL encryption and digital certificates.
- Secure Sockets Layer -- A secure session protocol specified by Netscape. SSL Secure Sockets Layer HTTPs uses SSL encryption to encrypt and cipher data that is sent to the web server from a user. It is a "secure server", such as a SSL secure web server that provides Internet security. It also decrypts the pages that are returned to the user.
- Server -- A computer or PC that is on the Internet or in a network and deals with the appeals of other computers that are, in this sense, called "clients."
- SET -- See Secure Electronic Transactions.
- Shareware -- Similar to freeware, shareware is software which can be downloaded, copied, dispersed, and used without the creator's permission or a payment of any kind upfront. Most shareware developers, however, expect to be paid if an end-user keeps using a shareware program beyond an initial trial period. They expect payment even though they don't receive any upfront payment for their programs. Freeware is different because it is software that may be dispersed and used without limits.
- Shopping Cart -- A program allowing visiting shoppers at an online store to choose a product while still continuing to shop. Shoppers collect their purchases, as many as desired, in the shopping cart before having to make payment or deal with the details of shipping and handling. A lot of shopping cart programs also permit shoppers that want to leave to return and continue shopping later. These programs can also get reusable data from previous orders, shipping and payment information.
- Smart Card -- A device the size of a credit card that holds a microprocessor which is embedded. The microprocessor stores identification information, digital cash and other sorts of data.
- SOAP -- Simple Object Access Protocol. A communication protocol that allows functions to swap data across the Internet, back and forth to each other independent of platform, via HTTP.
- Spam or Spamming -- A routine that is thought to be annoying and inappropriate by most Internet users, spamming is the deed of sending e-mail to large numbers of people who haven't requested the messages and don't have any relationship with the sender, business or personal.
- Spider -- A particular kind of Bot used by certain search engines in order to visit websites and gather information on each site in order to make the search engine's database more accurate and precise and more complete and comprehensive.
- Spot Market -- Where unplanned purchases and sales take place.
- SQL -- Structured Query Language. A language employed to construct queries in order to explore for and recover particular database data.
- SSL -- See Secure Sockets Layer. Secure Sockets Layer, SSL, relates to many topics of Internet security and online security: encryption, SSL encryption, 256 Bit encryption, SSL digital certificates, digital certificates, 256 Bit SSL certificates, secure SSL certificates, secure SSL authentication, SSL secure server, and SSL certificate.
- Static Page -- A web page that is always displaying unchanged content each and every time it is brought up. Static page content is "hard coded" in the underlying HTML. It can only be altered by editing it manually. Static page is in contrast to a Dynamic Page.
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