Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary

By: Steven Nguyen

< HTML > : Begin the HTML page.

< HEAD > : Begin the heading of the document.

< TITLE > : Designate the title of the page.

< BODY > : Begin the body of the document.   Attributes: BGCOLOR

< 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.   Attributes: ALIGN

< 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

                FACE, COLOR

< A > Designate a hyperlink

         HREF, TARGET, NAME

< IMG > Designate an image

              SRC, ALT, HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN, BORDER

< TABLE > Designate an HTML table

                   BORDER, WIDTH, CELLPADDING, CELLSPACING

< TR > Designate a table row

            BGCOLOR

< TD > Designate a table cell

            COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWSPAN

< TH > Designate a table heading

< FRAMESET > Designate a frames page

                           COLS, ROWS

< FRAME > Designate a frame within a frames page

                    SRC, NAME

< NOFRAMES > Designate code that will be displayed if frames are not supported

< FORM > Designate the start of a form

                  ACTION, METHOD

< INPUT > Designate a form element

                  NAME, TYPE, VALUE

< SELECT > Designate a pull down menu

                      NAME

< OPTION > Designate an item in a pull-down menu

                     VALUE

< TEXTAREA > Designate a text area to insert text

                           NAME, ROWS, COLS

Lesson 7

Attribute- An addition to an HTML tag that is used to modify its properties

Container tags- Tags that work in pairs, usually with some other text or HTML between them.

Document type declaration (DTD)- Tells the browser what type of document to expect.

Empty tags- Codes that does not contain text.

HTML- Hypertext Markup Language; a series of tags or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributes of a section of text.

Hypertext- Organization of units of information that can be connected with links.

Ordered list- Used for items whose order does matter; has numbers instead of bullets.

Source code- The HTML code.

Tags- Codes.

Lesson 8

Absolute URL: one which the protocol and Web server name is used

External Link: links to documents that reside on Web sites other than the one you are creating.

Hyperlink: links to other Web pages.

Internal link: links that are used to navigate between the pages of one site

Intrapage link: a link within the one website

Link: a pointer to a document or file somewhere on the web

Relative URL: one in which the document being linked to is described relative to another

Thumbnail: a small image representation of a larger image.

Lesson 9

Cell- The area created by the intersection of a row and column

Container- A page that will hold frames, such as the navigation bar and a main window

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: a form element that triggers the submittion of data

Check box: are similar to radio buttons in that there are a set of predefined choices form which only the user may make a selection; The user is allowed to make more than one option.

Form: An element on a webpage that is used to collect data form a webpage user

Hidden field: Allows a value to be passed from the form to the page that is specified in the ACTION attribute without the knowledge of the Web user

Label: text that precedes each <INPUT> tag.

Password field: a box into which anything the user types with asteriks

Pull-down menu: also called drop-down list, are used when you do not want the user to type his or her own data

Querystring: A portion at the end of the url when form data is submitted through the GET method

Radio button: a type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options from which to choose; the user is allowed to choose one option

Text area: A larger space in which a user can type his or her comments

Text box: A box into which the user can key text.