OFPv2 Site Glossary

This page contains at least expansions of abbreviations and acronyms (if not full definitions) and other words, phrases and terms with which the reader may not be conversant.

Abbreviations and Acronyms will have the "extended name" (the phrase or words they stand for) listed first followed by the definition.

PLEASE NOTE: Unless otherwise noted, the definitions in question are MY take on what each term means. In other words, they may or may not be actual definitions.

If you find any terms or abbreviations/acronyms on this site that you believe should be or that you wish were here, please be sure to let me know. (Include the item and the page on which it was located, please. - Thank you for your help.)

aka

Also Known As.
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ASAP

As soon as possible.
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asinine

From Answers.com at http://www.answers.com/asinine&r=67 - dumb; utterly stupid; silly; foolish; unintelligent; fatuous, inane, mindless, vacuous (need I go on?)
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bankruptcy

"A federally authorized procedure by which a debtor — an individual, corporation, or municipality — is relieved of total liability for its debts by making court-approved arrangements for their partial repayment."

Some people don't realize there are two distinct types of bankruptcy. With either, individuals can normally keep exempt assets, like home, car, common household goods. Chapters 7 and 11 can be filed by the creditors, making it an involuntary bankruptcy. This requires a lot of creditors or a lot of debt and the debtor can respond, before the bankruptcy goes through.

• Liquidation
  • Chapter 7 - A trustee collects and sells non-exempt assets, sells them, and distributes the proceeds to creditors in a priority described in the bankruptcy code. Creditors usually only get some of what they're owed, and some get nothing at all. Once liquidation and distribution are completed:
    • for Individuals - the court can discharge any remaining debt (meaning nobody else gets ANYTHING).
    • for Corporations - it goes defunct ("goes away") - any remaining debt can no longer be collected as the entity that owed it doesn't exist any more.
• Reorganization or Rehabilitation - the debtor has income enough to make the plan feasible. They're also allowed to keep some nonexempt assets. The debtor MUST make payments based on a reorganization plan approved by the court. While the plan is in effect, creditors can't pursue debts not in the provisions of the plan. HOWEVER, if the debtor doesn't follow the plan, the court COULD order Liquidation (see above). If the debtor is successful completing the plan, the rest of the debt is usually discharged.
  • Chapter 11 - Usually for individuals with complex or excessive debts or large commercial entities, like corporations;
  • Chapter 13 - Usually for individuals with smaller debts;
  • Chapter 12 is for debt-ridden family farmers who may qualify for Chapters 11 or 13
  • Chapter 9 is for local governments

Source: Answers.com - Bankruptcy Off Site New Window, Legal Encyclopedia section

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Bill Sanders (aka BS, William D. Sanders, WDS, BigDaddyBS, BigDaddyWDS, LE, LYAO Editor)

Bill Sanders (BS or WDS), Owner/Designer/Developer/Editor of the Orange Frog Productions website and various websites with the OFP logo, (aka -LE and -LYAO Editor) - Editor of the LYAO Joke-Letter and Owner/Designer of the LYAO-Online website (subweb of Orange Frog Productions). Some of my other aliases include BigDaddyBS - the "BS" is for "Bill Sanders", not "Bullsh-t"!) and BigDaddyWDS (either can be with or without caps), especially in messaging and emails. (Apparently, there was another BigDaddyBS around, at one time. I don't know that he still is. Hopefully, you'll be able to tell the difference!) NOTE: Sometimes I will send responses to my LYAO mailing list before publishing them on this site. Most of my "Rumor" and other email commentary and bracketed items will probably be under either "-LE" or "-LYAO Editor". I saw little reason to change this, especially since I have this glossary entry.
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bill of goods

From answers.com at http://www.answers.com/topic/bill-of-goods: "Informal. A plan, promise, or offer, especially one that is dishonest or misleading: “The salesman himself . . . is often depicted as the ultimate sucker, who has fallen for his own cheesy bill of goods” (Walter Goodman)"
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bogus

From answers.com at http://www.answers.com/bogus&r=67: "Counterfeit or fake; not genuine: bogus money; bogus tasks."
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BTW

