Web Design Vocabulary

Web Design Vocabulary 

Yulisa C

< 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 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 tot text as a pparagraph ALIGN

< I > Format the text using italics

< B > Format the text with boldface

< UL > Creat an unordered list

< OL > Creat 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, ATL, HEIGHT, WIDTH, ALIGN, BORDER 

< TABLE > Designate a HTML table BORDER, WIDTH, CELL PADDING ,CELLSPACING

< TR > Designate a table row BGCOLOR

< TD > Designate a table cell COLSPAN, ALIGN, VALIGN, BGCOLOR, ROWAPAN

< 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

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

Container tags - work in pairs usually with some other text or HTML in between them

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

Empty tags - doesnt not contain text

HTML - (Hypertext Markup Language) consist of a series of tags or codes that can be used in a Web page to designate attributed of a section of text

Hypertext - organisation of units of information that can be connected with links, had already been around for a long time

Ordered list - each item has a number instead of a bullet by it

Source code - (HTML code) since it is the source of what is eventually displayed on the screen

Tags (codes)- work behind the scene to build what a user eventually sees in a Web page

Unordered list - good for listing items whose order is not important

Value - specifies that the paragraph be aligned in the center of the page

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

External link- links to documents that reside on Web sites other than one you creating

Hyperlink - links to other Web pages

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

Intrapage link - link within one

Link- alsp be created between sections of the same Web page  

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

Thumbnail- a small image representation of a larger image

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

Container - holds the frames

Frameset - the name given to a group of frames that act together to make up on Web page.

Nested - theandtags that make up the table

Check box - similar to radio button in that there set of predefined choices from which the user may make a selection

Form - is an element on a Web page that is used to collect data from a Web site user

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

Label

Password field - anything that user types in a password field will be replaced by asterisks (*)

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

Querystring - we call the URL ( its simply a part in the URL)

Radio button - are another type of form element where the user is presented with a set of options from which to choose from

Text area - large space in which a user type his or her comment

Text box - form element is a box into which the user can key text