Here is our comprehensive reference guide to the most common adult web jargon! Your very own Adult Webmaster Dictionary!

Gallery
A gallery refers to a web page where several small images are laid out row by row, side by side on the document as if they were hanging on a virtual wall. Each gallery image is sized small enough so that most of them are viewable in the browser window. These smaller images are called thumbnails. Each Thumbnail image is hyperlinked so that when a surfer clicks on it, it leads to its corresponding full size image. Most webmasters who create galleries do so in order to submit them to Thumbnail Gallery Post sites, or TGPs. Cozy's TGP Listings.

Glitch
A glitch is a problem in either software or hardware that results in a lack of functionality. Most glitches are temporary but some are almost impossible to fix. An example of a glitch would be one of Internet Explorer's many security vulnerabilites.

Hacktivism
Some hackers do it for a cause. When hackers bombarded the RIAA website with denial of service attacks, they were doing it to protest the music industry's seemingly harsh stance on P2P mp3 traders.

Hit Counter
Hit Counter or Stat Counter. Tool used to track the number of surfers that click onto your adult site. Usually provides other useful stats like the number of return visitors, geographic locations, weekly-monthly totals and so on. A stat counter is pretty much a glorified hit counter. Most pre-made counters made for adult webmasters collect more data than just basic site visits. These -usually graphic- counters log referring sites, unique and raw hits, countries sending traffic and even the time of day the hits were created. All of this data is known as site statistics.

Hits
Number of times your page was viewed. Example: My main page got a total of 1500 hits yesterday.

Hot-Linking
When someone links to an image on your server to display it on their site instead of linking to the image on their own server. Draining the bandwith of the party that has the image on their server.

HTML
HTML or HyperText Markup Language, is used to author web pages. HTML is the way that you can put information so that everyone can see on the web. Without HTML, you wouldn't be able to design web pages.

Hypertext Link
Hypertext is the combination of units of information into attached relationships that can be manipulated by the user. Hypertext is part of the language of webpages, HTML. Hypertext Markup Language is the code that makes up web pages. A hypertext link is simply a command enclosed in tags that when clicked upon, take the user to another site or another page on the web.

Impression
The number of times a file is called from a server, such as a banner or web page.

In-Line Link
An inline link is a text or graphic hyperlink that takes the user to another place on the same web page they are presently on. For instance, if your page contains a lot of text and you want to direct surfers to particular sections of that text, you can do so with an inline link. An inline link -when clicked on for an example- could take the viewer to certain chapters of an erotic story.

Incentives
A brick-and-mortar company will offer stock options to their long-term employees. Corporate salesmen work harder for bonuses such as free trips to high sellers. These special goodies are known in the business world as incentives. Adult sponsors offer incentives to their more productive affiliates. Some will give away free video games or hardware to high sellers. Others will increase the payments to webmasters who garner big profits.

Index
Index is another one of those words that have been reconfigured for Internet culture. The main page of a domain must point to an index.html file or it won't show up. Search engines will add you to their database and refer to the action as indexing.

Instant Message (IM)
Provides the ability to see if users are online or offiline and exchange messages across a providers network (IRC, ICQ, AIM, etc).

Inventory
Inventory can be either a noun or a verb. As a noun, an inventory is your collection of business-related stuff. For the adult webmaster their inventory would be the whole of their content. When you go through your site and count/catalog your content, you are performing an inventory.

Invisible Frameset
Frame pages nest two or three pages into one window. The sizes and positions of those different pages can all be manipulated so some reside at the top in horizontal headers or on the left as always-on menus. Most times it's easy to recognize a frame page because one can see the border of each individual page in the browser window. There is a tag one can use to make those borders disappear or be invisible.

IP Address
Internet Protocol Address. Unique series of numbers that identifies a network, domain, or computer from all other computers on the Internet.

IRC (Internet Relay Chat)
IRC stands for Internet Relay Chat. It's a chat system that runs on its own servers and through networks. It's an older form of chat that came before such instant message programs as ICQ. Nevertheless, it's pretty popular among porny geeks. Most adult webmasters communicate on IRC through a software program called mIRC.

ISP
Your Internet Service Provider. Company that is offering you access to the internet.

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