Glossary
0-25mb (Megabytes) of web space: Web space is the actual amount of space used on a sever for your web site files. Most static sites will not exceed 25mb but if you have a lot if imagery then this will use up more space. If you are selling products and displaying images on your site, then as the product range grows, so will your usage of web space.

0-2gb (Gigabytes) of bandwidth: Bandwidth is often used as a synonym for data transfer rate - the amount of data that can be carried from one point to another in a given time period (usually a second). In web site terms, this is the amount of usage your web site attracts. If you have a successful marketing campaign to back up your state of the art web site, before you know it, you will be getting hundred and thousands of hits and you site will be using more and more bandwidth to transfer the information on the internet.

Tracking: Tracking is a way of monitoring lots of information about your web site. You have invested time and money getting your web site where it is today, now you need some returns. Tracking can be in many forms and varied amounts of detail. You can track how many people have 'hit' on your site, or maybe you want to be a bit more specific. Maybe you want to know about hits on individual pages. Vanilla Active can monitor your product range, how many sales you have made by product and category, day, month or year. The choices are endless. Each statistic is generated into a visual chart which you can access day or night at any time.

Content Management System: A content management system on a web site allows you to edit and make changes without any technical knowledge. It allows you to take control of your web content. Better still, you can delegate the updates to a member of your team! Suddenly your website is always up-to-date, always evolving and always fresh. It is now a useful and cost-effective communications tool for you and your customers. An adminstation area is created which you log into and simply make the changes you want. This keeps all the pre existing styling the same and no one will notice that a non developer is changing the content on your web site.

Database: A database stores information that is on your web site. Whether you are storing products, names, pictures, user names and passwords, they all get stored on a database.