By the way
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CSS

Cascading Style Sheet(s)
CSS is the language for specifying the presentation aspects (formatting and style) of a webpage. It allows for the separation of presentation and content of a page. The idea is that if a site designer wants to change all of a given format, it only needs to be done in one place. "Style Sheets" are used in almost all publishing so all of the items in a given publication will appear "standardized" (ie: look the same). The "cascading" aspect of the name refers to the fact that if a style is defined more than once, anything defined in the second definition that's in the first will be replaced, and anything that is NOT in the first will be added. This can occur within a single style-sheet, or styles can also be defined within the webpage, itself, and cascade in the same way. User Style Sheets may also be defined. For more on User Style Sheets, see http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/f/blcssfaquser.htm.
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et al

Latin: et alli
From answers.com at http://www.answers.com/et+al.&r=67: and others.
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div (or <div>)

HTML tag: Division
From html-reference.com at http://www.html-reference.com/DIV.htm: "The <DIV> tag is used to divide a document up into artificial sections ... [I]t divides a page into sections which can be manipulated ... by using their name ..." or a style,
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FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions
From answers.com at http://www.answers.com/faq&r=67: "A list of frequently asked questions and their answers about a given subject." My FAQ Central contains not only questions I have been asked, but questions I wanted the answers to, myself. Most of the time, the answers are "as I understand it".
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FCC

Federal Communications Commission
From http://www.fcc.gov/aboutus.html - The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an independent United States government agency, directly responsible to Congress. The FCC was established by the Communications Act of 1934 and is charged with regulating interstate and international communications by radio, television, wire, satellite and cable. The FCC's jurisdiction covers the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. possessions.
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FDA

US Food and Drug Administration, an agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services
From http://www.fda.gov/opacom/morechoices/mission.html - "The FDA is responsible for protecting the public health by assuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, medical devices, our nation’s food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation. The FDA is also responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medicines and foods more effective, safer, and more affordable; and helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medicines and foods to improve their health."
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flame

My intent in using this term is (from answers.com (hacker slang section) at http://www.answers.com/flame) - "1. vi. To post an email message intended to insult and provoke; 2. vi. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude. 3. vt. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people."

For example: Many people are passionately anti-Microsoft for various reasons, and many are passionate about the editors and browsers they use. Any time someone extols a positive about Microsoft products on boards and blogs, they get "flamed" by various people (I assume those I've just described... COULD be some who just want to start a fight, though.) I, personally, used Netscape's browsers until they were sold to AOL and work REQUIRED us to use Microsoft's Internet Explorer both there and to log in from home to work. After some time, I gave up on Netscape's browser and went with Explorer. Since a goodly number of people in the world use it, I don't see why there should be such an uproar against it. If you don't like it, don't use it. Just don't "flame" those who DO like and use it. (You know... DIVERSITY!) And, yes... I've tried Firefox. It DOES have some good features, but I don't like the way it renders many of the pages I use. (My opinion... not a flame... I still have it on my desktop and use it from time-to-time.)
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FTC

The (US) Federal Trade Commission
From http://www.ftc.gov/ftc/mission.htm - "The Federal Trade Commission enforces a variety of federal antitrust and consumer protection laws. The Commission seeks to ensure that the nation's markets function competitively, and are vigorous, efficient, and free of undue restrictions. The Commission also works to enhance the smooth operation of the marketplace by eliminating acts or practices that are unfair or deceptive. In general, the Commission's efforts are directed toward stopping actions that threaten consumers' opportunities to exercise informed choice. Finally, the Commission undertakes economic analysis to support its law enforcement efforts and to contribute to the policy deliberations of the Congress, the Executive Branch, other independent agencies, and state and local governments when requested."
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FYI

For Your Information
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GVW

Abbreviation (theirs) of "(The) Greatest Vitamin in the World"
A product sold in infomercials by Don Lapre. If this abbreviation is used on any other page, more information can be found at the OFPv2 - SSFF Section, Shams/Infomercial Info - Health-Related - Don Lapre and The Greatest Vitamin in  the World page.
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HTML

