Ingress Online is a Sydney-based web site design and development company specialising in
building high quality, easy to use web sites that can be updated by anyone, anywhere, anytime.
We are located in Glebe in Sydney's Inner West.
Design Services - Print and web
Based on the look of your web site or brochures would you buy from your company?
Ingress Design offers professional corporate branding and design services.
Whether it be professional corporate branding or web site design, we can design a solution that will reflect your image the way you want.
Interactive Business Web sites
Are you after something more than a basic web site?
Do you want to sell your products online? What about polls, blogs or maybe add a forum? We specialise in building interactive web sites to engage your web visitors.
Small / mini / micro sites
Do you already have a web site but need a micro site for a special promotion or event?
Ingress Online can create special smaller sites with added interactivity to capture your visitors for competitions, events or polls.
Glossary
This web site contains references to computer terminology and as such is different to the language of normal conversation.
Have you found a word or phrase you don't understand? Look it up in this glossary.
If it is not here please contact us so we can update it.
Accessibility - Ensuring web sites meet the accessibility guidelines as set out by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the governing body for web standards. http://www.w3c.org
Blog/Journal - A blog is where entries are made in journal style and displayed in a reverse chronological order.
Call to action - Something that will trigger an action from a user. The stronger the better. A strong call to action will get your users clicking.
Chat - Instant messaging or IM is a form of real-time communication between two or more people based on typed text. The text is conveyed via computers connected over a network such as the Internet.
CMS - Content Management System, is a computer software system used to assist its users in the process of content management. A web content management system is a content management system with additional features to ease the tasks required to publish web content to web sites.
Configure - Select features and functionality unique to your site.
Cross browser - Making sure a web site works and looks good across all browsers (eg. Firefox, Opera, Internet Explorer, Netscape Mozilla etc).
Customise - Create a look and feel unique to your site.
End to end - From concept to delivery.
Forum - A facility on the World Wide Web for holding discussions and posting user generated content, or the web application software used to provide the facility.
Hits - A term used to describe the volume of traffic a web site is receiving. Specifically, a 'hit' means a single request from a web browser for a single item from a web page.
Login - A user name and password.
Member or registered user - These people have registered with the site and have a
profile on at least one site.
Password - Unique code that the user creates to gain access to the site.
Reverse engineer - Analysing code not familiar to the developer to discover how it works and interacts with other software.
Search Engine Marketing (SEM) - Search Engine Marketing. Paid advertising on the Internet, such as banner ads, paid links in search engines etc.
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Search Engine Optimisation. Modifying the HTML code so the search engines can index the pages of a web site.
Scalable - Able to grow and expand without much extra development.
User or Unregistered users - This is a visitor to a site who has not registered and is therefore not a member.
User name - Unique name that the user creates to identify themselves online.
Visits - Visits usually break down into the number of pages requested per visit per unique user. That way you know who visits your site, how often they come and how long they stay.