Monday, April 15, 2002		Bits & Bytes

Microsite: Also called a minisite, a microsite is a separate page of a Website that has a separate URL than its home page and is used to provide information about and/or promote something that is related to the home page. For example, a museum's Website may have a link to a microsite with information about a special exhibition the museum is running. Microsites often are temporary Websites that are removed from Web servers once the promotion is over or the information is no longer relevant.

WCA: Short for Web clipping application, an application that allows users to extract static information from a Web server and load the data onto a Web-enabled PDA. The display screens of PDAs are too small to adequately display Web pages the same way they are seen on PC screens, and wireless modems are slower than wired modems (with bandwidth of 8 KBPS, compared to the 14 KBPS bandwidth of wired modems from the early days of the Internet).