Web Design Glossary
A
Accessibility
Accessibility is the degree to which that Web site is usable, traditionally this is considered in the context of web browsers and people with disabilities such as visually impaired people using screen readers, who therefore cannot take advantage of visual or graphical cues, colour blind people, who cannot distinguish between page elements of different colours but the same intensity, or people who are physically impaired, who perhaps cannot easily manipulate a mouse to click on small areas. In recent years, with a greater focus on web standards and multiple browsing devices, the term has taken on a slightly wider meaning and is now usually considered in the wider context of useability - accessibility is an issue for all users, not just those normally considered disabled, and outside just the standard web browser. For example, use of small fonts can make large blocks of text difficult to read even for those with normal eyesight, and users today are far more likely to be accessing a website using their PDA or phone or even TV.See also: Useability, Web Standards, WAI and WCAG
External links: W3C Accessibility Page, Jaws Screen Reader, Accessibility Services, Google Accessible Search
Agent
See also: User Agent, RobotAJAX
Apache
See also: Web ServerApplet
See also: JavaApplication Server
See also: Web ServerAtom
Attribute
Aural
Azimuth
B
block level elements
Blog
An online diary or journal, usually consisting of regular, short, time-stamped posts from one author (though sometimes more than author and/or longer posts). One of the key features is that readers can interact with the author through some sort of comment system on the blog itself, or by commenting in their own blog. The network of blogs is known as the blogosphere.See also: Atom, RSS
boolean
breadcrumb
brightness
Browser
See also: User AgentC
candidate recommendation
cascade
Cascading Style Sheets
A language for the Web to define the look and feel of a Web page. Using a <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheet">CSS</acronym> stylesheet it is possible to define the visual look of web page elements - including the fonts, colours, borders, spacing and positioning. It also allows for different styles to be used for different output media, for example print or handheld devices. Earlier versions of <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</acronym> mixed information about presentation (ie. the style) with information about content (ie. the text on the page), <acronym title="Cascading Style Sheet">CSS</acronym> allows a 'seperation of concerns' which is considered good practice not only in web design and development but in the wider world of software engineering.See also: HTML, XHTML, Web Standards, CSSFirstSteps, CSSForPageLayout, CSSAdvancedTopics
External links: W3C CSS Home Page, CSS Discuss Wiki, CSS Beginner's Guide, CSS Zen Garden, Position Is Everything
CDATA
Used in an XML document to demarcate areas of the document which contain character data - ie. are not to be parsed as XML.CDF
CGI
child
CMS
comment
content
CSS
See: Cascading Style SheetsD
declaration
deprecated
In the context of web standards, applies to elements which are planned to be removed from a future version of the standard but are currently still valid.DHTML
doctype
DOM
DPI
DTD
E
element
em
embedded style
entry page
ex
exit page
external style sheet
F
fantasy
favicon
favorites icon
fixed width layout
font
font category
font family
font style
font weight
G
GIF
H
.htaccess
HTML
See also: XHTML, CSS, HTMLFirstStepsHTTP
hue
hyperlink
hypertext
I
image map
inheritance
inline elements
inline style
J
JPEG
JPEG
JPG
Shortened version of JPEG commonly used to identify JPEG files by the addition of a three letter extension, eg. picture.jpgJSON
K
kerning
L
leading
liquid layout
M
markup
marquee
master family
monospace
N
nesting
non - breaking space
P
parent
permalink
pica
pixel
pixel (typography)
PNG
point
property
pseudo element
proposed recommendation
pseudo class
R
recommendation
replaced element
resolution
Robot
RSS
rule
S
sans serif
saturation
schema
script
selector
semantic markup
serif
shortcut menu
SOAP
specification
specificity
style
T
tag
text editor
tracking
typeface
U
universal selector
URI
URL
URN
Useability
user agent
V
valid
validator
W
W3C
WAI
WCAG
Web Browser
See also: User AgentWeb log
Web page
Web Server
Web Standards
well formed
wiki
working draft
WYSIWYG
WYSIWYG editor
X
XHTML
XML
XSL
XSLT
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