Hypertext Markup Language
The "language of the web". "A markup language used to structure text and multimedia documents and to set up hypertext links between documents, used extensively on the World Wide Web." (from http://www.answers.com/html&r=67 - see the link for more.) Actually, while there are millions of pages written in simple to complex HTML, other markup and programming languages are used for an increasing number of pages.
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IP

Internet Protocol (Address)
From Wikipedia.org at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address - "An IP address can also be thought of as the equivalent of a street address or a phone number ... for a computer or other network device on the internet. Just as each street address and phone number uniquely identifies a building or telephone, an IP address can uniquely identify a specific computer or other network device on a network."
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link (aka "hyperlink" or "web link")

From w3c.org, (the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), who "develop interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential.") at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#anchors (note: may be too technical for non-web authors) - "A connection from one web resource to another." It is the "basic hypertext construct." These are the items you click (buttons, images, text, etc.) to "navigate the web". As noted, they "link" one website to another, one web page in a site to another within the same site, one part of a large page to another part of the same page (like FAQs), email addresses to "mailto:" code, etc., (You "clicked a link" to get here!)
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Linkbar

A set of site navigation links in a "bar" form. On some sites, they appear as drop-down menus. (My definition, anyway!)
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LLC

Limited Liability Company

From Answers.com at http://www.answers.com/Limited%20Liability%20Corporation - Legal Encyclopedia section - "A non-corporate business whose owners actively participate in the organization's management and are protected against personal liability for the organization's debts and obligations.

The limited liability company (LLC) is a hybrid legal entity that has characteristics of a corporation and a partnership. An LLC provides its owners with corporate-like protection against personal liability. It is, however, usually treated as a non-corporate business organization for tax purposes."

Also, please see the Wikipedia section.
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Microsoft Internet Explorer (aka IE or MSIE)

Microsoft's Internet Explorer - Microsoft's entry into the browser world. Allows you to see internet pages. Rivals include Firefox, Oprah and others. NOTE: There are also aural browsers for those who cannot see.
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natural

Produced by nature; not artificial or manmade
From Answers.com at http://www.answers.com/natural, Thesaurus section (adjective or "adj." definition)
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nested

Setting one item inside a like item
In programming, there are many instances of "nested IF" statements, kind of like: "If object = tree, If leaves = 5-points palm-shaped, tree = maple". Yes, I know this is an extremely simplified nested if, but this way, more people will understand. In creating webpages, you can "nest" different tags for different parts of the page. For example most default "nested unordered (normally bulleted) lists" will have a "disc" for the first level, a circle for the second level (a list nested inside the first one) and a solid square for the third level (a new list, nested inside the second). Think of nesting like those Russian dolls, where you open one to reveal another; open it to reveal another, etc.
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OFP

Orange Frog Productions
The business and personal website of Bill Sanders located at www.orangefrogproductions.com/
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OFPv2 (aka: OFP2, v2)

Orange Frog Productions version 2
This is the second iteration (version) of the Orange Frog Production website  (see OFP, above). The website was redesigned 06/2006
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PDF (or Adobe PDF)

Portable Document Format
Invented by Adobe Systems, their PDF format is a standard document format used around the world. Documents of almost all types (including images and documents with images, etc.) can be converted to, or "printed" into the PDF format, and it will look the same for everyone. With Adobe Reader, anyone, anywhere can read (or print) a PDF. See Adobe Portable Document Format for more information.
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pre (or <pre>)

HTML tag: Preformatted
From html-reference.com at http://www.html-reference.com/PRE.htm: "Shows preformatted text as it is included, with exactly specified whitespace, blank lines and such."
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Sidebar

In publishing, a sidebar is an inset story, sometimes defined with a different color palette than the main page. On the web, sidebars can appear on either the left or right side of the main content of a page, and normally contain navigation, pictures, links, definitions, mini-articles, etc. On this site, the sidebar is on the left and contains a couple of pictures, a couple of image buttons, and site navigation buttons to the main sections of the site.
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snarf

