Web design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary 

Active White Space: Blank area on a webpage that is placed on purpose.

Alignment: The contents of a page share the same alignment.

Consistency: To have uniformity from page to page.

Grid: A coneptual design tool that divides a page into rows and columns in order to help the webmaster struvture the layout of a page

Passive white Space: Blank areas on a webpage 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 Web site.

Print-based layout method: A layout that guides the eye starting from the top left corner of the page in a zigzagging pattern from left to right.

Screen-based layout method: A layout method that guides the eyee starting from the top left corner of the page in an effective sweeping motion.

Analogous colors: Threee colors on the color wheel that are side by side.

Bit: The smallest unit of information that a computer understands.

Color Wheel: An ordered progression of hues(or colors) that helps a designer easily understand and select color combinations.

Cool colors: Colors that contain blue.

Primary hues: Red, Green, and blue.

Secondary hues: Cyan,magenta, and yellow.

Shade: Adding black to a hue and darkening it.

Split-Complementary colors: Colors that form a triad on the color wheel.

Tertiary hues: Red-yellow (orange), green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta (violet), and red-magenta.

Tint: Adding white to a hue and lightening it.

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 by utilizing types or symbols.

Value: The definition portion of a value. Each attribute has a value that specifies someting about a HTML tag.

Warm Colors: Colors that contain red.

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

Analogous colors: Threee colors on the color wheel that are side by side.

Bit: The smallest unit of information that a computer understands.

Color Wheel: An ordered progression of hues(or colors) that helps a designer easily understand and select color combinations.

Cool colors: Colors that contain blue.

Primary hues: Red, Green, and blue.

Secondary hues: Cyan,magenta, and yellow.

Shade: Adding black to a hue and darkening it.

Split-Complementary colors: Colors that form a triad on the color wheel.

Tertiary hues: Red-yellow (orange), green-yellow, green-cyan, blue-cyan, blue-magenta (violet), and red-magenta.

Tint: Adding white to a hue and lightening it.

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 by utilizing types or symbols.

Value: The definition portion of a value. Each attribute has a value that specifies someting about a HTML tag.

Warm Colors: Colors that contain red.

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

Clip art: Ready-made art that is avaible to use without having to edit it in any graphics application.

Compression:Reduces the file size by compressing the information in the file.

File format:The arrangement in which data is saved in order to display it in a certain way.

GIF: File format used for images.

Icon: Small symbolic graphic.

Index color: The colors that avaible in a GIF file.

JPEG: File format used for images.

Raster: A raster graphic is an image that is made of pixels.

Vector: A vector image is based on a mathematical formula. It uses coordiante to define the shae of an option.