Web Design Vocabulary
Mrs. Scott
9th period Web Design
Lesson 11
Clip art – is ready-made art that is available to use without having to edit it in any graphics application
Compression – to make smaller, in the sense that the amount of information is reduced
File format – the arrangement in which data is saved in order to display it in a certain way.
GIF – a file format that can be viewed equally well on every kind of computer
Icon- a small symbolic graphics, can be used as a part of the user’s interface
Index color – reduced color mapping of 8-bit or less
JPEG – stands for Join Photographic Experts Group
Raster – An image that is made up of pixels
Vector – based on a mathematical formula
Lesson 12
Print-based layout method- The first method, which takes in account that people are already accustomed to viewing content in printed material in a certain way. When you read a book, for example, your eye automatically goes to the top left corner of the page and you begin to read from left to right.
Screen-based layout method- The second method of guiding the eye, on a screen a user scans the content in effective sweeping motions, rather than the traditional method
Lesson 13
Analogous colors – Are groups of colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel with one being the dominant color, which tends to be a primary or secondary color, and two on either side complementing which tend to be tertiary
Bit – a small piece, part or quantity of something
Color wheel – a circle with different colored sectors used to show the relationship between colors
Complementary colors – colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum, such as red and green or blue and orange, that when combined in the right proportions, produce white light
Cool colors – white, gray, and green
Primary hues – Any of a group of colors from which all other colors can be obtained by mixing
Secondary hues – Color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors
Shade – a color especially with regard to how light or dark it is or as distinguished from on nearly like it
Split-complementary colors – Scheme is a variation of the complementary color scheme
Tertiary hues – are a combination of full saturation of one primary color plus half saturation of another primary color and none of a third primary color
Tint – a shade or variety of color
Triad colors – three colors equally spaced around the color wheel
Typography – the work of setting and arranging types and of printing from them
Value – the lightness or darkness of tones or colors
Warm colors – red, yellow, browns, and tan
Lesson 14
1. Active white space- blank areas on a web page that are placed on purpose
2. Alignment – the content of a page has the same alignment
3. Consistency – to have uniformity from page to page
4. Grid – a conceptual design tool that divides a page into rows and columns in order to help the webmaster structure the layout of a page
5. Passive white space – the result of incomplete and mismatched shapes
6. Proximity- refers to how close one element is to another
7. Repetition – the process of repeating elements throughout a web site
1. What are three elements that can be used to carry a theme through a Web site?
Color, graphics, and layout.
2. How can the lack of consistency confuse a user?
They will not feel comfortable, because everything will keep changing. This will infuriate the user and they will most likely not come back to the website.
3. Why is a home page sometimes designed differently from its subpages?
To distinguish the home page from the rest of the site.
4. What feature in Dreamweaver helps you to easily repeat elements throughout a Web site?
Repetition