Web Design Glossary

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A

Accessibility (Web)
Accesskey
Alt Attribute
Alt Text
Alternate Stylesheet
Anti-alias
Attribute
Authoring Tool

B

Backward Compatible
Breadcrumbs
Browser

C

Cascade
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)
Child
Click Here
Color Contrast
Color Saturation
Content Management System
Control Structures

D

Data Table
Declaration
Deliverable
Dithering
Dots Per Inch (DPI)

E

Electronic and Information Technology (EIT)
Element
Equivalent

F

File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
Flash
Font Element
Font-size
Frames

G

GIF
Granularity
GUI

H

Headings
Hierarchy
Horizontal Scrolling
Hue
HyperText Markup Language (HTML)

I

If Structure
If...else Structure
Image Map
Inheritance
Inquiry
Iterative Design

J

Java
JavaScript
Journaled Session
JPEG

K

Keyword
Kludge

L

Label Element
Labels
Leading
Line-box
Line-height
Lines Per Inch
Liquid Design
Local Navigation
Look and Feel
Lorem Ipsum
Lynx

M

Margin
Markup
Multimedia
MySQL

N

Navigation
News Aggregator
Non-replaced Element

O

On Screen Keyboard
Operators

P

Padding
Paper Prototype
PHP
Pixel
Pixels Per Inch (PPI)
Plug-in
Pluralistic Walkthrough
Portable Document Format (PDF)
Portable Network Graphics format (PNG)
Preferred Stylesheet
Primary Navigation
Property
Prototype

Q

Questionnaire
Quirks Mode

R

Rapid Prototyping
Readability
Relative Sizing
Replaced Element
RSS

S

Samples Per Inch (SPI)
Sans Serif
Saturation
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
Scanning
Screen Snapshots
Serif
Skip Navigation
Spacer Images
Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML)
Statement (Rule)
Storyboard
Structure

T

Tabular Information
Tag
Tag Line
Task Scenario
Template
Text Equivalent
Text Only Browser

U

Universal Design
Usability
Usability Lab
Usability Testing
User Agent
User Interface Markup Language (UIML)

V

Valid HTML
Validation
Value
Variable
Veranda
Vertical-align
Voice XML

W

Web Standards
Website
While Structure
White Space
Wireless Application Protocol (WAP)
World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

X

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)
Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Extensible Style Language (XSL)

Y

Your Mileage May Vary

Z

Zip