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CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA stands for Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart. A long acronym, but one that simply refers to a basic test that humans can answer quite simply but computers struggle to solve. It is used as a security precaution on many sites.
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CSS
Stands for Cascading Style Sheets and is utilized in website design. CSS is used to establish visual parameters for coded elements of a website that are written in other coding languages, such as HTML or XML. Stated more plainly, CSS primarily relates to how your website looks. Many of the layout and graphical elements on sites are designed using CSS parameters.
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Inbound Marketing
An approach to web-based marketing that emphasizes attracting people to your site, and its products and services, through informational content that is searched and shared.
This is in juxtaposition to paid marketing, which pays money to present ads and similar placements in order to draw people to your site. In an inbound marketing model, organic search traffic is the primary driver of traffic to many key pages.
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Agile Development
Agile Development - sometimes simply called Agile - is a project management style that emphasizes quick, iterative changes to a project to maintain flexibility in the project’s parameters and deliverables.
This is often juxtaposed with Waterfall Development, wherein an entire project is completed in stages before any launch happens. Testing and iterating in Agile often happens during development, with the initial launch happening much earlier in the process to get quicker feedback.
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