Web design Vocabulary 

S.Thayer 

Memorial High School 

11th Grade Web Design

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  • HTML Cheat Sheet 

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  • Unit 3 Vocabulary 

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< HTML >                Begin the HTML page 
 
< HEAD >                Begin the heading of the document
 
< TITLE >                Designate the title of the page
< BODY >                Begin the body of teh document 
 
< H1 >                      Format a level 1 heading
 
< H2 >                      Format a level 2 heading
 
< H3 >                      Format a level 3 heading
 
< H4 >                      Format a level 4 heading 
 
< H5 >                      Format a level 5 heading 
 
< H6>                       Format a level 6 heading 
 
< BR>                      Add a line break 
 
< P >                       Set apart a group of text as a paragraph 
 
< I >                         Format the text using Italics 
 
< B >                       Format the text with boldface
 
< UL >                    Create an unordered list
 
< OL >                    Create an ordered list
 
< LI>                       Specify a list item
 
< FONT >               Specify font Characteristics
 
< A >                       Designate a hyperlink
 
< IMG >                   Desigante an image
 
< TABLE >              Degsinate a HTML table
 
< TR >                     Designate a table row
 
< TD >                     Desigante a table cell
 
< TH >                     Designate a table heading
 
< FRAMESET >      Designate a frame page
 
< FRAME >             Designate a frame withina frames page
 
< NOFRAMES >     Designate code that will be displayed if frames are not suportes  
 
< FORM >               Designate the start of a form 
 
< INPUT >               Designate a form element
 
< SELECT>            Designate a pull-down menu
 
< OPTION >           Designate an item in a oull-down menu
 
< TEXTAREA>      Designate a text area to insert text   
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Lesson 7
 
Attribute-an addition to an HTML tag that us used to modify its properties
 
Container tags- a basic set of tags that come in pairs 
 
Document type Declaration-tells the broweser what type of document to expect
 
Empty tags- elements with no content
 
HTML- tags or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attrbutes of a section of text
 
Hypertext- organization of units of information that can be connected with links
 
Ordered list-has a number instead of a bullet 
 
Source code-(HTML code) the source is eventually displayed on the screen
 
Tags- (codes) work behind the scences to build what a user eventually sees on a web page
 
Unordered list-listeng those items that arnt important, each item on the list should have a bullet
 
Value- specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page
 
Lesson 8
 
Absolute URL- one in which protocol and Web server name is used
 
External link- links to documents that reside on Web sites other than th eon eyou are creating
 
Hyperlink-links to other webpages
 
Internal link- Links that are used to nagivate between the pages of one site.
 
Intrapage link-a link within one page.
 
Link-a pointer to a documentor file somewhere on the web.
 
Relative URL- one in which th edocument being linked to is described relative to another location
 
Thumbnail- a small image representation of a largerExternal
 
link- links to documents that reside on Web sites other than th eon eyou are creating
 
Lesson 9
 
cell - an area created by the intersection of a row and a column
 
container - i could not find this deffinition in the book 
 
frameset - the name given to a group of frames that act together to make up one web page
 
nested-  opening a new tag before closing the first one 
 
Lesson 10 
 
button- where  the user clicks 
 
check box-  a set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selection 
 
form- an element on a web that is used to collect data from a web sit euser
 
hidden field- allows value to be passed from the form to the page that is specified i the ACTION attribute without th eknologe of the web user
 
password field- where the user put sa password and anything typed would be replaced with asterrisks(*)
 
pull down menu-(drop-down list) used when you dont want user to type in their own data
 
querystring- appended to the URL after question mark
 
radio button-another type of form element where the user is presented with a set of option from which to choose
 
text area-a large space in which a user can type tjeir comments
 
text box-  a box into which the user can key text
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