Web Design Vocabulary


J. Maldonado


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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 the document BGCOLOR 

< H1 > Formate a level 1 heading 

< H2 > Formate 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 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

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


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

Container tags-

Document type declaration (DTD) - basically tells the browser what to expect.                                                                                                                                                                              

Empty tags- A type of tag that does not contain text.

HTML- Consists of a series of tags or codes that can be used in a web page to designate of a section of text.

Hypertext- Organization 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 bully by it.

Source code- Just plain text with HTML tags scattered in it.

Tags- codes                           

Unordered list- 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 - the <TR> and <TD> tags that make up the table

 

Button- for the user to click

Check box- are similar to radio buttons in that they are a set of predefined chopioces from whichthe user may make a selection

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

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

Label-                                                     

Password  field-anything that a user types in the password field will be replaced by asterisks (*) so that anyone watching cannot see text

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

Querystring- commonly includes fields added to a base URL by a Web browser or other client application, for example as part of an HTML form.

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

Text area-is a large space in which the user can type his or hers comment

Text box- form element is a box into whicht he user can text key