Basically (my definition): grab or take.
From Answers.com at http://www.answers.com/snarf, Hacker's Slang section - "To acquire, with little concern for legal forms or politesse (but not quite by stealing). 'They were giving away samples, so I snarfed a bunch of them.'” or maybe (another version) "Those email addresses were just sitting around on the website, waiting for someone to click them, so I 'snarfed' a bunch of them."
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spam-bot

An automated program designed to "crawl" or "spider" the web designed to harvest (retrieve) email addresses from websites for spammers. See Answers.com entry for web crawlers at http://www.answers.com/topic/web-crawler for more.
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SSFF (or ssff)

Orange Frog Productions' Scams, Shams & More Flim-Flams Section
Ok... Just to save typing, and taking up about half a line of content each time it's used, I have begun using this abbreviation for this section. It's available in the navigation buttons in the left sidebar and in the bottom linkbar, as well as a number of other places scattered throughout the site. Oh... And it's home page is available here, too: Orange Frog Productions v2 - Scams, Shams & More Flim-Flams.
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SSI / SSIs

Server-Side Includes
A way to tell your web server to insert various things at various points on the webpage. They are "included" on the page by the server when the page loads, so you should never see them unless there's an error or you look at the page source and they are demarked. NOTE: Online documentation and "examples" on Server-Side Includes are a bit sketchy in some of the details. It took me a number of tries before I realized that the page itself must be named with an ".SHTML" extension (at least for GoDaddy) and not the included parts. Ok... Maybe I'm dumb, but I currently (06/2006) have a website up and running that's set up the other way... And I tested it pretty much the same way I did this site. I don't know why it's working correctly. (I'm gonna have to change that, I guess!)
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subweb

From htmlgoodies.com at http://www.htmlgoodies.com/beyond/webmaster/article.php/3473371 (see link for a full article on the differences between a subweb and a sub-domain) - Technically, I guess, there's no such thing as a subweb. However, since I use FrontPage, there is. (Make sense?) A subweb is really a folder in a FrontPage web that's been defined as another web, and FrontPage handles it as such (opening a new presence to edit it). This allows multiple FrontPage themes (which I don't use) on a given site. LYAO-Online is forwarded to http://lyao.orangefrogproductions.com which is technically a sub-domain of OFP (created through my GoDaddy account). There are those who believe that "sub-web" (subweb) and sub-domain should be used interchangeably I don't know. All I know is I called it a subweb, so that's the way it will stay (for now).
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USA (or US)

United States of America
For more, see information at http://www.answers.com/topic/united-states.
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vs (or v or vs.)

Versus
From answers.com at http://www.answers.com/versus&r=67. Against or opposed. In most of my cases I an basically saying "this vs that" or "this v that", which means "this as opposed to that", though when used in quoted material it may literally mean "this against that", as in a contest or legal brief.
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WYSIWYG

What You See is What You Get
From answers.com at http://www.answers.com/wysiwyg&r=67 (see link for more) - (pronounced "wiz-ee-wig") - "Relating to or being a word-processing or desktop publishing system in which the screen displays text exactly as it will be printed." In the case of FrontPage, the coding of the page is all "behind-the-scenes", and what you see as you are creating the page, is what the user will see. In some cases, it also means that the webpage will print the same, if the user or printer has the correct fonts, though not always. On this website, there's a Print CSS which converts all the pretty colors of text and backgrounds to black and white, and only certain parts will print. Please note that the idea will be that the sidebar, breadcrumbs and linkbar should not print - This is "as designed". Most people only want the content, anyway. Also note that the graphics and pictures will still print in color - providing, of course, you have a color printer.
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This site, all text and graphics (unless otherwise noted) on it
were designed, developed and published by Bill Sanders of Orange Frog Productions.
It and it's CSS was validated and complies with both the: CSS and HTML 4.01 validators from W3C.
NOTE: All CSS validates except the "New Window Buttons" - Their CSS includes  some invalid code (ie: hacks)
and warnings for using transparent backgrounds when color foregrounds defined.
Copyright © 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 by Bill Sanders / Full site last modified: July 10, 2006