Web design terminology beginning with the letter E

E-Commerce

E-commerce, or electronic commerce, is a catch all term to describe the many web based or online methods of conducting business.

E-mail

Electronic mail.

Emoticons

The collection of ASCII keyboard characters that roughly appear to represent various facial expressions. Otherwise known as smileys. :)

Encryption

Encryption is the term applied to the various methods of encoding data so that it cannot be read by third parties. Web based credit card transactions are generally encrypted.

Eudora

A popular shareware email program.