Web Design Vocabulary
9th Period
Lesson 11
Active white space- blank areas on a Web page that are placed on purpose
Alignment- when the content of a page has the same alignment
Consistency- to have uniformity from page to page
Grid- a conceptual design that divides a page into rows and columns in order to help the Webmaster structure the layout of a page
Passive white space- the blank areas on a Web page that are a result of incomplete or mismatched shapes
Proximity- refers to how close an element is to another
Repetition- the process of repeating elements throughout a website
Lesson 12
Print-based layout method- takes into account that people are already accustomed to viewing content in printer material in a certain way
Screen-based layout method- viewing information on a screen differently from that of printed material
Lesson 13
Analogous Color- three colors on the color wheel that are side by side
Bit- the smallest unit of information that a computer understands
Color wheel- ordered progression of hues that helps a designer easily understand and select color combinations
Complementary Color- colors that are located opposite from each other on the wheel
Cool Colors- hues that contain blue
Primary Hues- red, green and blue
Secondary Hues- cyan, magenta, and yellow
Shade- darkening a hue
Split-complementary colors- an uneven triangle on the color wheel
Tertiary Hues- red-yellow, green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta, and red-magenta
Tint- lightening a hue
Triad Colors- three colors on the color wheel that have an equal amount of distance between each one
Typography- the act or art of expressing an idea by utilizing typefaces or symbols
Value- lightness or darkness of a hue
Warm Colors- hues that contain red
Web Safe Colors- the colors that all monitors can see
Lesson 14
Clip art- ready-made art that is available to use without having to edit it in any graphics applications
Compression- to make an image smaller
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 graphic
Index color- a maximum of 256 colors
JPEG- (Joint Photographic Experts Group) type of file format that is best used with photo-like graphics
Raster- an image that is made up of pixels
Vector- image based on a mathematical formula