“Help! I have no idea what language would best help me realize my idea’s full potential.” No problem. At Ameronix, we have qualified developers and sales associates on staff whose goals are to help you through the process of deciding what is best for your individual needs. Here is a quick summary of some programming terms and internet shorthand to help build your basic knowledge of web design and development language: Structured Query Language SQL is a language for storing and retrieving relational data from structures called tables. Data is organized into columns according to type length and a variety of other configurable parameters. Some commonly used SQL implementations are MySQL, postgreSQL, and MSSQL. CSS Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) have become the de facto standard for determining the look and feel of well-designed websites. CSS is used to define fonts, colors, layouts and many other aspects relating to the presentation of a website. CSS enables the separation of content from design in order to increase overall site organization and simplify any future website maintenance. CSS is the styling of your webpage design. We do CSS like it’s our job, well because it is. PHP PHP, or hypertext preprocessor, is a server side scripting language that is well suited for web development purposes because it can be embedded in HTML. PHP allows for fully object-oriented programming, and/or traditional procedural programming. PHP can be used in websites to dynamically build and load content acting as a filter, creating web pages from PHP code. JavaScript JavaScript is a client side scripting language. JavaScript can be used to dynamically display content and alter the Document Object Model (DOM) of a webpage. The Document Object Model is the standard for displaying markup languages such as HTML and XML. HTML HTML, or Hypertext Markup Language, is a means to describe how text and images should be displayed in a webpage. HTML consists of tags that determine the structure and appearance of a webpage, such as headings, lists, bullets and links. HTML also denotes text as bold or underlined, as well as paragraph breaks and text size, among other things. It is the structure of your webpage design. Java Java is a programming language that allows users to play online games, chat with friends and watch your favorite TV show online. Java can be developed on one device and essentially be run on any device with the Java Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. Java is compiled into an intermediary byte code format and then interpreted by the JRE on the client machine. Because of this, Java is considered a true cross platform programming language. A Java program can be deployed as a stand-alone desktop application or over the web as an HTML embedded applet. .NET The .NET Framework is Microsoft’s solution to common programming problems. .NET framework is used to develop Windows System Applications and web pages through ASP (Active Server Pages). One of .NET framework’s benefits is its support for multi language syntax. There are .NET libraries for C#, J#, Visual Basic and several other standard languages.