Tutorial Seek Development Blog

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Glossary

Here are a list of words and simple definitions of them just incase the average user visits the blog. With this little bit of knowledge, you might be able to understand the project a bit more.

  • Crawler - the component of a search engine that gathers listings by automatically “crawling” the Web - A search engine’s “crawler” (also called a “spider” or “robot”), follows links to web pages. It makes copies of the web pages found and stores these in the search engine’s index.
  • CSS - short for Cascading Style Sheets, a new feature being added to HTML that gives both Web site developers and users more control over how pages are displayed. With CSS, designers and users can create style sheets that define how different elements, such as headers and links, appear. These Style Sheets can then be applied to any Web page.
  • Domain Name - the unique name that identifies an Internet site. ( tutorialseek.com
  • HTML - Hypertext Markup Language is the authoring software language used on the Internet’s World Wide Web. HTML is used for creating World Wide Web pages.
  • Linux - a free open-source operating system based on Unix.
  • MySQL - (pronounced “my ess cue el”) is an open source relational database management system (RDBMS) that uses Structured Query Language (SQL), the most popular language for adding, accessing, and processing data in a database.
  • PHP - 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.
  • Search Engine - a tool, website or resource dedicated to helping you find webpages related to your query.
  • User Agent - a name used when identifying a browser or agent accessing a web page. Example ( Internet Explorer, Safari ).
  • WordPress - excellent open-source and free blogging software that should soon or later take over all its competitors.
Filed under : General
By Jamie
On August 24, 2006
At 10:31 pm
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Tutorial Seek Development Blog » Blog Archive » So why am I here? Says:

[…] Tutorial Seek ( www.tutorialseek.com | TS ) in a nut-shell will be a massive tutorial search engine. Using a similar - yet unique concept from the already world reknown and popular Google.com, the users and visitors of TS will be able to search for a tutorial giving hundreds of categories ranging from Web Development ( PHP / MySQL / C++ ) to any sort of Office Programs such as Microsoft Word and Excel. Web Masters who own the sites in which they write the tutorials will be able to submit their websties for a process called crawling. What this process does is the TS Bot ( not officially named ) will crawl that given website and get the URL’s and links to all those tutorials that the website hosts and adds it to the already massive database of tutorials. Depending on the frequency of updates on the given site - the TS bot will revisit the site maybe a couple times a week and getting new if any tutorials from there. […]

 
 
 
 
Daniel Says:

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Glossary, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

 

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