MCP (Model Context Protocol)
An open standard for connecting AI assistants to outside tools and data in a consistent way. It matters to businesses because it is how an assistant might one day query your booking system directly.
Glossary
Learn about the technology that supports your online activities with our glossary. It will help you understand terms like domain name, hosting software, mobile apps, web terminologies, digital marketing, and more.
MDM (Mobile Device Management)
The administration of mobile devices, such as smartphones, tablets, and laptops, used by businesses.
Meta Data
Information placed in the section of an HTML document, providing details about the web page, such as its description, keywords, author of the document, and viewport settings.
Meta Description
A brief summary of a web page’s content that appears below the title in search results. A well crafted meta description can influence click through rates from search results.
Meta Tags
HTML tags that provide metadata about a web page, including its title, description, and keywords. Including meta title and meta description tags in the code of a web page to…
Metasearch Engine
A metasearch engine is a system that combines information from multiple search engines to give complete and relevant answers to a query. It doesn’t have its own database but…
Micro-animations
Small, subtle animations used in web design to enhance user interaction, offering visual feedback and guiding users through their interactions with a website.
Microdata
An older way of marking up facts, written as attributes on the HTML itself rather than in a separate block. Still understood, but JSON-LD is now the safer choice.
Mobile App Development
Definition : Refers to the process of planning, developing, testing, and launching a mobile application. Developing a mobile app for e commerce, hotel, restaurant or real estate.
Mobile App Glossary
A comprehensive list of terms and definitions related to mobile applications, providing clarity and understanding of the various concepts and terminology in the field.
Mobile Cloud Apps
Mobile applications that are built to store and process data in the cloud rather than on the mobile device itself.
Mobile First
Refers to a mode of web development that prioritizes design for mobile device use. Designing websites with mobile devices as the primary consideration.
Mobile Publisher
Mobile app developers, owners, and people or companies that redistribute native apps through an app store.
Mobile Push Notifications
Messages that pop up on a mobile device to communicate information from an app, even when the app is not in use.
Mobile SEO
Mobile SEO is the practice of optimizing a website for mobile devices, ensuring a seamless user experience and high search engine visibility on mobile search results. Implementing…
Mobile-First Web Design
An approach where designing a website starts with the mobile version first, which is then adapted to larger screens, reflecting the importance of mobile accessibility in modern…
Mobile-Friendly Website
A website designed to display correctly on mobile devices and tablets, offering easy navigation, fast loading times, and an optimal user experience across all devices.
Model Drift
When a model gets worse over time because the world moved on and it did not. A pricing or demand model trained two years ago quietly stops matching how customers behave now.
Multi-Platform App Development
Apps developed to target more than one platform, using a single programming language to do so, providing flexibility and wider reach for the app.
Multimodal
An AI that handles more than one kind of input — text and images together, say, or audio and video. It is why you can now photograph a menu and ask an assistant what is in a dish.
MySQL
A popular database system included in hosting packages, often used for a variety of web applications. MySQL is commonly used in conjunction with PHP for web development.
Native Apps
Native application developed for use on a particular platform or device, such as iOS or Android. Interacts with and takes advantage of operating system features and other software…
Navigation
Navigation in web design refers to the system that enables users to move around a website and access different pages or sections.
Neural Network
A system of simple connected units, loosely inspired by the brain, that learns patterns from examples rather than following rules somebody wrote. Nearly all modern AI is built on one.