Web Design Vocabulary

Kevin Tran

Web Design-Period 2

Web Design Vocabulary

Lesson 1

Backbone- if a packet has to make a destination from countries, it will most likely make its way from one network to another until it reaches one of the large transmission lines

Checksum- a number that allows the receiving end of the packet to determine if any errors occurred in the transmission of the data

Computer Network- when 2 or more computers are connected together in a way that allows them to communicate to each other in a way

Domain Name System- associate names with IP addresses

Header- part of what TCP does is to create a collection of information

Internet- a collection of computer networks that communicate with each other

Internet Corporation for assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)-

Internet Protocol (IP) - defines how data is routed over the Internet

Internet Society (ISOC) - a nonprofit group that is the central organizations for the groups that are responsible for the standards for internet infrastructure

IP address- an Internet address

IP packet- a typical packet created by TCP

Local Area Network (LAN) - the packets goes out on the network, in most cases the network starts out in a network called LAN.

Name Server- when a user enters an address in an email address

Network- computer network

Packet- in a packet-switched network, data is sent through the network in small pieces

Packet switched network- The Internet is a type of network

Protocol- collection of computer networks that communicate with each other using a common set of rules

Router- examines the packets and decides the path that each packet should travel

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) - defines how data is broken down into packets at the sending end and reassembled at the receiving end.

World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) - developed dozens of technical specifications for the Web

Lesson 2

Client-server operation- an operation in which the work is divided between the server and the user’s computer

Client-side operation- when a file arrives, it is up to the browser to interpret the contents of the file it received (computer, client, does the work)

Cluster- the Web Server must be powerful computer or even a group of computers

HTML (Hyper Test Markup Language) – the set of codes that allow text to be formatted for display on a Web page

Plug-in- browsers allow additional capability to be installed through software

Server-side operation- looking for an appropriate file and sending it to the Web browser (server does the work)

Streaming-with real audio, a computer user can hear audio as it is downloaded into the computer

Telecommuting- working from home using a computer to do your work and collaborate with others

Web browser- the primary tool that a computer user needs to access the resources of the World Wide Web

Web server- a computer that runs special software that serves Web pages and related files

Lesson 3

Document toolbar- you can change page views, title the page, and access short cuts

Document window- the primary workspace for creating and editing Web pages

Font face- a set of characters (letters and numbers) that have a defined style

Heading- a headline that displays larger and bolder than regular text and has extra white space above and below it

Horizontal Space- the space to the right and left of an image

Menu Bar- all of Dreamweaver’s commands can be accessed

Panel- a small window that contains commonly used tools that is docked at the top, bottom, or right side of the Dreamweaver interface

Sans serif front- a font that has no caps on its ends and has an appearance of being plain

Serif font- a font that has caps on its ends and has an appearance of being fancy

Title bar- displays the file name and the title of the document that is currently open.

Vertical Space- the space to the top and bottom of an image

Visual interface- a set of menus and tools used to build a Web page in place of writing code

Web safe colors- colors that are consistent on all computer monitors- across all browsers

Lesson 11

Active white space- blank areas on a Web page that are placed on purpose

Alignment- the content of a page has the same alignment

Consistency- to have uniformity from page to page

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

Passive white space- the blank areas on a Web page that are a result of incomplete or mismatched shapes

Proximity- how close one element is to another

Repetition- similar to consistency, is the process of repeating elements throughout a Web page

Lesson 12

 Print-based layout method- takes into account that people are already accustomed to viewing content in primed material in a certain way

 Screen based layout- a user scans the content in an effective sweeping motion

Lesson 13 

Analogous colors- 3 colors on the color wheel side by side

Bit- the smallest unit of information that a computer understands

Color wheel- an ordered progression of hues that helps a designer easily understand and select colors combinations

Complementary colors- colors that are located opposite from each other on the color wheel

Cool colors- hues that contains blue colors

Primary hues- red, green, blue

Secondary hues- cyan, magenta, yellow

Shade- darkening a hue

Split-complementary colors- form an uneven triangle on the color wheel

Tertiary hues- red-yellow, green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta, red-magenta

Tint- lightening a hue

Triad colors- 3 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 type of faces or symbols

Value- referring lightness or darkness

Warm colors- hues that contains red colors

Lesson 14

Clip art- a ready-made art that is available to use without having to edit it in any graphics applications

Compression- to make smaller, in the sense that the amount of information 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 graphic

Index color- GIF can contain a maximum of 256 colors

JPEG- used best for pho-like graphics

Raster- an image that is made up of pixels

Vector- an image based on a mathematical formula