PowerCMS - Glossary

Anchor: Appointed location inside HTML document, uses <a> tag. It can act as a link too.
Animated banner: A series of individual gif images can be saved within a special animation application so that when they're combined together they form a short sequence of 'what appears to be' moving images. The advertising banners seen at the top of many commercial web pages are often animated gifs, which are designed to catch your attention. Animation gives life to Web sites by displaying a variety of moving objects in your browser screen: images, words, and pictures, to name a few (although having too many animated images can be annoying). There are certain software programs that allow Web developers to create animated images, commonly known as animated GIFs.
ANSI (American National Standards Institut): The American National Standards Institute or ANSI (pronounced /ˈænsiː/) is a private non-profit organization that oversees the development of voluntary consensus standards for products, services, processes, systems, and personnel in the United States. The organization also coordinates U.S. standards with international standards so that American products can be used worldwide. For example, standards make sure that people who own cameras can find the film they need for them anywhere around the globe. ANSI accredits standards that are developed by representatives of standards developing organizations, government agencies, consumer groups, companies, and others. These standards ensure that the characteristics and performance of products are consistent, that people use the same definitions and terms, and that products are tested the same way. ANSI also accredits organizations that carry out product or personnel certification in accordance with requirements defined in international standards. The organization's headquarters are in Washington, DC. ANSI's operations office is located in New York City.
ASCII character set: American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), pronounced /ˈæski/[1] is a character encoding based on the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character encodings — which support many more characters than did the original — have a historical basis in ASCII. Historically, ASCII developed from telegraphic codes and its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on ASCII began in 1960. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963,[2] a major revision in 1967, and the most recent update in 1986. Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both reordered for more convenient sorting (ie, alphabetization) of lists, and added features for devices other than teleprinters. Some ASCII features, including the 'ESCape sequence', were due to Robert Bemer. ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing, mostly obsolete control characters that affect how text is processed, and 94 are printable characters (excluding the space).