Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary

Joliana R.

Memorial Highschool

Port Arthur Tx

< 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   

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