Blog = Web-Log, a system to allow a n administrator or site owner to quickly add articles without having their webmaster upload the new webpages.
Wiki = a tool for user-generated content that allows visitors (not just the administrator or owner) to add content to a website.
Forum = a discussion community that has dialogue threads on specific topics, allowing user to add data. The forum is usually, but not always, moderated by an overall site owner.
Frontend = user facing part of the website.
Backend = database, system side of the website.
Design = putting all of the elements in a logical manner that meets the product goals. Usually involves artistic talent. In web design, it’s the front end, user facing part of the development.
Development = usually refers to the system, database, or network side of the work in web software.
Listserv = system to email out to a large array of email subscribers who have opted in to receive information about a specialized topic.
CRM = Customer Relationship Management software
Bulliten Board = an online place to post messages, where user generated content is enabled.
Community = basically, same as a bulliten board.
FTP = File Transfer Protocol = a method to upload files, can also be a feature added to website to allow your visitors to share data and upload data files, with the potential for secure log-on to controlled areas of the website.
User Generated Content = the feature that can allow visitors to the website to add comments. Often, but not always, these comments are moderated by the site administrator.
SEO = Search Engine Optimization
SEM = Search Engine Marketing
SMO = Social Media Optimization
CPC = Cost per Click
CPM = Cost per 1,000 views
3-D Rendering = creating a drawing with X,Y,Z dimensions (typical in a CAD system).
4-D Rendering = creating a movie with X,Y,Z, and Time dimensions (typical in a motion graphics or CAD-simulation system).
Animation =motion graphics in a computer drawing (often has a cartoon-like look to it, but not always)
UI= User Interface = the system that allows the software to be interacted with by the human user.
FX = Effects, meaning the special edits done to a photo, graphic illustration, or video to make it extra visually impressive, like fades, wipes, haze, blur, etc.
GUI = Graphical User Interface
Mobile
Wireless
WiFi
Cloud Computing
Server Computer
SaaS = Software as a Service
On-Demand
Hosted Solution
App
HPC = High Performance Computing
Cluster =a group of computers working together
Node = one element of a cluster, in cluster computer, 1 computer of the the cluster group is a node.
RAID = Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
Network
Domain Name Registration
DNS = Domain Name Server