Web Design Terminology Glossary

A

• accessibility
• affiliate program
• agent
• AJAX
• anchor
• anti-aliasing
• applet
• associate program
• attribute
• aural
• azimuth

B

• backlink
• bad neighborhood
• bandwidth
• below the fold
• block-level elements
• blog
• bookmark
• boolean
• bounce rate
• breadcrumb
• brightness
• browser

C

• candidate recommendation
• CAPTCHA
• cascade
• Cascading Style Sheets
• case-sensitive
• CDATA
• CDF
• CGI
• child
• CMS
• comment
• comment - Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
• comment - XML
• container element
• content
• continuous media
• conversion
• conversion funnel
• conversion rate
• cookie
• CSS
• CSS Framework
• cursive

D

• declaration (CSS)
• declaration statement (XML)
• dedicated server
• deprecated
• design
• DHTML
• dither
• DNS
• doctype
• DOM
• domain
• domain name
• DPI
• DTD

E

• ecommerce
• elastic layout
• element
• em
• embedded style
• entry page
• EPUB
• ex
• exit page
• Extensible Markup Language
• external link
• external style sheet

F

• fantasy
• favicon
• favorites icon
• first visit
• fixed width layout
• focal point
• fold
• font
• font category
• font family
• font stack
• font style
• font weight
• FQDN

G

• GIF
• graceful degradation

H

• heuristics
• hexadecimal
• hit
• HSL
• .htaccess
• HTML
• HTML code
• HTML codes
• html tag
• HTTP
• HTTPS
• hue
• hyperlink
• hypertext

I

• image map
• impression
• inbound link
• inheritance
• inline elements
• inline style
• internal link
• IP
• IP address
• IRI

J

• JPEG
• JPG

K

• kerning
• keywords

L

• LAMP
• leading
• link
• link farm
• liquid layout
• long tail
• lorem ipsum

M

• MAMP
• markup
• marquee
• master family
• meta data
• meta tag
• MIME type
• minify
• monospace

N

• natural search
• nesting
• new visitor
• non-breaking space
• normal flow

O

• organic search
• outbound link

P

• paged media
• pageview
• parent
• PDF
• permalink
• pica
• pixel
• pixel (typography)
• placeholder text
• PNG
• podcast
• point
• progressive enhancement
• prolog
• property
• proposed recommendation
• pseudo-element
• pseudo-class

R

• recommendation
• repeat visitor
• replaced element
• resolution
• RGB
• RSS
• RSS scraping
• rule

S

• sans-serif
• saturation
• schema
• script
• selector
• semantic markup
• seo
• serif
• SGML
• shortcut menu
• Simple Object Access Protocol
• singleton (HTML)
• singleton (web analytics)
• SOAP
• specification
• specificity
• Standard Generalized Markup Language
• streaming media
• style
• subdomain

T

• tag
• text editor
• TLD
• TLDN
• tracking
• typeface

U

• universal selector
• URI
• URL
• URN
• usability
• user agent

V

• valid
• validate
• visit
• visitor
• void element

W

• W3C
• WAMP
• web application
• web designer
• web developer
• web log
• web page
• web server
• web standards
• well-formed
• white space
• wiki
• wireframe
• working draft
• WYSIWYG
• WYSIWYG editor

X

• x-height
• XHTML
• XML